Marijac

Marijac is the pseudonym of Jacques Dumas (* 1908 ; † 1995 ), a French comic artist and editor of magazines.

During the Second World War, Marijac founded the magazine Le Corbeau déchaîné for the Resistance in Auvergne , in which he published the adventures of the three heroes Advokat, Piceau and La Torpille based on real characters with the same nicknames. The short stories made fun of the occupiers and portrayed the war as an absurd farce.

After the war, the magazine could be published weekly from 1946 under the name Coq Hardi . In it further episodes of Le trois Mousquetaires du maquis were published, but it also increasingly appeared comics by other authors and illustrators, including Raymond Poïvet and Raymond Cazanave . Marijac wrote dialogue sketches and scenarios that were worked out by various illustrators. He constantly changed the genre and created pirate stories as well as science fiction series, but without creating memorable hero characters. Coq Hardi was sold and discontinued in the late 1950s. Some editions were republished in paperback from 1962 to 1963.

Marijac then brought out Baby-Journal, a magazine for toddlers and other short-term magazines. He founded a publishing house and a graphics studio with little success. His magazine Frimousse again had a circulation of over 200,000 copies in 1972 and existed until 1976.

Awards

In 1979 Marijac received the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême .

Works

• Le trois Mousquetaires du maquis
• Colonel X
• Le Capitaine Fantôme

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• Thierry Groensteen (Ed.): Asterix, Barbarella & Co. History of the comic in the French-speaking area . Somogy Editions D'Art, Paris 2000.