Mix & Remix

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Mix & Remix at the Buchsalon 2011 in Geneva.

Mix & Remix , real name Philippe Becquelin (born April 6, 1958 in Saint-Maurice VS ; † December 19, 2016 ), was a Swiss cartoonist and illustrator . He created numerous caricatures on current affairs, including for L'Hebdo , and he worked for the French-speaking Swiss TV magazine Infrarouge .

Career

Philippe Becquelin, whose father was an avid comic book reader, began drawing as a child. He attended high school in Saint-Maurice, but dropped out of school a year before he graduated from high school . He attended the art school in Sion for six months and in 1984 obtained a diploma in painting from the cantonal art school in Lausanne . Since he realized his pictures together with his wife, who met in the same year, they chose the pseudonym Mix & Remix . After giving up painting, he continued to use this artist name.

Becquelin began working with Frédéric Pajak to illustrate the weekly L'Eternité ; this appeared for six months. The influence of Pajak, who saw in him “the only French-speaking Swiss draftsman who knows a language”, brought him to satirical drawing. Becquelin designed the cartoon Histoires mécaniques for the weekly newspaper L'Hebdo from 1992 to 1998 , before drawing on current affairs.

For a job as a warehouse clerk in a plush fabrics -Importgeschäft and in a T-shirt printing company he worked from 1991 to 2001 on the clock tower of Lausanne Notre-Dame cathedral - he called every night, 22-2 am, the time in all four cardinal points. This tradition, which has existed since 1405, goes back to the fire watch : "C'est le guet, il a sonné dix!" - "It's the night watchman, ten has struck!"

He then managed to make a living from drawing. In 1995 he received a sponsorship award from the Canton of Valais and since 1998 has been responsible for an entire page of the newspaper L'Hebdo . He illustrated the Comprendre la Suisse book series for the Lausanne textbook publisher “Éditions Loisirs et Pédagogie” (LEP) ; individual volumes have also been published in German. In 2013 the publisher received the “Democracy Prize” from the New Helvetic Society for this . Since 2013 he has also been drawing for the Sunday edition of Le Matin . Further engagements resulted, among others, for the daily Le Courrier and the Italian weekly Internazionale . In 2016 he was awarded the “Prix du rayonnement” by the Vaudois Cultural Foundation.

Mix & Remix died of pancreatic cancer in 2016 . His family announced his death on the morning of December 20th with one of his cartoons: "You have three months to live." - "Three months?! ... that's long!"

Works (selection)

  • Mekano. Edition Moderne, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-907010-88-4 .
  • Environnement construit , German: Environment and building culture. LEP, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne 2006, ISBN 978-2-606-01208-3 .
  • Institutions politiques suisses , German: Switzerland in sight. Lehrmittelverlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-03713-182-9 .
  • Histoire suisse , German: Off to Switzerland. Lehrmittelverlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-03713-317-0 .
  • Économie suisse , German: up and down. Lehrmittelverlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03713-401-6 .
  • Institutions politiques européennes , German: Europe compact. Lehrmittelverlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03713-590-7 .
  • Géographie de la Suisse , German: City Country Switzerland. Lehrmittelverlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-03713-669-0 .
  • La santé en Suisse , German: Health Switzerland. Lehrmittelverlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03713-679-9 .
  • Les religions et leurs pratiques en Suisse , German: Religions in Switzerland. Lehrmittelverlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03713-689-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Comprendre la Suisse book series on the publisher's website
  2. ↑ «Mix & Remix» is dead . Article in the Tages-Anzeiger on December 20, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mix & Remix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becquelin, Philippe (real name); Mix et remix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cartoonist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Maurice VS
DATE OF DEATH 19th December 2016