Nikita Mandryka

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Nikita Mandryka (born October 20, 1940 in Bizerte , Tunisia , † June 13, 2021 in Geneva ) was a French cartoonist . He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kalkus , Nik , Karl Kruss , Calequsse , Calgus and Kilkoz . In France he was known through the series Concombre Masqué , which tells the absurd adventures of a masked cucumber who lives in a cactus bunker and is friends with a kohlrabi.

Mandryka was able to publish a comic in a magazine as early as 1956. His professional career began in 1964 with a job at Vaillant magazine . From 1965 he drew for pilots . The rejection of an episode of Concombre Masqué by the then editor-in-chief René Goscinny led to the break with Pilote . Goscinny failed to publish the episode in which the cucumber watches stones grow for over ten pages in a Japanese garden. Mandryka then founded the magazine L'Écho des Savanes with Claire Bretécher and Gotlib . In 1979 he became editor-in-chief of Charlie mensuel magazine , which, like Pilote, was published by Dargaud . In 1984 he took over the editorial office at Pilote .

In German appeared from 1997 at Carlsen The planet with no memory , a number of Massimiliano Frezzato , contributed the text to the Mandryka.

Awards

Mandryka received the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême in 1994 at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême .

The asteroid (157747) Mandryka is named after him.

Works

  • 1956 Prosper, Habitant de la Planète Farce
  • 1964 Concombre Masqué
  • 1967 Les Minuscules
  • 1969 Ailleurs
  • 1970 Tranches de Vie (with Gotlib)
  • 1970 Clopinettes (with Gotlib)
  • 1972 Les Adventures génitales de Bitoniot
  • 1974 Le Type au Reuri
  • 1993 Antoine, Camille et Bismuth
  • 1995 Les Aventures Galactiques de Roger Bacon

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mandryka, le père du Concombre masqué, meurt à 80 years. In: Le Figaro. Retrieved June 14, 2021 (French).
  2. ↑ A. Knigge: Everything about comics . Europa Verlag 2004, p. 306
  3. ↑ Nikita Mandryka at the IAU Minor Planet Center (English)
personal data
SURNAME Mandryka, Nikita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calcus (pseudonym); Nik (pseudonym); Kruss, Karl (pseudonym); Calequsse (pseudonym); Calgus (pseudonym); Kilkoz (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bizerte
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2021
Place of death Geneva