Pat Mallet
Pierre André Patrick "Pat" Mallet (* 1941 in Marseille ; † September 30, 2012 in Biarritz ) was a French comic artist .
Life
Pat Mallet had been deaf since he was nine years old.
He studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Paris at the same time as the cartoonists Jean Giraud (Moebius) and Jean-Claude Mézières . Mallet created the adventures of Pegg the Robot and the two goofy Martians Xing & Xot for Spirou , and soon after that another Martian, Zoum , for Pilote . He eventually became a successful cartoonist , devoting his entire career to gag drawings about little green men .
Patrick Mallet drew for the French Paris Match as well as for the German magazines Stern and Die Zeit . From 1970 his little green men appeared in the French magazine lui . In 1972 he received the Grand Prix International de la Caricature in Montreal .
Pat Mallet lived in France . He also worked as a drawing teacher for deaf children.
Web links
- Entry about Mallet in the Lambiek Comiclopedia (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Pat Mallet est décédé , French , accessed October 16, 2012
- ↑ gl-cafe.de: known deaf people
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mallet, Pat |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mallet, Pierre André Patrick (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 2012 |
| Place of death | Biarritz |