Patrick Chappatte

Patrick Chapatte, before 2019

Patrick Chappatte (* 1967 in Karatschi , Pakistan ) is a Swiss cartoonist who works for The New York Times , Le Temps , NZZ am Sonntag and Der Spiegel magazine .

Life

Patrick Chappatte was born the son of a Swiss and a Lebanese . He grew up in Singapore and Switzerland. In 1988 he became a caricaturist for the daily newspaper La Suisse in western Switzerland . His sharp drawings quickly caught on, so that when the hiring of La Suisse became apparent, he switched to L'Hebdo in 1992 . He also drew for Die Weltwoche , which had his caricatures on the front page every week. From 1995 to 1998 he lived in New York , where he worked for The New York Times Book Review and Newsweek . Then he returned to Switzerland. Today he draws for The New York Times , Le Temps , Spiegel and NZZ am Sonntag .

Chappatte publishes in French, English and German. In addition to his caricatures, he produces reportage comics . For example, shortly after the Gaza War in 2009, he visited the Gaza Strip and processed his impressions.

Patrick Chappatte lives in Geneva with his wife, television producer Anne-Frédérique Widmann, and their three children.

Awards

• The Thomas Nast Award 2011 and 2015. Awarded by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC).

Works

• Attention, Chute de Mythes! . ATOZ Editions, 1992.
• En Amérique Latine . Ringier Editions, 1996.
• All's well that ends well . Opinio Verlag, 2000.
• Reports BD . Editions Le Temps, 2002.
• Another world . Globe cartoon / IHT, 2004.
• Les Bons et les Mechants. 2000–2004: Le monde de Bush et la Suisse de Blocher . Editions Le Temps, 2004.
• La vie qu'on mène . Editions Glénat Humor, 2006.
• Globalized . Globe cartoon / IHT, 2007.
• Partly Cloudy . Globe cartoon, 2008.
• Super Contribuable. 2005-2008, des années Bush à Obama . Globe Cartoon / Le Temps, 2008.
• 100 caricatures from the “NZZ am Sonntag” 2002–2012. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03823-783-9 .
• Coupez! 1992-2014: La Suisse, l'Europe et les étrangers. Le Temps, 2014, ISBN 978-2-9700475-6-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Patrick Chappatte. In: Overseas Press Club of America (OPC), accessed May 3, 2012
2. ^ Jean-Martin Büttner: Prudish Americans and German-Swiss with a beard. In: Tages-Anzeiger from May 3, 2012

Web links

• Literature by and about Patrick Chappatte in the catalog of the German National Library
• Chappattes website (English)
• Portrait in the magazine Du (PDF file; 185 kB)
• Chappatte at the Open Forum Davos 2005 (English)
• Dans l'enclos de Gaza , Le Temps (French)