Robert Gigi
Robert Gigi (born July 29, 1926 in Besançon , France , † February 6, 2007 ) was a French comic book artist and illustrator .
life and work
Gigi found a job with Raymond Poïvet during his studies . He published his first comics in 1948 under the pseudonym Bob Gigi . Together with the comic author Claude Moliterni , Gigi created the comic series Scarlett Dream in 1965 for the French V-Magazine , which continued until 1975. In the late 1960s he drew Le dossier des soucoupes volantes (text: Jacques Lob ), which was followed by the Agar and Ugaki series in the early 1970s . Gigi became a comic book teacher in Angoulême in the 1980s and retired from drawing comics in the early 1990s. Gigi died after a long illness in 2007. Gigi was awarded the Gran Guinigi in 1969 at the Salone Internazionale dei Comics comic festival in Lucca . In addition to drawing comics, he worked as an illustrator and in advertising.
Gigi published four German albums from the Scarlett Dream series from 1981 to 1983 by Carlsen Verlag .
literature
- Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 112.
- Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 211.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Robert Gigi on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on May 27, 2012
- ↑ a b c d e f g Robert Gigi on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on May 27, 2012
- ↑ 5 ° SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEI COMICS (Italian) , accessed on May 27, 2012
- ↑ Scarlett Dream on comicguide.de , accessed on January 22, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gigi, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gigi, Bob (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French comic book artist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Besançon , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 2007 |