Sid Ali Melouah
Sid Ali Melouah (born September 23, 1949 in Algiers , † June 4, 2007 ) was an Algerian comic artist and cartoonist .
biography
In 1968 he founded the first Algerian comic magazine, M'quidech, together with Mohamed Aram, Ahmed Haroun, Maz, Slim and Brahim Guerroui . After studying in Copenhagen from 1970 to 1975 , he worked both as a draftsman and as a journalist for newspapers - including El Moudjahid , Algérie Actualité , Horizon and Afrique-Asie - and children's magazines. For adults he created the books based on oriental stories La Cité Interdite (1982), which sold about 80,000 times, and La Secte des Assassins (1984). Le Grand trésor was created in 1986 in collaboration with the UN .
From 1990 he acted as editor of the satirical weekly magazine El Manchar ("The Saw"), later he co-founded El Baroud . Some of his work for El Manchar was published in 1997 as a book.
In the late 1990s, under pressure from Islamists, Melouah left Algeria and went to France, where he worked for magazines such as La Croix , Charlie Hebdo and Marianne . His last work Pierrot de Bab el Oued , published in 2003, is about the 30-year friendship between an Algerian and a Frenchman. He died in 2007 at the age of 57 as a result of heart surgery.
Awards
In 1982 he was awarded the Premio Caran d'Ache at the Comicsalon Lucca in Italy and in 2003 in Rome with the Yellow Kid . Also in Italy, at the 27th Forte Dei Marmi Festival, he won the 1997 international prize for the best political satire.
Web links
- Obituary (french)
- Sid Ali Melouah at lambiek.net (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Melouah, Sid Ali |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Algerian comic artist and caricaturist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Algiers , Algeria |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 2007 |