Georges Wolinski

Georges Wolinski ( born June 28, 1934 in Tunis ) is a French comic book artist.

Career

George Wolinski in 1946 went with his parents to France. After an uncompleted study architecture in Paris George Wolinski started drawing comic strips in 1960 for the monthly magazine Hara Kiri -. From 1968 he also worked for the satirical magazine L' Enragé and from 1970 for Actuel. Wolinski tried as chief editor of Charlie Mensuel from 1971 to the opening of international comics and could next to Krazy Kat and Popeye comics by Guido Bruzzelli, José Antonio Muñoz and others publish. From 1977 he regularly drew cartoons for the daily newspaper L' Humanité in France Soir and Charlie Hebdo, the weekly successor of Hara- Kiri, his works have been printed. This especially Monsieur, a series of short strips in which two Frenchmen - a conservative " omniscient " and its counterpart, an opportunistic Stooges - which were outlined by Wolinski with just a few strokes, but a lot of text, about current political and social issues entertained.

His most famous work is the series Paulette, which he developed as a writer in 1971 with the artist Georges Pichard. The individual sequences first appeared in Charlie Mensuel and were later published in albums. The heroine Paulette is a young heiress who raped in their adventures, humiliated and tortured. Wolinskis stories mix this literary genres and scenes of action, use patterns and stereotypes of trivial literature that are exaggerated and ironic.

Awards

Wolinski was awarded the 2005 Grand Prix de la Ville d' Angoulême at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême.

Swell

• Lambiek.net (English)