Paul Gillon
Paul Gillon ( born May 11, 1926 in Paris, † 21 May, 2011 Amiens ) was a French cartoonist.
Career
Paul Gillon drew at age 14 cartoons for magazines Samedi Soir, France Dimanche and Gavroche. In 1947 he got a job at the Vaillant comic magazine, he took over the series Lynx Blanc Capitaine Cormoran and Wango and worked there together with the authors Lécureux Roger and Jean Ollivier. With Fils de Chine 1950 he created his first series, in which he portrayed Mao Zedong. He recorded a total of 160 pages long history in black and white, almost independent of each other panels in which the text blocks manufactured the relationship between the images.
1961 Gillon began a collaboration with the Journal de Mickey. Until 1964 he was responsible for this magazine several episodes of the series Les temps des copains on texts by Jean Canolle. It was an adaptation of the eponymous television series, which in turn was an adaptation of a novel by Canolle. Further work for the Journal de Mickey were La déesse d'or (1961 ), a sequel to the eponymous television series, Téva (1973 ), an adaptation of the eponymous television series based on texts by Georges Tardy, and finally Le Fantôme de Barbe Noire ( 1977), an adaptation of the feature film Blackbeard's Ghost by Robert Stevenson.
With Jean -Claude Forest Gillon worked from 1964 series, the castaways of the time, which appeared in the magazine Chouchou. The series about a pair of the 20th century, which has been reawakened in a space capsule after 1,000 years of deep sleep and come to terms with the inhabitants of the solar system, was discontinued after nine pages and continued until 1974 in the daily newspaper France Soir. She became known for our future publications from 1977 in Métal Hurlant. From Volume 5 took Gillon and the writing of scenarios.
From 1959 to 1972 he was responsible for France Soir the Daily strip 13, Rue de l' Espoir. It appeared 4139 episodes, which were published in the early 1980s again in two anthologies of Les Associés Humanoïdes.
Awards
In 1982 he received the Grand Prix de la Ville d' Angoulême at the International Comic Festival in Angoulême.