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Martin Leduc
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Oct 9, 2024 at 4:33 p.m.
; updated Oct 9, 2024 at 4:49 p.m.
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He was one of the first to “whisper in the ears of horses”, and in particular of his own, Petit Tonerre. Yakari mourns his screenwriter, this Wednesday October 9, 2024.
The Swiss André Jobin, known as “Job” died yesterday, Tuesday October 8, 2024, according to Editions du Lombard. He was 96 years old.
Throughout his career as a comic book writer, his stories have reflected his good humor and a visionary spirit, particularly in the areas of living together, ecology, respectful relationship with nature, and animal protection.
38 volumes of Yakari to his credit
It was in 1969 that the former media journalist The Country, meets a character created by Dérib: the young Sioux from the Lakota tribe who knows how to speak to animals. The two men became friends and a fruitful collaboration began.
Job imposes three conditions for scripting Yakari’s adventures: that the young hero always remains a child of the wild, that the plots never fall into Western clichés and, faithful to his first passion, to inform, that each episode introduces a new animal, as indicated by Le Lombard editions, paying homage to it.
A few decades later, Yakari is an iconic person in French-speaking comics, in the same way as Spirou & Fantasio, the Smurfsor even The blue tunics. Between 1973 and 2014, some 38 volumes of Yakari, written by Job, were released. Five million copies sold, translated into 19 languages.
“A great gentleman”
The adventures of the little Indian have even been adapted twice into a cartoon, a media of choice for many young people. A first time in 1983, a second time in 2005.
During his career, Job received several awards, including two Youth Prizes in 1983 and 2006 for Yakari, and an “Honorary Master” from the Sierre festival, for all of his work.
“He is a great gentleman, elegant and cultured, who is leaving us,” pays tribute to the house which published Job’s flagship comic strip.
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