André Jobin, alias Job, comic book writer, died this Wednesday, announced Le Lombard editions. Born in Delémont in the Swiss Jura, he had spent some time in Lille. He was a graduate of the Higher School of Journalism (ESJ) and the Institute of Social and Political Sciences. He had collaborated in various Swiss media in the 1950s. His first series of comics, in 1967, recounts the life of an owl, in “The Adventures of Pythagoras and Co”. The beginning of a partnership with the designer Derib, now 80 years old.
Thirty-eight volumes
The two artists created the most famous of their works, Yakariin 1969. The series features Yakari, a Sioux child from the Lakota tribe who has the gift of speaking to North American animals that he meets while traveling with his tribe. Yakari was first published as a periodical, before appearing in 38 volumes published between 1973 and 2014. Other authors have since taken over.
Awarded at the Angoulême festival
An animated series was broadcast from 2005 on the France Télévisions and RTBF channels in Belgium. The comic strip has seen nearly twenty translations. Job won the youth prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for two albums in 1982 and 2006. He lived in Nîmes before his death.
