Christian Godard, comic book author, died at the age of 92

With more than 230 albums to his credit, this multi-hatted author has also written novels, plays, sketches and even television scripts.

The French cartoonist and comic book author Christian Godard, creator of Norbert and Kari et Martin Milan, died at his Parisian home at the age of 92, his relatives announced, Monday November 11, 2024, in a message on his website. “He fought courageously for more than a year against cancer and he fell asleep forever, at home, in Paris, near his family,” they clarified.

Born March 24, 1932 in Paris, Christian Godard made his debut under the pseudonym Ème in the early 1950s in illustrated periodicals such as Coq hardbefore publishing under his own name “in all youth magazines”of Pilot has Pif Mag passing through Tintin et Spirou“from the 1960s to the present day”, recalls its site.

Designer of René Goscinny (for Lili Mannequin, Jacquot the Mousse…) for a dozen years, he found success with Norbert and Kari, series launched in 1963 in Pilotwhere he explores the friendship between a Polynesian and a Parisian who has decided to flee the capital. He does it again with Martin Milanhis other most personal series, on the adventures of an altruistic plane taxi pilot, started in 1967 in the newspaper Tintin.

As a screenwriter, Christian Godard also signed The Jungle Madness with French designer Mic Delinx. Then, in the 1970s, The Wanderer of Limboscience fiction series illustrated by the Spaniard Julio Ribera, with whom he created a publishing house in 1988, The Silver Ship, closed in 1991.

With more than 230 albums to his credit, this multi-hatted author has also written novels, plays, sketches and even television scripts. He will be buried Thursday, November 14 at 3 p.m., in the Saint-Ouen cemetery.