The funeral of Bernadette Després, co-creator of “Tom-Tom and Nana”, will be held on Wednesday in Loiret

They will take place near Pithiviers, in Givraines, where the designer lived.

Illustrator Bernadette Després, co-creator of Tom-Tom and Nanawill be buried on Wednesday November 27, in Loiret, where she had resided for 50 years, reports France Bleu Orléans. Her funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m. near Pithiviers, at the church of Givraines, the village in which she lived. She will then be buried in Yèvre-le-Châtel a few kilometers away.

The designer of Tom-Tom and NanaBernadette Després, died Wednesday November 20 at the age of 83. His publishing house, Bayard Jeunesse, has already announced that a tribute would be paid to him “during the next Book and Youth Press Fair in Montreuil”in Seine-Saint-Denis.

Bayard Jeunesse greeted a designer at “natural, very spontaneous, full of mischief and humor”, “illustrator of the inexhaustible nonsense of the comic series Tom-Tom and Nana, and around thirty albums for young peopleBernadette Afterwards “put all his energy into making his characters known, drawing them in all possible postures during the countless dedications which earned him demonstrations of affection from his admirers, whether they 6, 26 or 46 years old!”confides the publishing house.

“In 1976, Bayard Jeunesse launched J'aime lire and asked Bernadette Després and Jacqueline Cohen to create a monthly comic strip: À la bonne fork, which officially became Tom-Tom et Nana in 1990”recalls the publishing house. This comic strip highlights the adventures of a brother and his little sister, who have always “brilliant ideas and lots of energy”. Very quickly, it achieved great success which has never faded, thus crossing generations. This will also be worth Bernadette Després to win “the Honorary Fauve of the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2019 for all of his work”. The designer is also elevated to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honor in 2021.