The death of Bernadette Després, designer of the children’s series Tom-Tom and Nana of which she was the co-creator, was announced this Wednesday, November 20, 2024. She was 83 years old. On the eve of the launch of bd Boum, it was a regular at the Blésois festival who left. An exhibition was dedicated to him in 2012 and a room at the Maison de la BD in Blois bears the name of his two little heroes.
Bernadette Després, who lived in the neighboring department of Loiret, near Pithiviers, had also come to Loir-et-Cher several times to speak in schools or during signing sessions.
“In life, you don’t always have to be serious”
Interviewed in 2005 by The New Republicon the sidelines of a trip to Mondoubleau, she spoke about her sources of inspiration. “I like to make people laugh above all, she explained. The desire to be close to children too. I observe them a lot, I try to understand them. With my drawings I try to show that in life, you don't always have to be serious, and also to make parents understand how important it is not to make their children grow up too quickly. »
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