The world of bubbles is in mourning: The French cartoonist and comic book author Christian Godard, creator of Norbert and Kari et Martin Milandied at his Parisian home at the age of 92, his relatives announced, Monday November 11, 2024, in a message published 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 said.
Designer by René Goscinny
Born March 24, 1932 in Paris, Christian Godard made his debut under the pseudonym Ème in the early 1950s in illustrated periodicals like Coq boldi, before publishing under his own name “in all magazines for young people,” from Pilote to Pif Mag via Tintin and Spirou, “from the 1960s to the present day”, recalls its site.
Designer of René Goscinny (for Lili Mannequin, Jacquot the Mousse etc) for a dozen years, he had enjoyed success with Norbert and Karia series launched in Pilote in 1963 and in which he explored the friendship between a Polynesian and a Parisian who had decided to flee the capital. He had reoffended with Martin Milanhis other, most personal series, on the adventures of an altruistic plane taxi pilot, started in 1967 in the Tintin newspaper.
As a screenwriter, Christian Godard had also signed The crazy jungle 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.
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With more than 230 albums to his credit, this multi-faceted author had also written novels, plays, sketches and even television scripts. He will be buried Thursday November 14, 2024 in the Saint-Ouen cemetery (Seine-Saint-Denis).
