Disappearance
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The co-creator of “Tom-Tom and Nana” died Tuesday at the age of 83. Adored by several generations of children, she enjoyed a late recognition in the world of illustration.
It was Pénélope Bagieu who said it to Liberation in 2019: “It was the first comic book I discovered. Tom-Tom and Nana, it’s super funny, very free. I reread them today and I realized that it was also very modern: Nana does not at all have a role of foil compared to Tom-Tom, their best friend is black, their parents work all the time – including the mother… we are far from Little Brown Bear !» It is rare that Tom-Tom and Nana does not provoke any reaction, memory or exclamation when it is discussed. Quite the contrary. For at least three generations, the comic book series and its characters evoke nothing less than their first readings, the wait for I like to read in the mailbox and a restaurant they won’t soon forget. Behind this monument to children’s literature, a little lady worked, Bernadette Després, who died on Tuesday November 19, at the age of 83.
Tom-Tom, the big brother, and Nana, the little sister, get into mischief in their parents’ restaurant, “A la bonne forque”. Their stories represent more than 3,000 pages published in the form of episodes in the monthly I like to read since 1977. Thirty-four volumes published. More than 17 million books sold since the launch of the collection in 1985, including approximately 250,000 each year. An adaptation
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