Marcel Gotlib

Marcel Gotlib or simply Gotlib was the pseudonym of the French cartoonist Marcel Mordekhai Gottlieb (Paris, July 14, 1934-Yvelines, 4 December 2016). He was one of the most renowned European authors. His best known character is Gai-Luron, and his short stories are also famous, grouped in the series Rubrique-à-Brac .

Biography

Gotlib was the son of Jewish immigrants: a Romanian father, arrested and disappeared in 1942, and a Hungarian mother. He spent part of his childhood in an orphanage and began drawing as a teenager. He studied advertising drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts in the French capital, and in 1959 he published his first works as an illustrator.

He worked for Récord and Pilote magazines and was co-founder of L'Écho des Savanes (with Nikita Mandryka and Claire Bretécher) and the important Glacial Fluid.

In 1991 he received the grand prize at the Angoulême Comic Book Festival.

Work

Gotlib made a provocative comic, of a humorous nature, with a detailed drawing that breaks down and amplifies the movements of its protagonists (what has been called excessive drawing).