Jean-Marc Reiser, April 13, 1941 in Réhon

Réhon

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 (department Meurthe-et-Moselle

Meurthe-et-Moselle

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) was a French

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 comics creator

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. He died November 5, 1983 in Paris

Paris

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, of bone cancer.

Biography

A prolific cartoon

Cartoon

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 artist from 1959 until his death, Reiser made his debut in the publication La Gazette de Nectar for the Nicolas winery. His works are to this day controversial, with some people enthusiastically endorsing them, and other loathing them. At a 2004 exhibition of his works in the Centre Pompidou, the entrance heeded the warning "Beware! Some of the exhibited pictures could hurt the feelings of several visitors."

He founded the comics magazine

Franco-Belgian comics magazines

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 Hara-Kiri

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In 1960, Georges Bernier, Cavanna and Fred Aristidès created the monthly satirical magazine Hara-Kiri. Hara Kiri Hebdo, its weekly counterpart, was first published in 1969....

in 1960 together with Fred

Fred (comics)

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 and François Cavanna

François Cavanna

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. Reiser was known to attack taboos of all kinds. Hara-Kiri was banned in 1970 by the French minister of the interior for allegedly mocking the recently deceased Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle

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. Reiser subsequently published his drawings in the followup magazine Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo

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and several other publications. In 1978 he won the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême

Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême

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.

The German

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 cartoonist Walter Moers

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 has mentioned Reiser as one of his influences.

Selected bibliography

• Ils sont moches, éditions du square (1970)
• Mon Papa, éditions du square (1971)
• Je vous aime, Euréditions (1971)
• La vie au grand air, (éditions du square (1972)
• La vie des bêtes
• On vit une époque formidable
• Vive les femmes
• Vive les vacances
• Phantasmes
• Les copines
• Gros Dégueulasse
• Fous d'amour

Awards

• 1974 Prix Saint-Michel, for La vie au grand air
• 1978 Angoulême Festival
  Angoulême International Comics Festival
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  , Grand Prix de la ville

Sources

• Reiser publications in Pilote, Charlie Mensuel, BD, L'Écho des savanes BDoubliées
• Reiser albums Bedetheque

Footnotes

External links

• Jean-Marc Reiser biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia