Paul Gillon was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 comics

Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics are comics that are created in Belgium and France. These countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs, an abbreviation of bande dessinée in French and stripverhalen in Dutch...

 artist. He won the 1982 Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême

Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême

Every year, the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême is awarded during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to an author for his body of work and/or for his achievement in the evolution of comics....

.

Born in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, he considered fashion, theater and cinema, and only by accident made a career as a comics author. In the magazine Vaillant

Pif gadget

Pif Gadget was a French comic magazine for children that ran from 1969 to 1993 and 2004 to 2009. Its audience peaked in the early 1970s.-History:Created as an outlet of the French Communist Party, it was initially entitled Le Jeune Patriote...

, he continued the older series Lynx Blanc, and created Fils de Chine and Cormoran. From 1959 until 1972, he drew 13, rue de l'espoir for France Soir

France Soir

France Soir is a French daily newspaper that prospered during the 1950s and 1960s, but it has declined since then under various owners. It was re-launched as a populist tabloid in 2006.-History:...

and also did series for the Journal de Mickey.

Together with Jean-Claude Forest

Jean-Claude Forest

Jean-Claude Forest was a writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella.-Biography:...

, he created the science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 cosmic opera series Les naufragés du temps (Lost in Time) and in L'Écho des savanes

L'Écho des savanes

L’Écho des Savanes is a French comics magazine founded in May 1972 by Claire Bretécher, Marcel Gotlib and Nikita Mandryka. It featured the work of French and international authors and graphic artists in mature-oriented comics over the course of 34 years, but temporarily ended publication in...

(Echo of the Savannahs) he produced the erotic comics La Survivante (The Survivor) and Jéhanne. He died in Amiens

Amiens

Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in Picardy...

.

Works

• Lynx Blanc (White Lynx), in the collection Grandes Aventures Vaillant, 1961 (first published between 1948 and 1957)
  • #11: Tonnerre sur les Îles (Thunder on the Islands)
  • #15: Aventures dans la Brousse (Adventures in the Bushland)

• Jérémie
  Jérémie
  Jérémie is the capital city of the department of Grand'Anse, in Haiti, with a population of about 31,000 . It is almost isolated from the rest of the country...
  
  (published in Pif gadget
  Pif gadget
  Pif Gadget was a French comic magazine for children that ran from 1969 to 1993 and 2004 to 2009. Its audience peaked in the early 1970s.-History:Created as an outlet of the French Communist Party, it was initially entitled Le Jeune Patriote...
  
  between 1968 and 1972)

1. Les dieux barbares (The Savage Gods), Lombard
   Le Lombard
   Le Lombard or Lombard Editions is a Belgian comic book publisher established in 1946 when the Tintin magazine was launched. In 1986 the company was acquired by Média-Participations.-Titles:Lombard's more famous series include:*Clifton...
   
   , 1973; Les Humanoïdes Associés
   Les Humanoïdes Associés
   Les Humanoïdes Associés is a French publishing house specialising in comics and graphic novels. Founded in December 1974 by Mœbius, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet and Bernard Farkas in order to publish Métal Hurlant, it quickly expanded to include a variety of science fiction work...
   
   , 1981
2. La mijaurée, la mégère et le nabot (The Prim Miss, the Shrew and the Runt), Lombard, 1974; Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1982
3. Intrigues à la Jamaïque (Intrigue in Jamaica), Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1979
4. Le fort de San-Juan (The Fort of San Juan), Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1980

• Les naufragés du temps (Lost in Time, first four volumes with Jean-Claude Forest
  Jean-Claude Forest
  Jean-Claude Forest was a writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella.-Biography:...
  
  ) Les Humanoïdes Associés

1. L'étoile endormie (The Sleeping Star) - 1974 - ISBN 2-7316-0124-8
2. La mort sinueuse (Sinuous Death) - 1975 - ISBN 2-7316-0123-X
3. Labyrinthes (Labyrinths) - 1976 - ISBN 2-7316-0034-9
4. L'univers cannibale (The Cannibal Universe) - 1976 - ISBN 2-7316-0037-3
5. Tendre chimère (Sweet Dream) - 1977 - ISBN 2-7316-0220-1
6. Les maîtres-rêveurs (The Dream Masters) - 1978 - ISBN 2-73160-036-5
7. Le sceau de Beselek (The Saw of Beselek) - 1979 - ISBN 2-7316-0036-5
8. Ortho-Mentas - 1981 - ISBN 2-7316-0106-X
9. Terra - 1984 - ISBN 2-7316-0297-X
10. Le cryptomère (The Cryptomeria) - 1989 - ISBN 2-7316-0444-1

• Histoire du socialisme en France (History of Socialism in France), Service de l'Homme, 1977 (introduction by François Mitterrand
  François Mitterrand
  François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...
  
    ISBN 2-902-648-02-2)

• With Roger Lecureux: Fils de Chine (Son of China), Glénat
  Glénat (publisher)
  Glénat Editions SA is a French publisher with its head office in Grenoble. The company publishes many things, including comic books and manga in France, Benelux, and Spain; it was founded by Jacques Glénat. The Spanish subsidiary has its head office in Barcelona. The Benelux subsidiary, Glénat...
  
  , 1978 (first published between 1950 and 1953)

• Wango, Furioso (Futuropolis Diffusion), 1980 (first published between 1958 and 1960)

• Treize rue de l'espoir (Number 13, Hope Street), Les Humanoïdes Associés (with François Gall between 1959 and 1972)
  • Volume 1: 1980
  • Volume 2: 1982

• Téva, Les Humanïdes Associés, 1982 (based on a TV series from 1973)

• Les Léviathans

1. Les Léviathans (The Leviathans), Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1982; retitled Le Plan Aspic, Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1990
2. La dent de l'alligator (Alligator's Tooth), Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1990 ; Albin Michel, 2000
3. Réaction en chaîne (Chain Reaction), Albin Michel, 2000

• Les Mécanoïdes Associés (The Society of Mechanoids), Humanoïdes Associés, coll. Pied Jaloux, 1982

• Capitaine Cormoran (Paul Gillon - complete works part 1), Humanoïdes Associés, 1983 (first published between 1954 and 1959)

• Moby-Dick
  Moby-Dick
  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, was written by American author Herman Melville and first published in 1851. It is considered by some to be a Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod,...
  
  , Hachette, 1983 (with Jean Ollivier)

• Processus de Survie (Process of Survival), Humanoïdes Associés, coll. Pied Jaloux, 1984

• Notre-Dame de Paris, Hachette, 1985 (with Claude Gendrot)

• La survivante (The Survivor)

1. La survivante - October 1985
2. L’héritier (The Heir) - October 1987
3. La revanche (Revenge) - April 1990
4. L’ultimatum (Ultimatum) - November 1991

• With Patrick Cothias, Au nom de tous les miens (In the Name of All My Kin)

1. Les fourmis (The Ants), Glénat, 1986
2. Les renards (The Foxes), Glénat, 1987

• Jehanne (Joan of Arc), Albin Michel

1. La sève et le sang (Sap and Blood), 1993
2. La pucelle (The Maiden), 1997

• With Denis Lapière, La dernière des salles obscures (The Last of the Dark Halls), Dupuis
  • Part 1: 1996
  • Part 2: 1998

• Le contrat (The Contract), Albin Michel, 2001.

• La veuve blanche (White Widow), coll. Aire Libre, Dupuis, 2002.

• With Frank Giroud, Le Décalogue, part 7: La conspiration (The Conspiracy), 2002.

• With Richard Malka, L'Ordre de Cicéron ("Cicero's Order")

1. Le procès (The Trial), Glénat, 2004
2. Mis en examen (Cross-examination), Glénat, 2006

• With Frank Giroud, Quintet
  • Deuxième mouvement - Histoire d'Alban Méric (Second Movement: the Story of Alban Méric), coll. Empreinte(s), Dupuis, 2005

Awards

• 1972: Prix Phénix for Jérémie
• 1974: Prix Phénix for Les Naufragés du temps
• 1978: Best French Artist
  Angoulême International Comics Festival Other awards
  A number of awards was only presented at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for a short time.-Award for best French artist:* 1974: Alexis* 1975: Jacques Tardi* 1976: André Cheret* 1977: Moebius* 1978: Paul Gillon-Award for best foreign artist:...
  
   at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
  Angoulême International Comics Festival
  The Angoulême International Comics Festival is the largest comics festival in Europe. It has occurred every year since 1974 in Angoulême, France, in the month of January.The four-day festival is notable for awarding several prestigious prizes in cartooning...
  
  , France
• 1982: Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême
  Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême
  Every year, the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême is awarded during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to an author for his body of work and/or for his achievement in the evolution of comics....
  
  
• 1986: Grand Prix RTL
  RTL (French radio)
  In France, RTL is a popular nation-wide commercial radio network owned by the RTL Group.In 1931, Radio Luxembourg, the public radio network from Luxembourg, was privatised. Beginning in 1946, it could be heard easily in France. Until the 1980s, only the French public radio networks could transmit...
  
   for Au nom de tous les miens
• 1986: Special Jury Award at the 17th Lucca
  Lucca
  Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...
  
   festival
• 1998: Grand Prix Yellow Kid at the Lucca Festival

Sources

• 1978: Schtroumfanzine - Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée, no. 36 - Dossier Gillon
• 1986: Champagne ! no. 2/3, October - Interview Gillon
• 1982: b.d. bulle (magazine of the Angoulême Festival), no. 10 - Dossier Gillon
• 1998 : Monsieur Gillon, biography by Claude Gendrot, published together with La dernière des salles obscures

Video

• Paul Gillon, by Jean-Loup Martin, Cendrane Films / 8 Mont Blanc productions, 1997 (25' 30")

External links

• Biography
• Biography on the site of publisher Dupuis
  Dupuis
  Éditions Dupuis S.A. is a Belgian publisher of comic books and magazines.Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic albums and magazines. It is originally a French language publisher, but publishes many editions both in French...