Nicole Claveloux
Nicole Claveloux | |
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 Nicole Claveloux at the Angoulême Festival 2020 | |
| Born | 23 June, 1940 |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Painting, Illustration, comics |
Nicole Claveloux (French: [klav(ə)lu]; born 23 June, 1940) is a French painter, illustrator and comic book artist.
Biography[edit]
She was born in Saint-Étienne and studied fine arts there. She moved to Paris in 1966, where she worked as an illustrator and comics artist for various magazines including Planète, Okapi and Marie Claire.[1]
Her illustration style incorporates both psychedelic use of colour and sophisticated black and white images.[2]
Her work was included in several exhibitions, including Nicole Claveloux et compagnie at Villeurbanne in 1995 and a retrospective at the Mediatheque Hermeland at Saint-Herblain.[3]
Selected works[3][edit]
- Le Voyage extravagant de Hugo Brisefer (1967)
- Alala: Les télémorphoses (1970), illustrator. Published by Harlin Quist in English as The Teletrips of Alala
- Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles (1972), illustrator
- La Main verte (1978), comic book featuring a series of short stories from Métal Hurlant. Published in English in 2017 as The Green Hand
- Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue (1981), illustrator
- Dedans les gens (1993), received the Prix Totem Album at the Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse in Montreuil
- Alboum (1998), illustrator, text by Christian Bruel received the Prix Sorcières[4]
- Morceaux choisis de la Belle et la Bête, erotic book (2003), illustrator
- Mon Gugus à moi (2004), illustrator, received the Prix Cécile-Gagnon[5]
- Un roi, une princesse et une pieuvre (2005), illustrator, received the Prix Goncourt Jeunesse[6]
- Professeur Totem et docteur Tabou (2006), illustrator
- Gargantua (2007), illustrator
- Confessions d'un monte-en-l'air, erotic book (2007), illustrator
- Contes de la Fève et du Gland, erotic book (2010), illustrator
- La Belle et la bête, children's book (2013), illustrator
- Nours, children's book (2014), illustrator
- Quel genre de bisous ?, children's book (2016)
- The Green Hand and Other Stories (2017), with Édith Zha, translated into English by Donald Nicholson-Smith[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Nicole Claveloux" (in French). Editions Thierry Magnier.
- ^ a b "The Green Hand and Other Stories". Penguin Random House.
- ^ a b Dictionnaire de la Bande dessinée (in French). Encyclopaedia Universalis. 2015. pp. 101–03. ISBN 978-2341002301.
- ^ "Christian Bruel" (in French). Centre national de la littérature pour la jeunesse.
- ^ "Prix Cécile-Gagnon 2004". Prix de langue française (in French). Library and Archives Canada.
- ^ du Boucheron, Bernard (2016). La guerre en vacances (in French). Editions du Rocher. p. 2. ISBN 978-2268085395.
External links[edit]
- "Site officiel de Nicole Claveloux" (in French).
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