Nicole Claveloux

French painter, illustrator and comic book artist (born 1940) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nicole Claveloux

Nicole Claveloux (French: [klav(ə)lu]; born 23 June 1940) is a French painter, illustrator and comic book artist.

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Claveloux at the Angoulême Festival 2020
Born (1940-06-23) 23 June 1940 (age 84)
NationalityFrench
Known forPainting, illustration, comics
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Biography

Nicole Claveloux was born in Saint-Étienne, France, 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 [fr] 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

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  • 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 [fr] in Montreuil
  • Alboum (1998), illustrator, text by Christian Bruel [fr] 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 [fr][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]

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