Gerard Lauzier

Gerard Lauzier , born the November 30th 1932 with Marseilles, is an author of Cartoon, plays, as well as a Réalisateur of films.

Biography

After a license of Philosophy, he studies architecture during four years with the École of Beautiful arts of Paris. Then, he attends the “Workshops Perret and Lagneaux” where he begins in tuck pattern.

Left with the Brazil, initially for some three months holidays, it remains of numerous there years, 1956 to 1964, working for the Journal of Bahia as caricaturist and advertizing executive.

On its return in France in 1965, it continues the drawing of humor for various newspapers. It is in 1974 qu ' it begins in the cartoon by carrying out Lili Fatale published in album at Dargaud.

It connects the same year with certain a faintness , conceives Tranches of life for the newspaper Pilote and them adventures of Zizi and Peter Panpan for the magazine Him .

Equipped with a wild humor and a sharp-edged glance, Lauzier undertakes a social painting of the years 1970 in which he denounces the generally accepted ideas and contradictions of certain mediums. In its various albums, the Race of the rat (1978), the Head in the bag (1980), the Executives (1981), To remember an young man (1982), it shows a remarkable direction of the dialogs. As from 1991, it starts to be directed towards the trade of scenario writer for the theater and works, in particular, with Jean-Claude Martin for which it adapts its Tranches of life , Daniel Auteuil ( the Boy of apartment ), Pierre Mondy ( Amuses it mouth ). He also works for the cinema, I will crack of François Leterrier or Astérix and Obélix against César of Claude Zidi.

In 1992, against any waiting, it is allocated to the cartoon by producing Portrait of the artist in whom it gives in Choupon scene, its character fetish. The following year, it receives a Grand Prix at the time of the twentieth International festival of the cartoon of Angouleme.

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