Konk

Konk is the pseudonym of Laurent Fabre , a Dessinateur of press born the May 6th 1944 with Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine). Given up to its birth, he is entrusted to the Public assistance before being adopted at the ten years age.

He starts by making appear his drawings in Le Monde (1969-1973, 1975-1982), then the Morning (1982-1984) and the Event of Thursday (1984-1987). He leaves Le Monde in 1982, saying himself disappointed to be able to tackle the left with the capacity with same freedom only the line. Via Pierre Guillaume, it meets with beginning of the year 80 of the authors negationnists. He which had published drawings “exterminationnists” ( Le Monde , November 1st, 1978), then includes in its album With the Robbers (Albin Michel, 1986) a double page where it questions, by the image, the existence of the gas chambers. He is then violently criticized in all the press of left, even if Jean-François Kahn, with whom Konk had proposed the boards accused before publication, preserved it a few months in his weekly magazine. As from May 1987, he collaborates in the Figaro , Current values and Minute . Évincé of the liberal line press, it does not publish any more but in Minute and National-Hebdo , like in the Gross Bertha and the international Idiot .

To the retirement since December 2004, Konk is devoted to the realization of its child's dream: to conceive and build itself a car, if possible flying.

Selective list of collections of drawings

Everyone it is French (2006)
For the life (2006)
52 weeks in drawings - Volume II (1998)
52 weeks in drawings - Volume I (1997)
Politiquement incorrect (unspecified date)

Konk persists and signs (1995)

Konk made of resistance (1992)

Histoire of love (February 1992)

Vive the nuclear power, little story of energy (February 1992)

1989 (February 1990)

Konk second collection (February 1989)

Of under! time! (January 1989)

With the robbers (June 1986)

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