Marcel Gotlib

Gotlib or Marcel Gotlib , Marcel Gottlieb of his true name, is a Dessinateur and Scénariste of Cartoon French born the July 14th 1934 with Paris.

Biography

Drawing with the cartoon

It is in its youth large amateur of works of Walt Disney (with a great admiration for the film Pinocchio), inter alia, which will inspire it thereafter. It early starts to make its own illustrations, which is worth to him to be pointed out at the school, its drawings in the margins of its draftings being worth to him points in more on behalf of its professors.

His/her parents being Jewish S (of Rumanian origin for his/her father and Hungarian woman for its mother), the gendarmerie comes to seek all its family in 1942. His/her mother, warned Raid by a gendarme, succeeds in hiding it him and her sister. It will never re-examine his father, taken along previously by the police force. After the Second world war, as from 1947, it spends three years to the castle of Groux to Verneuil-sur-Seine, kind of orphanage, where it discovers what it will call later the “girls of the opposed sex”, and in particular Klara, an young girl of Hungarian origin . This part of the life of Gotlib was the subject of an autobiography of youth entitled I exist, I met .

In 1951, whereas he works with the OCP (Pharmaceutical Commercial Office), while following the courses of the evening of the applied arts. It finds then a place of Lettreur at Opera-Mundi, which it leaves to try its chance “on its account”. It carries out many coloring books, tales, books for children. It makes its beginnings in the Cartoon in 1962, in the newspaper Vaillant , where it draws Gilou, Klop, Puck and Poil , Nanar, Jujube and Piette and especially Merry-Lad , whose publication continues in Vaillant , then Pif gadget , until 1971.

Always in the Years 1960, it draws in Record the conferences of “Professor Frederic Rosbif”, whose certain ideas will be taken up then for its character of Professor Burp in the Rubrique with brac . It also illustrates books of tales for children, like Titou does the housework .

Of Pilot to the Echo of savannas

Entered with the newspaper Pilot , it creates there in 1965 with Rene Goscinny the series Dingodossiers . Goscinny, then editor association of the newspaper, appreciates the humor of Gotlib, influenced by the newspaper of satirical data base American Mad . He encourages it after some albums in collaboration to continue only a series: it will be the Rubrique with brac , small revolution in the world of the comic data base.

Later, in 1972, another collaborator of Pilot , friend of Gotlib Nikita Mandryka, sees himself refusing a history of the Concombre Masked by Goscinny. Disappointed, Mandryka then proposes in Gotlib to create their own newspaper. With the assistance of Claire Bretécher, they thus launch in 1972 the Echo of savannas , where the style and the stories of Gotlib enormously will change compared to the years of Pilote .

On the level of the drawing, the feature is done fattier, more worked. It accentuates the details, improves its blows of feather. For the scenario and humor, Gotlib tries an experiment which it will continue until the end of its career: a humor based on the absurdity, deviating on scatological humor, the sex and the gags crescendo (departure calms followed by a burlesque evolution of the facies and postures) or recurring (see small the Momo Morbaque for example, a pirated time).

The adventure Fluid Icy

April 1st, 1975, it launches its own newspaper, Icy Fluide , “magazine of Umour and Bandessinées” . The same year, he is Co-scenario writer of the film vécés were closed interior of Patrice Leconte (1976), with in high-speed motorboat Coluche and Jean Rochefort. He makes also the actor, appearing in particular with the credits of the Fingers in the head (1974), I hate the actors (1986), the New Jean-Claude (2002) and the Keys of motor (2003).

In its new magazine, Gotlib launches various cartoons, who more or less marked each one ninth Article One can quote among most famous Rhââ Lovely , Pervers Pépère , Superdupont , In the joy to the neck or Merry-Lad .

Starting from the Years 1980, Gotlib almost exclusively devotes to the drafting of the leading of Icy Fluide , drawing more and more seldom. It publishes in 1986 its last album of cartoon, the naval battle or Merry-Lad in slipway . It continues however to draw illustrations, in particular for the republication of its preceding albums or for publicities. In 1991, it obtains the Grand Prix of the Festival of Angouleme.

Style

The style of Gotlib is, with regard to the drawing, particularly stripped, even if its characters are of a great complexity. Thus, one finds on his boards few decorations, except in the Dingodossiers , where Goscinny required some of him. This absence of decorations, obvious from Heading-with-Brac, is at the origin of the ladybird of the Heading-with-brac, which has as a role to fill the holes, to fill the boxes (it had before associated in the same way a mouse with its character Merry-Lad in the series of the same name). The ladybird also plays the part of a kind of " chorus antique" who comes to contradict what is told in the box where itself is.

Moreover, the style of Gotlib is particular on the level of the character S. Indeed, it draws of the square heroes, with the very delimited proportions, which resemble those found in the very realistic Tarzan of Burne Hogarth (Gotlib will say to be strongly influenced by this series). This characteristic contrasts with the matter of the stories of the draftsman, because if the characters are realistic, their positions, expressions and adventures are humorous (it calls that his style réalistico-comique'). Gotlib often puts its characters in postures of funniest: they pass from a box Heading-to-brac the other of a normal position to another, which is burlesque being, worthy of a statue, straight left a play of William Shakespeare. Thus they abruptly are covered with a long cape, are equipped with a prestigious laurel wreath, sitting on a majestic throne, are surrounded by many stars, Allégorie S or asserted Adynaton and being expressed with a French more refined, written with Gothic letters of the best effect. To exaggerate which is expensive to him, very present in Rhââ Lovely , it uses of the Contre-plongée, to make use of the language Cinéma tographic, and uses the depth with its maximum (one thus finds the hand of a character disproportionate, which gives to the reader the impression that the hero tightens to him the arms). To finish with the characters of Gotlib, one can say that only Merry-Lad is drawn in a completely humorous style, contrary to all the others.

Lastly, the style of Gotlib, from a narrative point of view, is characterized by a multitude of short talks, lasting for the majority only two pages, as in its major works ( Dingodossiers , the Heading-with-brac , the Trick-in-bulk ). There, there is not really of central figure, even if some return regularly, or appear throughout these very short stories. Gotlib will come from there all the same to create several series dedicated to a particular character with Superdupont, Jovial Hamster, Pervers Pépère, and oldest, Merry-Lad.

The talks of Gotlib are punctuated repetitions common to all its work:

  • Isaac Newton and the discovery of the law of universal gravitation, anecdote which it turned in all the directions.
  • the broccolis (preferred food of the ladybird)

Gotlib remains Master of Humor black, which enables him to sometimes approach topics which are expensive to him time with others, in a satirical way towards him even, throwing discredit upon its own humor that it indicates with irony " end and sophisticated " or " sophisticated and frozen ". The whole of its creation is characterized finally by what Thierry Groensteen names a " euphoria citationnelle" clean to create at the reader the laughter, and which consists in at Gotlib filling its pages with references so much cinematographic, literary or pictorial.

Caricatures

Marcel Gotlib, by the control and the realism of his features, has great talents of caricaturist, although it does not cease protesting the opposite. Except itself, it represented many personalities in its works, of which notamment :

Publications

At Albon

  • Emery and the magic toy (1960 - Gottlieb)

At Willeb

  • I learn how to draw (1961 - Marcel-Gotlib)

In Nightingale

  • To read with the middle price 2nd year (1963)
  • the language with the elementary course (1964)

At Valiant

At Dargaud

At Balland

  • TAC with TAC of Jean Frapat (O.R.T.F: drawings of the various authors of the emission TV - 1973)

At Fluid Icy (editions A.U.D.I.E)

At Rombaldi

  • Integral Gotlib in 9 albums published between 1980 and 1989

At Albert-Rene

At Futuropolis/Comixland/Jean Lafitte (Geneva)

  • Slowburn (with Andre Franquin - 1977 then 1989)
  • Pink Ideas (even history, mini album red fabric with Italian, 1000 e.g. - s.d.)

At Humanoïdes Associated

  • Lob of the Jungle (collective): illustrated account of 8 pages Hollows of the Animal world in 1980

At the Swan

  • the book of the bides , by Stephen Crushes in 1982 (Gotlib foreword, and illustrations by Gotlib, Binet, Goossens, Edika, Fred, Morris, Tardi, F' Murr, Pétillon, Got…)

At Dupuis

  • lay down dirty animals (collective scenario writers for Fluide - Rene Hausman with the drawings)

At Flammarion

  • I exist, I met (autobiography)
  • My Life in bulk (Gotlib with the collaboration of Gilles Verlant and many testimonys of celebrities)

At Glénat (collection " Inheritance data base ")

Catalog of films

Cartoons

  • 1993 : the Ladybird of Gotlib , series of 25 46 seconds gags each one, produced by Dargaud Films and Phantom Animation for Channel + , taken again in VHS in 1995 (20 '), and designed starting from pictorial works of the museums of Louvre, Orsay, and the Art schools of Belgium. They are presented by Michel Lieuré and Gotlib, associate producers.

Actor

Co-Scenario writer

  • 1969: the Muddy one of my childhood (R-with-B volume 1, p. 94-95), of Yves Kovacs, short-measuring for the emission Coded Jean Frapat ( TAC-with-TAC ) (television, 2ère French chain)
  • 1976: vécés was closed interior of Patrice Leconte
  • 1988: Hello the anguish of Pierre Tchernia
  • 1991: Strangers in the night of Sylvain Madigan (TV)
  • 1993: Trap with sounds of Philippe Dorison

Draftsman

  • 1972 : the Life annuity of Pierre Tchernia. It carries out the animated sequence of description of the principle of the life annuity in a childish style (drawing with chalk on a slate) (credited with the credits by the mention: “drawings of small Gotlib”)

  • 1974 : the First Madness of Monty Python - or Pataquesse in 1 French exploitation, first film of the Monty Python, where the poster represents some scénettes drawn resulting from the film

Radio transmissions

Rewards

(Marcel Gotlib is also the only author to have done the one of 3 editions of the Cahiers of the cartoon)

Criticisms

  • 1969 Phoenix n°8 - Interview Gotlib
  • 1970 Music Maker n°3 - Article Gotlib
  • 1970 Current n°2 - File Gotlib
  • 1971 Had n°5 - File Gotlib
  • 1971 Phoenix n°18 - File Gotlib
  • 1971 Falatoff n°1 - Interview Gotlib
  • 1971 Schtroumpf - Books of the Cartoon n°13, 4th trim 1971
  • 1972 Schtroumpf - Books of the Cartoon n°13, 4th trim 1972 (supplemented edition)
  • 1972 Options n°70 - Interview Gotlib
  • 1972 Pop Music n°128 - Interview Gotlib
  • 1973 Nouvel Observateur n°455 - Article Gotlib
  • 1974 the anamorphic esthetics of Gotlib , Jean Maiffredy, ED. Friends of the Cartoon, Toulouse
  • 1974 Gotlib , Nouma Sadoul, coll Graffiti , ED. Albin Michel
  • 1978 Schtroumpfanzine n°20 - new Gotlib (quotations, photographs and drawings of youth)
  • 1980 Haga n°43 - File Gotlib
  • 1985 P.L.G.P.P.U.R. n°19, File Gotlib by Poncet and Moynot
  • 1988 Schtroumpf - Books of the Cartoon n°80 - File Gotlib
  • 1996 the 9th Art n°1 (CNBDI of Angouleme) - Scenarios of Gotlib
  • 1997 data base scope n°7/8 Rhââââ Gotlib! - Investigation Gotlib

Other internal bonds

  • the professor Burp, another of its characters
  • Police chief Bougret, caricatures Gébé

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Marcel Gotlib and the apple of Newton (video)
  • File on the " case Marcel Gotlib"
  • Homage and biography of the Express train
  • Interview filmed of Gotlib, on its influences and its characters
  • a retrospective exposure to Brussels, until the 9/17/06
  • Audio Interview of Gotlib on Kinok

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