Pellos

Rene Pellos known as Pellos of its true name Rene Pellarin (Born the January 22nd 1900 with Lyon - Deceased the April 8th 1998 with Mougins) is a Scénariste and Dessinateur of Cartoons French.

Savoyard parents , the small Rene Pellarin, future Pellos, is born with the century, with Lyon the January 22nd 1900. His/her parents try to make him follow a formation to the school of the Art schools of Geneva which it leaves by claquant the door as of the first lesson. Pellos will thus have learned its trade only “ on the heap ”. Its “ blow of leg ” enables him to enter as of 16 years as draftsman of press a satirical newspaper: Gugusse , then in other regional newspapers. In parallel, it practices the Football, the Rugby, the Boxe and collaborates in sporting magazines.

Quickly adopted by the public, it was proposed to him to follow the Tour de France, of which he was the draftsman of press and Caricaturiste fetish during many years. The career of Pellos was prolific as cartoons and, even it is not a question themselves of its major work, its production of a hundred albums of the Pieds Nickelled in 30 years, after the Second world war, marked the universe of the data base Less known, but undoubtedly more original, it revolutionized the style Science-fiction with Futuropolis, a superb cartoon of Anticipation appeared in Junior of 1938 with 1940. Pellos is deceased on April 8th 1998 with Cannes at the 98 years age, whereas he was the senior of the draftsmen of French cartoons.

Sporting press and books for children

Match the intransigent of 1931 to 1939,
Books of sporting France in 1941,
Sport digest of 1949 to 1952,
Mirror-Sprint of 1949 to 1971 Sport-World
of 1956 to 1967

Its caricatures on the Tour de France were worth a true notoriety to him; its mountains took human face, laughed, were astonished or become menaçantes with the passage of the runners grimaçant under the effort. it will crunch during years the high-speed motorboats of the group but also the obscure ones, the water carriers, for titles like Miroir of Cycling, Miroir Sprint or World Sport. Antonin Magne, Fausto Coppi, Federico Bahamontès, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx and well of others will be immortalisés on paper, often grimaçant under the effort or flying away in the collars.

The mountain

Impassioned mountain, it will pass about half of its life close to Mont Blanc, in Saint-Gervais. It will magnificiently illustrate it colors, in books for children of Philippe Gaussot appeared about 1946 in the editor Jean Landru with Chamonix: You-pi the chamois, Tschirb the chouca and Hoppy the marmot.

Monograph

universe of Pellos , Foray-Russet-red Bernard, editions of the traboules, 2007.

Books of the cartoon (Schtroumpf) n° 31: PELLOS (1976)

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