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Gotlib (Marcel Mordekhaï Gottlieb) was born on 14 July, 1934 in Paris, France, is a Marcel Gottlieb known professionally as Gotlib. Discover Gotlib's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Marcel Mordekhaï Gottlieb
Occupation N/A
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 14 July 1934
Birthday 14 July
Birthplace Paris, France
Date of death 4 December, 2016
Died Place Le Vésinet, Yvelines departement, France
Nationality France

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1934

Marcel Gottlieb (14 July 1934 – 4 December 2016), known professionally as Gotlib, was a French comics artist/writer and publisher.

Through his own work and the magazines he co-founded, L'Écho des savanes and Fluide Glacial, he was a key figure in the switch in French-language comics from their children's entertainment roots to an adult tone and readership.

His series include Rubrique-à-Brac, Gai-Luron, and Superdupont.

Marcel Gottlieb was born on 14 July 1934 in Paris to parents of Romanian and Hungarian Ashkenazi Jewish descent.

His father, Ervin, was a house painter and his mother, Regine, a seamstress.

1942

In 1942 his father was deported and died at Buchenwald after their building's concierge obligingly helped policemen to find him, a scene which made a strong impression on young Marcel.

His mother sent him to hide for the rest of the war on a farm, where he was poorly treated.

At 17, he left school to work for a pharmaceutical agency while taking art classes in the evening.

This led to a job as a letterer at Opera Mundi, a French publisher which translated and published US strips.

After his 28-month military service, Gotlib settled as a freelance letterer and illustrator.

His first comics were accepted by Vaillant, a magazine for children later renamed Pif-Gadget.

His one long-running series at Vaillant started as Nanar, Jujube et Piette, which was renamed Nanar et Jujube then Gai-Luron for the supporting character who had by then taken centre stage.

Gai-Luron is a dog heavily influenced by Tex Avery's Droopy, who almost never laughs or displays any emotions and is incorrigibly somnolent.

1965

In 1965 Gotlib submitted strips to Pilote magazine and was greeted with open arms by its influential co-founder and editor, René Goscinny of Astérix fame.

Together they created Les Dingodossiers, a series of mock lectures on random subjects which Goscinny wrote and Gotlib drew.

1967

In 1967, Goscinny, who worked on many strips simultaneously while editing the magazine, asked Gotlib to continue the series alone.

Gotlib instead launched a new one, Rubrique-à-Brac, which was similar to the Dingodossiers in format but progressively acquired a more adult and less formal tone.

Leftover pages from both series were later published in album form as Trucs-en-vrac.

Rubrique-à-Brac was a hit with Pilote's readers and made Gotlib famous.

It introduced several signature Gotlib gimmicks, such as the extensive use of random running gags (Isaac Newton getting hit on the head by random objects being the omnipresent one) and the presence of a miniature character, a ladybug mimicking the action, to make up for the absence of settings, which Gotlib disliked drawing.

1971

In 1971, Gotlib gave up the Gai-Luron series to his collaborator Henri Dufranne.

1972

In 1972, Gotlib launched the comics magazine l'Écho des savanes with Claire Bretecher and Nikita Mandryka.

The original aim was to get stories unsuitable for Pilote magazine—which was aimed at school-age readers—out of their system, but l'Écho des savanes was a huge commercial success.

However, the trio's complete lack of business training meant the magazine went deep in the red and they were forced to sell it to a publishing concern.

Gotlib's contributions to the magazine were published in album form as Rhââ Lovely (named after a rapist's line in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy) and Rha-Gnagna.

Those stories are mostly concerned with smashing taboos and feature much sexuality and other bodily functions, as well as cod-psychoanalysis and pot shots at authority figures of all kinds including divinities.

Gotlib, Mandryka and Brétécher stopped working for l'Echo des Savanes after selling it.

Gotlib saw there was a strong market for adult comics and decided to start a new publication and have it run more professionally.

To do this, he enrolled childhood friend, Jacques Diament, as administrator and another Pilote veteran, Alexis to help with the creative direction, and founded Fluide Glacial and parent publishing company 'Audie', a comically misspelled acronym of "Amusement, Umour, Derision, Ilarité Et toutes ces sortes de choses".

Fluide Glacial launched the career of a number of unknown or little-known cartoonists, most of whom were influenced by Gotlib in the first place: Édika, Goossens and Dupuy & Berberian.

Belgian veteran André Franquin contributed his Idées Noires strip.

1974

He participated in a radio program with Goscinny, Fred and Gébé, and collaborated with film director Patrice Leconte, who made a documentary about him in 1974.

Gotlib created another character, Hamster Jovial, for music monthly Rock & Folk.

Hamster Jovial ("Genial Hamster") is an incurably naff boy-scout troop leader desperate to catch up with pop culture and impress his charges, two cubs and a girl guide.

1977

Alexis died of aneurysm rupture in 1977, leaving Gotlib and Diament in charge, though he is credited to this day as "Director of conscience" of Fluide Glacial.

Gotlib created two characters in Fluide Glacial: Superdupont with Jacques Lob and Pervers Pépère.

Superdupont is a French, highly patriotic answer to US super-heroes who wears a vest and beret and fights a secret organisation called Anti-France.

Gotlib mostly wrote or co-wrote Superdupont stories, though he drew a handful of them.

The strip was successful enough to be made into a stage show by Jérôme Savary.

Pervers Pépère is a stereotypical mac-sporting dirty old man who appeared in one-page stories.