Gérard Lauzier

Gérard Lauzier 30 November 1932 6 December 2008 was a French comics author and movie director best known as one of the leading authors in the more adultoriented French comics scene of the 1970s and 1980s Gérard Lauzier was born in Marseille on 30 November 1932 He studied philosophy and afterwards architecture at the École des BeauxArts in Paris He worked in a press agency before travelling to Brazil where he collaborated on the new capital Brasilia In 1959 he got conscription for the Algerian War In Brazil he contributed editorial cartoons to Jornal do Bahia until he left the country in the wake of the 1964 military coup Back in France he worked for a number of magazines most notably the soft erotic Lui where he made the series Les sextraordinaires aventures de Zizi et Peter Panpan His major comics work appeared in the FrancoBelgian comics magazine Pilote where he worked between 1974 and 1985 by this time Pilote magazine had moved in a more adult direction His main series of this period are Lili Fatale and Tranches de vie His most iconic character is Michel Choupon an oversexed and philosophical 18yearold who starred in the comic Souvenirs dun Jeune Homme and in the movie Ptit Con In later years he became a film director sometimes with movies based on his comics or on new stories His most famous film is the 1991 Mon père ce héros with Gérard Depardieu remade in English as My Father the Hero Other titles include Le fils du Français with Josiane Balasko and Fanny Ardant and Je vais craquer with Christian Clavier In 1996 he directed The Best Job in the World which was entered into the 20th Moscow International Film Festival He also contributed dialogues to other movies including the 1999 Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar He died on 6 December 2008 in Paris aged 76 Source Article Gérard Lauzier from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30