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 adult-oriented[1]French comics scene of the 1970s and 1980s.
Gérard Lauzier was born in Marseille on 30 November 1932.[2] He studied philosophy and afterwards architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[3] He worked in a press agency before travelling to Brazil, where he collaborated on the new capital Brasilia.[2] In 1959, he got conscription for the Algerian War.[3]
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 Franco-Belgian 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.[2] His most iconic character is Michel Choupon, an oversexed and philosophical 18-year-old, who starred in the comic Souvenirs d'un Jeune Homme and in the movie P'tit Con.[4]
In 1981, publisher Dargaud released a two volume collection Lauzier (Intégrale), containing Tranches de vie I, II, III, IV in the first volume, and La course du rat - La tête dans les sac - Lili fatale - L'île grande in the second one.[7]
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