Original Satirical Comic Strip from the World of Agrippine Bretécher

  

DO NOT HESITATE TO VISIT MY OTHER SALES. Free shipping in France via Mondial Relay to a pickup point. Condition of the item as seen in the photos - Wear and tear from time and use - Small stains in boxes 3, 7, and 9 - Please look closely at the 12 photos in the item description box. This is an original comic strip, presumably created with ink and markers, signed "Kiki" and dated April 1995.

The graphic style and character pay direct homage (or parody) to the work of the famous cartoonist Claire Bretécher (notably her series Les Frustrés). The character exhibits the characteristic traits of her heroines: slouched posture, prominent nose, tousled hair, and a disillusioned gaze. The document is dated April 1995. The dialogues reference major political-financial scandals that marked France at that time.

The Schuller affair: A corruption case linked to HLM in Hauts-de-Seine (Clichy). The Botton affair: Involving Michel Noir's son-in-law in Lyon. The OM affair: The VA-OM scandal involving Bernard Tapie (mention of a "kickback"). The line "Happy birthday Bernard" seems to address Bernard Tapie, who celebrated his 52nd birthday in early 1995 and was at the center of a judicial storm. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY.

This ink drawing belonged to someone who is no longer with us. The artist is not clearly identified.

Claire Bretécher was a French humorist comic book author and illustrator born on April 17, 1940, in Nantes and died on February 11, 2020, in Paris 10. After collaborating with major Franco-Belgian youth press titles in the 1960s like Record, Tintin, and Spirou, Bretécher contributed to the emergence of adult Francophone comic books by joining Pilote in 1969 and co-founding L'Écho des savanes in 1972. From 1973 to 1981, she published a series of one or two-page gags mocking the behaviors of the urban French intellectual bourgeoisie in the general information weekly Le Nouvel Observateur under the title Les Frustrés, the first successful Francophone comic strip based on. Subsequently, while occasionally working for the press, she continued to explore the sociology of the urban upper middle class, dedicating albums to motherhood, medicine, tourism, and then to adolescence. As the only woman to have collaborated with major classic Franco-Belgian periodicals, Claire Bretécher gained considerable notoriety from the early 1970s, which increased throughout the decade thanks to her collaboration with Le Nouvel Observateur.

Regularly invited in the media and translated into many languages, this major author of Francophone comic books received several important awards, including a special grand prize at Angoulême in 1982 awarded by previous winners. In 2015, she was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Public Information Library of the Pompidou Center.

In addition to her comics, Bretécher worked extensively in advertising and created a painted work that has been collected in several volumes. She was also a pioneer in self-publishing comic book albums, a practice she engaged in from 1975 to the mid-2000s.

Les Frustrés (in 1975) and Agrippine (in 2001) were adapted into animated series. Shipments are made with protection and sometimes insurance is associated with the shipment.

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