A HISTORY OF FRENCH ILLUSTRATION PART THREE (NEW VERSION)
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- This updated (and in places corrected) version replaces the video posted some time back. So if you've already seen it feel free to give it a miss. It's better video quality with a quieter music track and it now has subtitles. So do parts 1 and 2, which should be of help to those who don't speak English.
And despite my best efforts I seem to have still placed a couple of rogue images in there. The image at 4:52 was written by Forest but drawn by Paul Gillon. And at 5.28 there's a picture of a young couple which I claim is by Kiraz. It's almost certain that it is not.
I can't thank CZcams enough for putting you on my recommended list. This was so enjoyable and inspiring, that I've ordered new pens and started drawing and doodling again after many years. Thank you for the enormous amount of research you put into this.
Hello and many thanks for your glowing report of the video and channel. It means a lot, especially if it has led you to drawing again. One of the greatest human activities even if just for amusement I reckon.
Pete, I am blown away by the quality, scholarship, articulate critique and pure love of your CZcams channel. Bravo! You have made a thing of beauty and learning with this resource.
Hello and many thanks for your particularly apprciative comment about the channel. I find it very satisfying to know that viewers such as yourself enjoy what I'm trying to create.
@@petebeard I grew up paging through American illustrator annuals in my dad’s office in the 70’s (photographer Sam Haskins) and my son is now an illustrator in the USA, Oren Haskins.
@@sharpfocus5 Hello again, and thanks for the information. As a fiercely partisan illustrator I'm embarrassed to admit I was only vaguely aware of your father's remarkable life and career. And it's great to see that you are ensuring his legacy endures. And I took a look at your son's work and I'm very impressed. Modern but nods to the past too. Is he a fan of Beauville?
Your shared knowledge of these 3 French illustration videos were incredible, thank you,
MSG Leum
And once more, thank you.
I began watching these videos for my art history classes but now I just enjoy watching them for how informative and enlightening they are. Thank you for putting the time and effort into making these videos. They are really great to listen to when im doing my own work.
Hello and I'm very glad you're getting inspiration from the videos, and I hope you continue to do so.
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what an excellent series this is Mr Beard!
ahhhh I'm definitely in love with André François's line works now! Thanks yet again. Many of the artists on this list were so ahead of their time!
Hello and I agree entirely. I've always been in awe of illustrators such as François, who seem to be able to make a doodle that's easily the expressive equal of more representational styles.
Your channel is a gold mine.....can't thank you enough for the inspiring and educational content!
Hello and thanks a lot. Your appreciation is more than enough thanks.
Thank you so much for these videos. This has quickly become one of my favorite channels on CZcams! I'm loving getting to know all of these illustrators I'd never heard of before, especially being an illustrator as well. So much inspiration to be found in history!
Hello and many thanks for your support of the channel. It is particularly pleasing when professional illustrators express their appreciation and discover previously unknown greats from the past. And of course I checked out your work and what a remarkable talent you have. Watching you create a character from start to finish was very revealing and impressive. So thanks for that too.
Incredible series! I really enjoyed it and shared it. Great work on the timing and commentary for each artist. Thank you for publishing it!
Hello and a very big thankyou from me. Appreciation foe the videos - and particularly a fairly complicated and interconnected series such as this - really makes my day.
Fabulous mood. An invaluable series from Professor Beard❄️❄️
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. ButbI'm nobodys idea of a professor. More an enthusiast I think.
What amount of information, inspiration, creativity and investigation! Pete, your work is a constant source of art! Thanks for be here, thinking on us.
Hello again Gabriel. Thanks as usual for your continued appreciation. It's important to me.
Thank you again Mr. Beard.
Having been raised with Astérix, I have always been partial to the French/Belgian school of illustrators.
Very much enjoyed this segment of your series.
I always look forward to each new instalment.
Hi again and thanks for both your recent comments. I hope you don't mind that I left the Belgians out of the video (some have complained) and it would certainly have been nice to include Hergé and his various descendents. But as I was forced to point out to the complainers they are after all not the same country, even though they get lumped together.
@@petebeard No complaints at all.
The instalment is, after all, a review of French illustrators.
I also grew up with Tintin and Belgian illustrators could perhaps be the subject of a subsequent segment.
Many thanks for your continued work; it will go down in history as a unique anthology.
I am inspired by the wonderful work of these French artists. Thank you so much for this series. I would be quite happy to see an episode 4 with the artists you were unable to include. Cheers.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I'm hoping to make amends for those I left out and frankly that I didn't know about at the time by including them in the unsung heroes series of videos.
You could make a fourth. We would not mind.
We all agree then, we definitely wouldn't mind.
Hi and thanks for the positive response. Don't know about a fourth but there are a load more brilliant French illustrators lined up for inclusion in the unsung series, who didn't get a look-in here. Watch this space.
Ah, to see the work of Pierre Joubert on CZcams, truly a great satisfaction, as I love these images since my childhood.
Hello and many thanks for your comments about my French illustration series. I didn't know about Joubert's work until I researched the video, and there were quite a few others too. Sadly I also had to leave out some significant French talents just to keep the videos to a watchable length. But I'm glad to say many others from the early 20th century feature in the unsung heroes series.
@@petebeard Well, there as som many illustrators that nobody can't know everything and everyone. And with a series of videos of 15 minutes, only selected people can be spoken about, no worries about this point.
Well, Pierre Joubert (despite having been accused of pedophily) remains very important and interesting in some circles. He made a lot of illustrations, cover and inside a series a books about scoutism. I don't find the book very ood, the illustrations are wonderful, on the other hand. Moreover, he was very interested in history and made wonders with historic illustrations. Sadly, it's difficult to find artbook about his work, so he remains mainly unknown by the public. I'm glad to bring some light on his work but someone as yourself!
I'm watching again this video. How powerful images in min 8:31 Serre illustrations! We need a lot of visualisations to catch attention in every one! Styles and messages are difficult to absorb at the first time, it's the same as books in our own library, time by time I re-watch and enjoy an illustrated book - I know, they're no french ones artists - of Rien Povrtuliet and Wil Huygen, "The #1 Bestseller Gnomes", and I want to read it as an historical book! This happen only with beatiful ones!
With your videos, everytime, we discover a new world and they reveal associations and influences we not knowed until you arrive to CZcams, thanks again Pete.
I always looked forward to the next edition of the Heavy Metal magazine if only to see what Mobius was up to.
Hello again, and I must admit I was only dimly aware of the magazine and Moebius's art. It was never really my thing - I liked comics that were comic if you see what I mean. But in my old age I have warmed to many illustrators I previously had sidelined.
Wonderful. After some years in the sticks it brings me up to date from fondly remembered beginnings.
I sometime- when busy doing any manner of household things - I will just listen w/an occasional glance - and then watch again
Hello and many thanks as ever. Its the 'watch again' part I like the most, of course.
Thank you for this amazing series!
Hello and I'm grateful for your appreciation.
Another great episode. While familiar with André François and Sempé from growing up with the _New Yorker,_ and Tomi Ungerer from a still popular Austrian songbook, and of course Uderzo from Asterix, the others were all unknown to me. Thanks again for your indefatigable work here.
cheers from rainy Vienna. Scott
Rainy? Don't get me started on rainy. We invented it in these parts. Costa Blanca in a few weeks and I can hardly contain myself. Thanks for the appreciation and in case you weren't aware (shameless plug) there's an Ungerer video on the channel, if you are a fan. Thanks as ever for your comments.
@@petebeard Hey, I'm hooked on your videos, no problem. And I've seen the Toni Ungerer video already, but there are still many I haven't seen yet. Will continue checking them out.
Best wishes to your having good weather on the Costa Blanca, cheers from currently not raining Vienna, Scott
That comic style of bold simple lines is such a classic!
Hello again and I find it immensely appealing. My personal preference is for that kind of playful illustration much more than realistic painting. Probably becuse I'm a lousy painter myself!
I am very impressed and amazed about the information and deep research behind these series of your videos. This is a well done video essay on Franco-Belgian cartooning, illustrations and it’s art, i have been collecting books and magazines based on the artists from this video for many years in both French and English (I have an impressive art book collection, and it does include works by Andre Francois, Siné, Roland Topor, Tomi Ungerer and Möbius. But i also like to give out an honourable mention to other Franco-Belgian artists from the likes of George’s Wolinski (Hara Kiri/Charlie Hebdo) Guy Peelart (Creator of the very Pop Art heavy inspired comics of Pravda and Adventures of Joellie) and Fluide Glacial co founder and known creator of Rubrique la Brac, Marcel Gotlib, same with Iranian French Graphic Novelist Marjane Satrapi and some stuff by Jacques Tardi) Thank you for this video, I am loving your research. Pretty interesting stuff
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation and comment. Inevitably with videos such as these I end up leaving out more than I include, or the videos would be hours long. But in some cases they have not been included for the simple reason that they were not French. I wanted the series to be specific, even if it meant leaving personal favourites such as Hergé,Edgar Jacobs and Ever Meulen out of it. But with hindsight it wouldn't have hurt to include the Begians too. My apologies.
I hadn’t seen this one! Really cool to see behemoths of my countries art history mentioned ( Uderzo, sempé, Moebius, druillet, etc etc) next to idols I currently have in art school or even former alumni’s of my school ( Marion Montaigne, and if I’m not mistaken Winschluss)
Great work as ever Pete!
JB Monge is a dream too- a sort of French Arthur Rackham
Let me recommend a couple contemporaries in case you don’t know them : Mathieu Bablet, Jordi Lefebre, Cyril Pedrosa (though he might be Portuguese), Riad Satouf, Bastien Vivès, Kerascoet, Claude Ponti, Frédéric Pillots
Hello and many thanks for your enthusiastic response to this video. I apologise for having to leave so many modern illustrators out of the equation, but I'm on very thin ice when it comes to current trends, and much happier with the illustrators from previous eras. The trouble with now is you really dont know who's important and who isn't. That's for history to decide. But in this case it seemed to make sense to end with those who are still living. Either way I'm very grateful for the names you have listed - none of whom I've ever come across. So I'll check them out over a coffee. Thanks.
Most interesting…such a variety in art styles in illustrations
Hi again and thanks as usual. As a Brit most of our cultural influence these days comes from the USA, but there's France right next door...
Thank you for subtitles! :)
No problem. I will add subtitles to the other videos that don't currently have them too.
Thanks Pete . A great overview of contemporary french illustration. . America may dominate but it is the Europeans who give them style. Particularly enjoy Guy Billout.
And thanks for your favourable response. There are some agreeably distinctively under-drawn French giants for me. Andre Francois and Sempe in particular.
Fantastique, Monsieur Pete !!
Several of these I remember. Many more are new to me. Some of the works I must admit were not all that appealing, but several stirred fond memories of my teens and early twenties. I enjoyed them all, but at first I did not catch on that you were exhibiting more than one person. If, as you stated, you have several others that you felt you could not fit into this video then I can only say there is fodder for another round. I look forward to it, or them.
Hello again and thanks for the appreciation, as ever. There are other subjects I've tackled which I could return to, but there is still a terrifyingly long list of other works in progress, so I might have to leave them as they are, given my age.
Another refill of wonderful artistic content to top up my leaky brain. Thanks Pete.
Hello Mark. I really like your refill analogy. So much so I might pinch it for a future video. Only jesting.
@@petebeard Hi Pete, you are welcome to recycle anything I write. A work colleague of mine told me " if you give me a pound and I give you a pound we both have one pound, but if I give you an idea and you give me an idea then we both have two ideas". I think this is what the internet is about, it's about sharing, not being precious about things. Keep up the good work, you are doing a lot of sharing.
First class. You should have ten times the subscribers you actually have by now. But if you're happy to keep making these you'll always have a select & highly appreciative audience here.
Hello and many thanks. I'd always welcome more subscribers, but there seems to have been quite a surge lately (by my standards at least). 12000 and counting. World domination obviously awaits.
I love your content !
Hello and many thanks for your appreciative comments.
I used to search out the cartoons of Sempe - always subtle and comic. And I found the work of Claire Bretécher as illustrations in textbooks for children learning English when I was teaching in Russia. (Agripine, I think, the stroppy girl character, but she added a lovely touch of humour to the exercises.)
Thanks fir the comment. Teaching in Russia? Sounds like you've had an interesting career. I've done a fair bit of illustration for education in my time and it's always poorly paid but otherwise very rewarding.
@@petebeard 15 years in Russia was the most difficult and most rewarding time of my life, I miss those people very much. I didn’t pay attention to illustrations, rather to trying to read the words, but I don’t recall anything striking. (All western advertising disappeared around 2015/16.) Their children’s cartoons were traditional folk stories an the style of illustration seemed to follow behind the less representational developments you have described. In Croatia, almost a decade after the Balkan war, their cartoons were violent and ugly. Posters I recall were mostly simple, not unlike the 50s in the UK, ‘Benzine’ and government posters seeking parents to adopt orphaned children.
Superb! Thank you so much!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of this series of videos. I must say I find it fascinating to explore the cultural references and stylistic approaches in different nations.
René Gruau !❤️ I am an aspiring illustrator and he’s one of my favourites. Thank you for including his work. Your channel is so well researched and inspiring, thank you for your dedication. Have you thought about making a series about Russian/Soviet illustrators?
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the video. Gruau also features in more detail in unsung heroes of illustration 29. And I would love to do a video about Russian illustration (and some other countries too) but here in the uk information isn't in great supply. I have featured several in the unsung series and I've got a few more who are yet to be featured. So I hope you'll keep watching...
A fine survey! French artists offer us another window on the world. You can never have too many windows!
Hello again and thanks for the comment. Making this mini-series introduced me to quite a few I'd never heard of, especially in more modern times.
Wow! Superb presentation. Fascinating! As the French say: Du tonnerre!!!
Hello and thanks. I presume you hadn't seen it previously. And if so allow me to blow my own trumpet and suggest parts 1 and 2. The contribution of French illustrators can't be overstated.
When I studied fashion in the eighties, a long long time ago, I was a big fan of Tony Viramontes, René Gruau, Antonio Lopez
Hello and thanks a lot for your comments about this series. In case you havent already seen it René Gruau features in unsung heroes 29.
Much of the french I understand is due to Fluide Glacial (and a very heavy dictionary). I really think you should do more of the french illustrators as it seems to be a topic that is an absolute gold mine, but then I haven't seen whether you've added more since Feb 2021.
Hello, and I'm a bit puzzled by your request for more French illustrators. I can't think of a single unsung heroes video either before or after that date that doesn't contain at least one French illustrator. And there have been several devoted entirely to specific French illustrators including Grandville and Cheret. Just check out the channel uploads, mon ami...
@@petebeard I meant videos dedicated only to French illustrators.
Fantastic video, thank you.
Hello and many thanks for your posituve response to the video. I hope you'll continue to watch others on the channel.
Wonderful!
Hello and thanks a lot.
Fabulous!
Great channel ! A small precision : The page at 4:52 is from "Les naufragés du temps" written by Forest but drawn by Paul Gillon.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. My apologies for the mistake - I'm not all that au fait with French comics (other than cartoon style) so it was inevitable that I would make a mistake somewhere. I will put a correction in the description box.
Hi Pete.... what a collage of artists in this one. The one that stands out the most to me, as I do follow him now is the fantasy work of Monge. I believe he lives in Canada now, but don't quote me.
Hello John. That sounds likely and of course the Minions guy must be in California I'm guessing.
@@petebeard not sure, only the Monge artist, he's in Canada. That was quite a few artists in one show!
Brings back memories.
Hi and thanks. Do you mean memories of the video from earlier, or your own memories of these artists?
@@petebeard fron the original video.
Very interesting! Thanks!
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. It keeps me motivated.
Beautiful 😍 😊
Hello and many thanks for all your recent crop of 'beautifuls'.
I kept waiting for Franquin to appear on the list.. Forgot he was from belgium!
Tough the french-blegian style is called that for a reason, I suppose.
Yes I was being strictly French, but even so I had tp leave out masses of great illustrators both dead and living. It's the nature of the beast when making an overview such as this.
Right up my alley!...
Look up my post and its replies a little further down. Looking back, it's the fact that the doc opens on a Bretecher panel, and then goes on without featuring any of the greatest stars of that school and era that prompted my chiming in.
Merci, Monsieur Pierre!
C'est mon plaisir, mon ami.
More, More, More !!!
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. Many other French illustrators feature throughout the channel content.
Thanks
Hello and thanks a lot.
Its an honor to hear from you ! Reality respect your work , and this héroes are living again through their work
Those animals depicted in the very beginning makes me think that perhaps Frank Kozik may have gotten inspiration from the works.
Hello and thanks for pointing me at Kozik. Never heard of him before (I'm not that contemporary with my interests). But looking at his images it would be hard to find something he hadn't 'borrowed' in pursuit of his work. I dare say he'd justify it as irony but Im not convinced. Still, good luck to him I say.
Are you sure the picture in 5:28 was made by Kiraz? Looks like something straight out of deviantart. Regardless, I love your videos they are incredibly valuable and interesting :)
Hello and having checked I have a horrible suspicion you are absolutely correct. I can't find the original file but if it was Kiraz he was having a bad hair day as it's clumsier than his usual technique. I try to only use verified images but every once in a while something slips through. I once credited a Boris Vallejo image as a Frazetta to my eternal shame. Anyway thanks for your vigilance and I'll put some sort of disclaimer about the image in the video description box.
Jean-Claude Forest inking work always was one of my favorite and remind me Paul Pope's work.
Hello and I agree about his work. I find it really refreshing that the French have such a strong and largely independent visual identity.
@@petebeard Just by curiosity, do you know Francois Boucq? I think he 's the true virtuoso of inking in France.
@@yorik9845 Hello again and no I had never heard of him until now so thanks for that. Unfortunately he's another who should have featured in the French videos but didn't. There are always some who get under my radar. But maybe I'll find a reason to feature him in anther context.
@@petebeard You could check also Marcel Gotlib
@@zorbeclegras5708 Hello again and thanks for the name. Never heard of him before - great work!
nice
Thanks a lot and glad you like it.
Ah, Moebius!
I would have liked to feature more by him but with videos such as this time is limited for any one illustrator.
Thank you for a wonderful series.👀🎉🥸👏
Hello and many thanks for your comment. Im glad you enjoyed the work shown.
I had no idea Guy Billout was French! I obviously mispronounced his name many times, led astray by equally oblivious art directors in the Land of Duh, Houston. ;)
Hello and I'm glad I could set the record straight. I must be educational...
So many, and some i didn't know either - altough i'm a French illustration-enthousiast.
Some are even forgotten in France, such as Geo Ham (Georges Hammel) - could you make a comment on him, one time? Thank you.
Hello and thanks for the comment. And I'm pleased to say Geo Ham is in the queue waiting for his turn in the spotlight. I can't say when - I'm not that organised - but certainly in the next couple of months.
@@petebeard Many thanks!
That bomb player joke from Guy Billout looks a lot like a Charles Addams cartoon!
Hello and yes it has the same deadpan black humour. Bits of the Far Side are like that too.
nice when you write the name of the artist, because I do not understand when you say it with an American accent. at 8.56, Guy Belout? Bello? belliod, Belot, Bellow, ??1969 in New York? thank you for all your work.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. The name of the illustrator is Guy Billout, and. I'm guessing in actual French it should be pronounced 'bee-oo'. But it's an English not American accent ( I'm not offended) and all the names of the illustrators on the video appear at the end of the video so you can check them there.
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How could you not include Hergé, Franquin and Reiser? Granted, the first two are Belgian...
So you just answered your own question. Oddly enough it's a different country. And as for the last one he's in a group of god knows how many who also had to be left out to keep the video bite-sized.
@@petebeard Many people refer to the "École Franco-Belge"...
I was mainly reacting to your inclusion of Claire Bretecher, given the bevy of possible and, in my mind, superior candidates... Of course, there are not only right and wrong positions to take here. Very nice job overall, an interesting watch.
I'm going to be that Frecnh person and (politely and kindly) correct your pronunciation : René Goscinny is said as Go-ss-ee-nee the SC is very subtle and sounds mostly like a long S, and i and y both read as EE.
The name is the first thing said in this video : czcams.com/video/WUHunXq526I/video.html
I sympathize, as it's a horrible looking name to look at and decrypt, even for natives.
Recognized almost everyone in this installment! Unlike last episode, which I guess is pretty revealing. I noticed you didn't show any Boulet, so I recommend you look him up, even if for yourself. He's got some gorgeous work out there. He was one of the first french illustrator/comic artist to pioneer "blogs" as comic strips, and has had several books works of such blog posts collected and published. The blog is fan translated to English and Korean. His work on Les 24h de la BD is always a delight, check this one out : english.bouletcorp.com/2015/02/02/24-hours-comic-the-gaeneviad/
Also love what you did with the music across all four episodes. This one really made me quite nostalgic. Thanks a lot for your hard work!!
Hello and many thanks for your dedication to the channel in watching all 3 in rapid succession. I do my best with French and other languages but being English it's something we are very bad at. The irony is I would not have even mentioned him if I had got it right about who actually did the illustrations. And I'm aware that when making such videos there are always going to be glaring absences. Tgis is particularly true of more recent illustrators - I'm happiest with the world 100 years ago. I'm making amends with several important older French illustrators who I missed out and putting them in the unsung heroes video series. I will certainly look up Boulet as I've never heard of him and once again my thanks for your interest and involvement. I did my best with the music but I'm sorry some was a bit of a cliché. See - I got the acute accent in the right place...
@@petebeard Ahaha, don't worry, French people butcher the English language constantly, we have a few spelling and pronunciation horrors for each other. I hope I didn't come off like I was looking down my nose at you! And I agree, turn of the century art (last century) is really special. So many books I grew up with were still from these earlier illustrators. We study some of them in highschool as well, particularly early works like Doré's and the illustrators of the 17th century onward, like François Chauveau illustrating the Fables of La Fontaine, and other comédies de meures. It's part of literature or history classes, and still quite ubiquitous. I'm really puzzled by the amount of illustrators I didn't know working between the two wars. You've given me plenty of homework!
And no I loved the music, don't worry! A bit of cliche won't hurt, you didn't play any Edit Piaf xD
Moebius ?
Quote from the video ...The quarterly comics anthology Métal Hurlant first appeared in 1974 and was a collaboration between artists Jean Giraud, known as Mœbius and Philippe Druillet with writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet.
It was very successful for a couple of decades and it even had an impact in its spiritual home the USA.
Later issues evolved into a more journalistic format with articles and reviews but continued to give opportunities to a wider range of illustrators such as Serge Clerc, Frank Margerin and Nicole Claveloux, among many others.
@@petebeard I stand corrected. Tks :-)
Stunning and not a computer in sight.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation for the content. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Other of my favorites iconic contemporary french illustrators:
Joann Sfar : So much iconic fantasy comics that followed me all my life from "Sardine de L'espace" that you could read in the children magazine "Dlire" to "Le Chat du rabbin" that made me fall in love with his art style
Pénélope Bagieu : got known by her blog "Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante" and her feminist comicbook "Culottés" telling stories of amazing women left aside by history, i highly recommand
Tarmasz: Very bold medieval style, also a tattoo artist and a comicbook artist, her work forever changed my view on illustration
Anouk Ricard: straigh-up hilarious, don't get fooled by her naive drawing style her comic are very subversive
Lisa Mandel : she created "exemplaire" a alternative comic publishing house that allow comicbook artist to get payed properly (4/5 times more that in classic publishing)
Loïc Secheresse : amazing and expressive style and really funny
Felix Auvard : Amazing et hilarious comic "angelicalzone" on instagram
Erwann Surcouff: best sci-fi contemporary comicbook artist i know" les sauroctones" is a must read
Hello and many thanks for your list of talented French illustrators. I have already checked out a couple of them and their work is fascinating. I look forward to seeing the others and I'm sorry that none of them featured in my video. With videos such as that I always end up leaving out more than I include.