[SKRIVA] Fransk seriepionjär avliden
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:02:12 +0200
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/jean_paul_mougin_1941_2011/
September 14, 2011
Jean-Paul Mougin, 1941-2011
Jean-Paul Mougin, the co-founder and long-time editor of seminal
French comics magazine À Suivre, died in Brussels yesterday at the age
of 70. Although an official cause of death has yet to be announced, he
was a longtime sufferer of complications due to throat cancer.
Mougin came to prominence in the late 1960s as the editor of a revived
Pif Gadget from Editions Valliant. Under Mougin's stewardship that
magazine flashed over one million copies sold in both 1970 and 1971,
and introduced French-language readers to Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese
in addition to a number of other heavyweights and eventual
heavyweights of French comics such as Jean-Claude Forest, Paul Gillon
and Gotlib. It was also noteworthy for its move away from heavy
serialization and the favor it gave to more complete stories, a
practice Mougin would later bring to his signature assignment. In
1972, his connection to Pratt enabled Mougin's recruitment to
Casterman, where he assisted in the publication of well-received
albums such as Hugo Pratt's La Ballade de la mer salée, a 1975
Angoulême debut and 1976 festival prize winner.
In 1978, Mougin co-founded and became the primary editorial voice for
À Suivre, one of the foundational magazines of both French comics and
for world comics with serious literary or art-comic aspirations. It
was another well-publicized Angoulême Festival debut. In addition to
Pratt, A Suivre would publish Alejandro Jodorowsky, Moebius, Milo
Manara, Jacques de Loustal, Jacques Tardi, François Bourgeon, Ted
Benoît, Guido Crepax, Vittorio Giardino and François Schuiten among
dozens of others. The line-up in the first issue alone could have
fueled an entire publishing line. The vastly influential, arch and
metaphor-laden Forest/Tardi work Ici Même, recently republished in
North America by Fantagraphics, launched with the magazine.
À Suivre became such a touchstone of a certain, seriously-intended
approach to comics that some cartoonist's careers were marked by the
publishing choices they made after not finding favor with Mougin and
the magazine. It is also cited as the major factor in Casterman's
transformation from staid publisher of traditional French comics and
potential cultural oblivion; one obituary suggests that the black and
white nature of the majority of those comics was in part because it
made their publication less of a risk for the big-name house. À Suivre
came to an end in 1997 after 239 issues, in roughly the same period as
a serious, new wave of alternative comics began to take hold in the
market. It is widely considered one of a half-dozen of the most
important BD magazines of the 20th Century. Mougin moved to Brussels
and apparently enjoyed a quiet retirement, in part because of his
illness.
AE: Från utländsk källa, som synes. Man kan väl notera att franska serier
tenderat att vara mycket sf/f-inspirerade med tidskrifter som Metal Hurlant
(Heavy Metal, på engelska) samt serien Linda & Valentin (vars skapare också
bevistat en svensk sf-con). För att nämna något.
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