- Édika
Infobox Comics creator
name = Édika
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birthname = Édouard Karali
birthdate = birth date and age|1940|12|17
location = Heliopolis,Egypt
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nationality = French
area = artist, writer
alias = Edi
notable works = "Pom-Pom-Pidou-Waah"
awards =Édika is the
nom de plume of Édouard Karali, a French comics artist, bornDecember 17 ,1940 in Heliopolis,Egypt , who is renowned for his distinctively absurd style. A number of his comic strips have been translated into English (published byKnockabout Comics ), Spanish and Italian (in the magazine "Totem comics").Biography
Initially working for the advertising industry in
Egypt , he moved to France where his works were published in the comics magazines "Pilote ", "Charlie Mensuel " and "Psikopat", the magazine of his brother Paul Carali.Cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia|title=Édika|url= http://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/edika.htm] A major milestone in his career as a comics artist was his cooperation withMarcel Gotlieb , becoming a main contributor to the comics magazine "Fluide Glacial ".tyle
A typical Edika comics episode involves a plot structured in a complex and often inconsequential fashion, filled with verbose dialogues and a lot of
meta-reference s. Most of those episodes don't have an ending.Recurring characters are Bronski Proko and sometimes his family: wife Olga, kids Paganini (or just Nini) and Georges, and a non-speaking cat with an otherwise human behaviour, named Clarke Gaybeul (deliberately homophone to
Clark Gable ).References
* [http://bdoubliees.com/fluideglacial/auteurs2/edika.htm Edika publications in "Fluide Glacial"] and [http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/auteurs2/edika.htm "Pilote"] BDoubliées fr_icon
* [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-59-BD-Edika.html Edika albums] Bedetheque fr_iconFootnotes
External links
* [http://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/edika.htm Edika biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia
* [http://www.blougou.com/edika/ Edika : fluide glacial sur la BD] fr icon
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