Serge Chapleau

Serge Chapleau (born December 5, 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is a famous Quebec caricaturist.

Biography

After studying painting and graphic art at the School of Fine Arts in Montreal, Chapleau created in 1971 a caricature of the songbook Gilles Vigneault for "Perspectives", a weekly paper distributed with the Saturday Editions of several Quebec dailys.

During the following years, Chapleau collaborated in several other publications, such as " [Montreal Morning-Matin one] ', "Weekend", "current Event" and "We". Following "The Duty" in 1985, he worked on the "Morning" in 1987, and 7 days of 1989 to 1992. After a return to the "To Have" in 1991, he became in 1996 a cartoonist at "La Presse", a post that he continues to occupy.

Since 2004, his puppet character Gérard D. Laflaque, returned to television in CGI form on "Et Dieu créa Laflaque".

Spasm of Dupuytren

He suffers from Dupuytren's contracture.

Honours and publications

Serge Chapleau is a nine-time finalist at the Canadian Journalism Competititon of the Canadian Association of Newspapers, from 1995 to 2006; he won first place on five separate occasions.

Since 1993, Éditions du Boréal has published an annual collection of his best caractures, "L'année Chapleau".

From May 22 1997 to September 20 1998, the Musée McCord presented an exhibit on the works of Chapleau Aislin, "Aislin & Chapleau Caricatures".

External links

* [http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/143q.html McCord Museum — Aislin & Chapleau Caricatures]
* [http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/webtours/VQ_P4_6_EN.html Funny and Moody : The Best of Chapleau's Cartoons]