Yves Chaland

Infobox Comics creator
name = Yves Chaland


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birthdate = April 3, 1957
location = Lyon, France
deathdate = death date and age|1990|7|18|1957|4|3
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nationality = French
area = artist, writer
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notable works = "Bob Fish" "Adolphus Claar" "Freddy Lombard"
awards = full list

Yves Chaland (born April 3, 1957 in Lyon, France; died July 18, 1990 (car accident) was a French cartoonist.

During the 1980s, together with Ted Benoît, Serge Clerc and Floc'h, he relaunched the "Ligne claire" style (more accurately, his sub-genre the "futuristic" "Atomic style") in French comics.

Biography

Chaland published his first strips in the fanzine "Biblipop" when he was 17. During his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Saint-Etienne, France, he created his own fanzine, "L'Unité de Valeur", in 1976, with Luc Cornillon.Cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia|title=Yves Chaland|url= http://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/chaland.htm]

In 1978, he met writer/editor Jean-Pierre Dionnet, and they collaborated on features published in the comics magazines "Métal Hurlant" and "Ah Nana". These parodies of 50's comics have been collected in the album "Captivant".

He then created the characters of "Bob Fish", "Adolphus Claar", "Freddy Lombard", and "Le Jeune Albert", a scamp character living in Marolles, a neighborhood of Brussels. Yves Chaland, was approached to draw an adventure of "Spirou et Fantasio", appearinging in half-page installments of the weekly Spirou magazine. Done in a retro 50's style similar to his influences Jijé and André Franquin, both former artists on the Spirou feature. The unfinished story has been collected in the album " Spirou et Fantasio - Hors Série, No. 4" (Dupuis, 2003).

He also did many advertising illustration commissions in his crisp, clean, "retro-modern" cartoon style.

Books published in English

Like many Franco-Belgian comics, Chaland's works have had limited publication in English. The complete Freddy Lombard series was released in the two volume Chaland Anthology. These were the only two released in English(in both paper and hardback, in 2003), while 4 volumes were released in French, containing his complete comic strip works for Métal Hurlant. (Chaland - L'Intégrale).

Partial bibliography

* "Captivant" 1st ed. 1979
* "Bob Fish" 1st ed. 1981
* "Adolphus Claar" 1st ed. 1982
* "John Bravo" pre-publication in Astrapi in 1983
* "The Adventures of Freddy Lombard"
# "The Will of Godfrey of Bouillon" ("Le Testament de Godefroid de Bouillon") 1st ed. 1981
# "The Elephant Graveyard" ("Le Cimetière des éléphants")1st ed. 1984
# "The Comet of Carthage" ("La Comète de Carthage") 1st ed. 1986
# "Holiday in Budapest" ("Vacances à Budapest") 1st ed. 1988
# "F-52" 1st ed. 1990
* "Le Jeune Albert" 1st ed. 1985

Awards

* 1982: Best Comic at the Prix Saint-Michel, Belgium
* 1984 : Betty Boop of the best comics of the year for "The Elephant Graveyard" in Hyères

References

* [http://bdoubliees.com/metalhurlant/auteurs1/chaland.htm Yves Chaland publications in "Metal Hurlant"] and [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/auteurs1/chaland.htm "Spirou"] BDoubliées fr_icon
* [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-23-BD-Chaland-Yves.html Yves Chaland albums] Bedetheque fr_icon

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/chaland.htm Yves Chaland biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia
* [http://www.atoomstijl.nl/chaland/ Yves Chaland homage site] by "Atoomstijl"
* [http://oeuvreseverin.forumculture.net/Les-Amis-de-Freddy-f31/Club-friends-of-Freddy-Club-de-vrienden-van-Freddy-t671.htm#19566/ Yves Chaland Fan Club : Club Les Amis de Freddy] on a french Forum

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