Raymond Poïvet

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Raymond Poïvet (1910-August 30, 1999) was a French cartoonist.

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Poïvet was born in 1910 in Le Cateau-Cambrésis.

After studies in École des Beaux-Arts of Paris, he started in comics in 1941. He joined in 1945 the communist French comics weekly magazine Vaillant, which was renamed Pif in 1969. He created the first and longest running French science-fiction comics : Les Pionniers de l'Espérance, which lasted until 1973. The scenarios were written by Roger Lecureux. Meanwhile, he also draws for other comics and feminine magazines : Colonel X in Coq hardi, Mam'zelle Nitouche in L'Humanité and Guy Lebleu in Pilote. He died on August 30, 1999 in Nogent-le-Rotrou (Eure-et-Loir).