Édika

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Édika

Birth name	Édouard Karali
Born	December 17, 1940 (1940-12-17) (age 67) Heliopolis, Egypt
Nationality	French
Area(s)	artist, writer
Pseudonym(s)	Edi
Notable works	Pom-Pom-Pidou-Waah

Édika is the nom de plume of Édouard Karali, a French comics artist, born December 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 by Knockabout Comics), Spanish and Italian (in the magazine Totem comics).

1 Biography
2 Style
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 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.^[1] A major milestone in his career as a comics artist was his cooperation with Marcel Gotlieb, becoming a main contributor to the comics magazine Fluide Glacial.

[edit] Style

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-references. 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).