| Yves Chaland | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 3, 1957 Lyon, France |
| Died | July 18, 1990 (aged 33) |
| Nationality | French |
| Area(s) | artist, writer |
| Notable works | Bob Fish Adolphus Claar Freddy Lombard |
| Awards | full list |
Yves Chaland (April 3, 1957 in Lyon, France – July 18, 1990, France (car accident))[1] 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.
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Chaland published his first strips in the fanzine Biblipop when he was 17. During his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Saint-Etienne, he created his own fanzine, L'Unité de Valeur, in 1976, with Luc Cornillon.[2]
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 the Marolles, a working-class area of Brussels. Yves Chaland, was approached to draw an adventure of Spirou et Fantasio, appearinging in half-page installments of the weekly Spirou. 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.
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).
A Magazine contribute to the knowledge of Chaland's artwork, The Journal of Freddy's friends is also available in English.