Gillon Paul

Paul Gillon was a French comic artist, born in Parisin 1926 and died in Amiens in 2011. He grew up reading American comics by, among others, Alex Raymond, Milton Caniff, Harold Foster and McManus. At the age of fifteen, he was already earning money making caricatures and illustrations to accompany song lyrics in various magazines. In 1946, he started working for the Catholic youth magazine Vaillant, where he continued existing comic series for ten years. He later worked for Radar, France-Soir (daily comic strip 13 rue de l’Espoir), Mickey (Le temps des copains, La déesse d’or, Barbe-Noir), and Pif (Jeremie). From the 1970s onwards, he increasingly wrote his own scripts. His first original series was Jeremie, followed by Schipbreuk in de Tijd (Shipwreck in Time), which started with a script by Jean-Claude Forest and was later continued by Gillon himself. Awarded the Grand Prix de la ville d’Angoulême in 1982. Only a limited part of his work was published in Dutch. (BT)