Topor Roland

Roland Topor (Paris 1938 - 1977 Paris) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comic artist, painter, novelist, playwright, playwright, filmmaker, and actor known for the surreal nature of his work. Topor was of Polish-Jewish descent and spent the first years of his life in Savoy, where his family hid him from the Nazis.

Topor was best known for his absurd cartoons, including those for Charlie Hebdo, which always carry a macabre quality. He also created illustrations for books by authors such as Tolstoy and Marcel Aymé, drawing on his own surreal and satirical view of the world.[4] His novels and short stories also almost all have a cruel character. He wrote his first novel, Le Locataire chimérique, in 1964. It was adapted into a film by Roman Polanski in 1976 as The Tenant. (Wikipedia)