Édika
{{short description|French cartoonist}}
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| birth_name = Édouard Karali
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|12|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = Heliopolis, Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt
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| notable works = Pom-Pom Pidou-Waah (1996)
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Édika is the pen name of Édouard Karali (born 17 December 1940), a French comics artist, who is renowned for his distinctively absurd style. A number of his comic strips have been translated into several European languages such as; English (published by Knockabout Comics), Spanish, Italian (in the magazine Totem comic), German (published by Alpha Comics), Swedish (published by Epix), Danish (published by Runepress) and Greek (in the magazines Vavel and Para Pente).
Biography
Initially working for the advertising industry in Egypt, he moved to France where his works were published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazines Pilote, Charlie Mensuel, and Psikopat, the magazine of his brother Paul Carali.{{Cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia|title=Édika|url= http://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/edika.htm}} A major milestone in his career as a comics artist was his cooperation with Gotlib, becoming a main contributor to the comics magazine Fluide Glacial.
Style
A typical Édika 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).
Notes
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References
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- [http://bdoubliees.com/fluideglacial/auteurs2/edika.htm Edika publications in Fluide Glacial] and [http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/auteurs2/edika.htm Pilote] – BDoubliées {{in lang|fr}}
- [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-59-BD-Edika.html Edika albums] – Bedetheque {{in lang|fr}}
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External links
- [http://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/edika.htm Edika biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia
- [http://www.blougou.com/edika/ Edika : fluide glacial sur la BD] {{in lang|fr}}
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Category:French comics artists
Category:French comics writers
Category:Egyptian comics artists
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