Barly Baruti
{{Short description|Congolese comics artist}}
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| birth_name = Baruti Kandolo Lilela
| birth_place = Kisangani, Congo-Léopoldville
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| nationality = Congolese (DRC)
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| alias = Barly Baruti
| notable works = Eva K, Mandrill
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Baruti Kandolo Lilela, better known by his pen name Barly Baruti (born December 9, 1959, in Kisangani, in what was then the Congo-Léopoldville{{Cite web |last=MAGNERON |first=Philippe |title=Baruti, Barly - Bibliographie, BD, photo, biographie |url=https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-3607-BD-Baruti-Barly.html |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.bedetheque.com |language=fr}}), is a Congolese (DRC) cartoonist. He has been described by the British Broadcasting Corporation as "the Congolese author best known outside his country".{{Cite news |date=2011-01-21 |title=Capturing Kinshasa through comics |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11996279 |access-date=2024-12-29 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
Biography
He studied pedagogy, then worked at the graphics studio of the French Cultural Centre in Kisangani. There, in 1982, he wrote and drew his first published comic, Le Temps d'agir (Time to Act), on environmental issues. In 1984, having won a comics competition, he was invited to study comics writing in Angoulême (France), then in 1987 worked for a few months at the Studios Hergé in Brussels. He returned to Congo, where he published several albums, then moved to Belgium in 1992. In 1994, the Cultural Centre in Kisangani published his album Objectif Terre! (Objective: Earth!), an environmental manifesto. In the late 1990s, he co-produced Eva K, a trilogy of comics albums, with Frank Giroud, followed by Mandrill, a series of seven albums.{{Cite web |title=Personnes {{!}} Africultures : Baruti Barly |url=http://africultures.com/php/?nav=personne&no=4044 |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=Africultures |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |title=Barly Baruti : bibliographie, photo, biographie |url=http://www.bdparadisio.com/scripts/detail.cfm?Id=245 |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=www.bdparadisio.com}} For these works, Baruti "replaced his semi-humorous clear line style with a more realistic one".{{Cite web |title=Barly Baruti |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/baruti_barly.htm |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=lambiek.net |language=en}}
In December 2010, he was invited to participate in the first international exhibition of African comics, in Paris.{{Cite web |title=La BD africaine fête le cinquantenaire des indépendances à Paris - Jeune Afrique.com |url=https://www.jeuneafrique.com/183629/culture/la-bd-africaine-f-te-le-cinquantenaire-des-ind-pendances-paris/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=JeuneAfrique.com |language=fr-FR}}
Baruti is the co-founder of the Atelier de Création et de l'Initiation à l'Art (Creative Workshop for an Initiation to Art) to encourage talented youth in Kinshasa.
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Category:People from Kisangani
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo comics writers
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo comics artists
Category:21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people
Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo emigrants to Belgium
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