Croc (magazine)

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| image_alt = A pile of issues of Croc

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| editor = Pierre Huet

| editor_title = Editor in Chief

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| category = Comics, Humour

| frequency = Monthly

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| publisher = Éditions Ludcom

| founder = Jacques Hurtubise

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| firstdate = October 1979

| finaldate = April 1995

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| country = Canada

| based = Montreal

| language = French

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| issn = 0226-6083

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Croc was a French-language humour magazine published monthly in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1979 until 1995.{{cite news|author1=Isabella Maher|title=Former staff of defunct Que. humour magazine talk Charlie Hebdo|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/10/former-staff-of-defunct-que-humour-magazine-talk-charlie-hebdo|accessdate=November 7, 2015|newspaper=Toronto Sun|date=January 10, 2015|location=Montreal}}

Publication history

Croc ("Fang" in French) was begun in October 1979 by Jacques Hurtubise, Hélène Fleury, and Roch Côté, with the help of an $80,000 grant from the ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec ("Québec Ministry of Cultural Affairs"{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/ministere-des-affaires-culturelles-du-quebec|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413194415/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/ministere-des-affaires-culturelles-du-quebec|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 13, 2012|title=Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec|access-date=January 13, 2011|first=Gilles|last=Potvin|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia}}). It printed the work of many leading cartoonists of the era, many of whom were able to launch their careers through the magazine's help, including animator Claude Cloutier.{{cite web|url=http://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2015/07/31/frame-x-frame-claude-cloutier/|title=Frame x Frame: Meet Filmmaker Claude Cloutier (interview)|date=31 July 2015|work=NFB.ca Blog|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=2 December 2015}}

Croc begat another magazine, Titanic, dedicated entirely to comics. Croc's publishers briefly distributed a localised edition of MAD magazine from 1991 to 1992, which adapted and translated existing MAD articles by replacing New York City references with Montreal ones.

For a number of reasons, Croc ceased publication in April 1995 after 189 issues.

References

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|author= William Swift|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|access-date = January 24, 2012}}

{{Cite web|url= http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/comics/027002-7500-e.html|title=Breaking into the Quebec Market|author=Viau, Michel|work=Library and Archives Canada|date=June 24, 2002|accessdate=January 13, 2012|author-link=Michel Viau}}

{{cite journal|last1=Spalding|first1=Eric|editor-last=Lorimer|editor-first=Rowland|year=1995|title=La bande dessinée au Québec|journal=Canadian Journal of Communication|volume=20|issue=4|issn=1499-6642|accessdate=January 16, 2011|url=http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/899/805|doi=10.22230/cjc.1995v20n4a899|doi-access=}}

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Croc (magazine)

Publication history

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