Nicole Claveloux
{{Short description|French painter, illustrator and comic book artist (born 1940)}}
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| caption = Claveloux at the Angoulême Festival 2020
| alt = Nicole Claveloux at the Angoulême Festival 2020
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|6|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Saint-Étienne, France
| nationality = French
| known_for = Painting, illustration, comics
| name = Nicole Claveloux
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Nicole Claveloux ({{IPA|fr|klav(ə)lu|lang}}; born 23 June 1940) is a French painter, illustrator and comic book artist.
Biography
Nicole Claveloux was born in Saint-Étienne, France, and studied fine arts there. She moved to Paris in 1966, where she worked as an illustrator and comics artist for various magazines, including Planète, {{ill|Okapi (magazine)|lt=Okapi |fr}} and Marie Claire.{{cite web |url=http://www.editions-thierry-magnier.com/auteur.php?id=13362 |title=Nicole Claveloux |publisher=Editions Thierry Magnier |language=fr}}
Her illustration style incorporates both psychedelic use of colour and sophisticated black-and-white images.{{cite web |url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/547319/the-green-hand-and-other-stories-by-nicole-claveloux-introduction-by-daniel-clowes-translated-from-the-french-by-donald-nicholson-smith/9781681371078/ |title=The Green Hand and Other Stories |publisher=Penguin Random House}}
Her work was included in several exhibitions, including Nicole Claveloux et compagnie at Villeurbanne in 1995 and a retrospective at the Mediatheque Hermeland at Saint-Herblain.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MhKBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT101 |title=Dictionnaire de la Bande dessinée |pages=101–03 |publisher=Encyclopaedia Universalis |year=2015 |isbn=978-2341002301 |language=fr}}
Selected works
- Le Voyage extravagant de Hugo Brisefer (1967)
- Alala: Les télémorphoses (1970), illustrator. Published by Harlin Quist in English as The Teletrips of Alala
- Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles (1972), illustrator
- La Main verte (1978), comic book featuring a series of short stories from Métal Hurlant. Published in English in 2017 as The Green Hand
- Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue (1981), illustrator
- Dedans les gens (1993), received the Prix Totem Album at the {{ill|Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse|fr}} in Montreuil
- Alboum (1998), illustrator, text by {{ill|Christian Bruel|fr}} received the Prix Sorcières{{cite web |url=http://lajoieparleslivres.bnf.fr/masc/Integration/JOIE/statique/univ/interfaceschoisies/Bruel_auteur/rubrique_createur_a%20propos%20de.html |title=Christian Bruel |publisher=Centre national de la littérature pour la jeunesse |language=fr}}
- Morceaux choisis de la Belle et la Bête, erotic book (2003), illustrator
- Mon Gugus à moi (2004), illustrator, received the {{ill|Prix Cécile-Gagnon|fr}}{{cite web |url=https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lisez-sur-le-sujet/015020-054049-f.html |title=Prix Cécile-Gagnon 2004 |work=Prix de langue française |publisher=Library and Archives Canada |language=fr}}
- Un roi, une princesse et une pieuvre (2005), illustrator, received the Prix Goncourt Jeunesse{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p91TDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT2 |title=La guerre en vacances |page=2 |last=du Boucheron |first=Bernard |year=2016 |publisher=Editions du Rocher |isbn=978-2268085395 |language=fr}}
- Professeur Totem et docteur Tabou (2006), illustrator
- Gargantua (2007), illustrator
- Confessions d'un monte-en-l'air, erotic book (2007), illustrator
- Contes de la Fève et du Gland, erotic book (2010), illustrator
- La Belle et la bête, children's book (2013), illustrator
- Nours, children's book (2014), illustrator
- Quel genre de bisous ?, children's book (2016)
- The Green Hand and Other Stories (2017), with Édith Zha, translated into English by Donald Nicholson-Smith
References
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External links
- {{cite web |url=http://nicole.claveloux.free.fr/ |title=Site officiel de Nicole Claveloux |language=fr}}
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Category:French women illustrators
Category:French comics artists