Pierre Guitton
{{Short description|French painter and comic book author (1944–2021)}}
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| birth_place = Loches, France
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| nationality = French
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| occupation = Painter
Comic book author
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Pierre Guitton (16 March 1944 – 20 July 2021) was a French painter and comic book author and artist.{{cite news |last=Bouchet|first=Bruno|date=22 July 2021|title=Indre-et-Loire : l'artiste lochois Pierre Guitton est décédé|trans-title= |url=https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/tours/indre-et-loire-l-artiste-lochois-pierre-guitton-est-decede|language=French|work=La Nouvelle République|location=Indre-et-Loire|access-date=26 July 2021}} He notably designed the pages of Charlie Mensuel and Hara-Kiri.
Biography
Guitton studied at the {{ill|École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours|fr}}, where he earned a degree in painting in 1962.{{cite web|url=https://zine.lechantdesmuses.fr/guitton_dans_papiers_nickeles|title=Pierre Guitton|work=Le Chant des Muses|language=French|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016081804/https://zine.lechantdesmuses.fr/guitton_dans_papiers_nickeles|archivedate=16 October 2019}} In 1969, he began his career at Charlie Mensuel. In 1971, he founded the magazine Zinc alongside {{ill|Nicoulaud|fr}}, where they published underground comic strip reviews. The magazine folded in 1974.
From 1975 to 1987, Guitton published his designs and comic strips in Charlie Mensuel Hara-Kiri, À Suivre, and Zero. In 1987, he ceased collaboration with all magazines and devoted himself to painting. He became a well-known painter throughout Indre-et-Loir, participating in multiple artistic exhibitions and cultural manifestations.
In 2011, a retrospective titled Pierre Guitton rétrospective : Et c'est pas fini ! was published. It highlighted his designs published in Charlie Mensuel and Zinc. In 2018, another retrospective titled Contes du Lapin jaune covered his publications in À Suivre from 1985 to 1987.{{cite news |last=Calmeilles|first=Pierre|date=5 November 2018|title=Une exposition à la mesure de l’art “ singulier ” de Pierre Guitton|trans-title= |url=https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/loches/une-exposition-a-la-mesure-de-l-art-singulier-de-pierre-guitton|language=French|work=La Nouvelle République|location=Loches|access-date=26 July 2021}}
Pierre Guitton died on 20 July 2021 at the age of 77.{{cite news |last=Hojlo|first=Frédéric|date=23 July 2021|title=Disparition du peintre et dessinateur Pierre Guitton, figure de l’underground français des années 1970 et 1980|trans-title= |url=https://www.actuabd.com/Disparition-du-peintre-et-dessinateur-Pierre-Guitton-figure-de-l-underground|language=French|work=ActuaBD|location= |access-date=26 July 2021}}
Publications
- Tout doit disparaître (1978)
- Et c’est pas fini ! : rétrospective Pierre Guitton (2011)
- Les contes de Lapin Jaune (2018)
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