Tignous

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Bernard Jean-Charles Verlhac (21 August 1957 – 7 January 2015), known by the pseudonym Tignous ({{IPA|fr|tiɲus}}, from {{langx|oc|Tinhós}}), was a French cartoonist. He was a long-time staff cartoonist for the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

On 7 January 2015, Tignous was killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting.{{cite news|title=Charlie Hebdo: les dessinateurs Cabu, Charb, Tignous et Wolinski sont morts|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2015/01/07/97001-20150107FILWWW00188--charlie-hebdo-les-dessinateurs-cabu-charb-tignous-et-wolinski-sont-morts.php|accessdate=7 January 2015|work=Le Figaro|date=7 January 2015|language=French}}

Biography

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Tignous was born in Paris on 21 August 1957.{{cite news|work=Le Figaro|author=François Aubel|date=7 January 2015|accessdate=14 January 2015|title=Tignous, trait talentueux|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2015/01/07/03004-20150107ARTFIG00396-tignous-trait-talentueux.php|language=French}} He studied drawing at the École Boulle. After working in the comic book field, Tignous began doing cartoons for L'Idiot International, La Grosse Bertha, and L'Événement du jeudi.

Tignous first began working at Charlie Hebdo in 1980,{{cite news|author=Lucy Cormack|title=Charlie Hebdo: Daughter's Instagram post a reminder of the people behind the pencil|url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/charlie-hebdo-daughters-instagram-post-a-reminder-of-the-people-behind-the-pencil-20150108-12jzm8.html|accessdate=8 January 2015|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=8 January 2015}} and then rejoined the weekly when it was reborn in 1992. He was also a contributor to the weekly news magazine Marianne and the monthly publication Fluide Glacial.{{cite news|author=Theo Merz|title=Paris shooting: the cartoonists who were killed|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11330557/Paris-shooting-the-cartoonists-who-were-killed.html|accessdate=7 January 2015|work=The Telegraph|date=7 January 2015}} In addition, he drew for Télérama and L'Echo des Savanes.{{cite news|author=Pierre Perrone|title=Bernard Verlhac: Versatile and prolific caricaturist who was a thorn in the side of Nicolas Sarkozy|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/bernard-verlhac-cartoonist-who-encapsulated-charlie-hebdos-confrontational-and-courageous-brand-of-satire-9966368.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/bernard-verlhac-cartoonist-who-encapsulated-charlie-hebdos-confrontational-and-courageous-brand-of-satire-9966368.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|accessdate=11 January 2015|work=The Independent|date=9 January 2015}}{{cbignore}}

Tignous was also active in the French role-playing world, with his illustrations featured in games like Rêve de Dragon and MEGA, and many illustrations for the magazine Casus Belli. His work features in a 2015 cooperative card game, Les Poilus (The Grizzled), about the tragic and solitary experience of French soldiers in the trenches of the Great War.{{Cite web|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/171668/grizzled|title=The Grizzled}}

Tignous was a member of Cartoonists for Peace as well as the Press Judiciare, an association of French journalists covering the legal system. He was one of the founding sponsors of Clowns sans Frontieres, the French affiliate of Clowns without Borders International, and participated in CSF projects in the Philippines, Burma, and Nord Pas de Calais.{{cite news|title=Contexte|url=http://www.clowns-sans-frontieres-france.org/2012/06/migrants-nord-pas-de-calais-2/|accessdate=4 February 2015|work=Clowns Sans Frontieres|date=June 2012|archive-date=19 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119034323/http://www.clowns-sans-frontieres-france.org/2012/06/migrants-nord-pas-de-calais-2/|url-status=dead}} In 2010, he published a book featuring cartoons of his signature pandas to benefit the French chapter of the World Wildlife Foundation, which called him "a friend of the pandas and the earth."[http://www.wwf.fr/?3960/Le-WWF-France-pleure-Tignous-un-ami-des-Pandas Le WWF France pleure Tignous, un ami des Pandas] WWF. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.

Tignous was the father of four children. He was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery on 15 January 2015. The Franco-Lebanese jazz trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf played during a ceremony in Tignous's honour held in the great hall of the municipality of Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis.