Claire Bretécher

Claire Bretécher 17 April 1940 10 February 2020 was a French cartoonist known particularly for her portrayals of women and gender issues Her creations included Les Frustrés and the unimpressed teenager Agrippine Bretécher was born in Nantes and got her first break as an illustrator when she was asked to provide the artwork for Le facteur Rhésus by René Goscinny for LOs à moelle in 1963 She went on to work for several popular magazines and in 1969 invented the character Cellulite In 1972 she joined Gotlib and Mandryka in founding the FrancoBelgian comics magazine LÉcho des savanes Throughout the 1970s and 1980s she published successful collections such as The Destiny of Monique 1982 In 2001 Bretéchers series Agrippine was adapted into a 26episode TV series by Canal Claire Bretécher was the widow of French constitutionalist Guy Carcassonne with whom she had a son She died in Paris on 10 February 2020 after suffering for some years from Alzheimers disease Source Article Claire Bretécher from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30