Jacques-Armand Cardon
Jacques-Armand Cardon | |
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Cardon in 2023 | |
| Born | 30 November 1936 Le Havre, France |
| Died | 5 April 2026 (aged 89) Angers, France |
| Occupations | Cartoonist Illustrator |
Jacques-Armand Cardon (French: [ʒˈak-aʁmˈɑ̃ kaʁdˈɔ̃]; 30 November 1936 – 5 April 2026) was a French cartoonist and illustrator.[1]
Life and career
Born in Le Havre on 30 November 1936,[2] Cardon's father was imprisoned in 1940 and killed in captivity in 1942.[3] He spent his youth in Brittany and survived there through World War II.[4] He witnessed the reconstruction of Lorient and lived in the barracks of the Château de Soye in Morbihan.[5][6] He completed his military service in Toulon and studied lithography.[7] In 1961, he published his first drawings in Bizarre by Jean-Jacques Pauvert.[8] He then joined the staff of the magazine Hara-Kiri alongside the likes of Cabu, Georges Wolinski, Fred, Roland Topor, and Professeur Choron.[9] In the 1981, he illustrated a seven-minute short film titled L'Empreinte, directed by Henri Lacam.[10] The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.[11] In 2002, he published a monography of his works titled Cardon, dessins.[12] In 2010, a retrospective album titled Cardon, vu de dos - trente ans de dessins plus que politiques was published in his honor by L'Échappée, which received praise from Le Point.[13] In 2020, he released his final work, titled Cathédrale Cardon.[3] In 2022, his works created in L'Humanité Dimanche and Politique Hebdo between 1970 and 1976 were republished;[14] this collective work was nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance in 2023.[15]
Cardon died in Angers on 5 April 2026, at the age of 89.[16]
Publications
- La Véridique Histoire des compteurs à air (1972)
- Ligne de fuite (1973)
- L'Apocalypse est pour demain ou les aventures de Robin Cruso (1977)
- Comment crier et quoi (1986)
- Les Sursitaires (1995)
- Cardon, dessins (2002)
- Cardon vu de dos : trente ans de dessins plus que politiques (2010)
- Cathédrale Cardon (2020)
- Ras le bol (2022)
References
- ^ "Le dessinateur Jacques-Armand Cardon, l'un des noms emblématiques du « Canard enchaîné », est mort". Le Monde (in French). 7 April 2026. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ "Jacques Armand Cardon". Archives municipales du Havre (in French).
- ^ a b Servin, Lucie (24 November 2020). "Cardon : « L'image est plus forte que le discours qui l'enferme »". L'Humanité (in French). Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ "Cardon : "Il faut essayer de compenser l'absence et l'intranquillité permanente par un surcroît d'imaginaire"". Radio France (in French). 18 October 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ "Mémoire de Soye. Le point sur les projets". Le Télégramme (in French). 28 January 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ "Le dessinateur et caricaturiste Jacques-Armand Cardon participera à un débat à Longeville-sur-Mer". Ouest-France (in French). 14 June 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ Beauvallet, Laurent (6 February 2011). "Cardon canarde toujours dans le dos". Ouest-France (in French).
- ^ Sammari, Laïd (22 October 2010). "Un rire "cardonique". L'Est Républicain (in French).
- ^ Beauvallet, Laurent (9 January 2015). ""Une dégueulasserie absolue, commise par.."". Ouest-France (in French).
- ^ "L'empreinte". Desseins animés (in French).
- ^ "Cardon". Éditions du Héron (in French). Archived from the original on 6 May 2021.
- ^ "Beaux livres : Cardon". L'Humanité (in French). 14 December 2002.
- ^ Recasens, Olivia; Labbé, Christophe (4 January 2011). "Cardon fait mouche avec ses dessins politiques". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ Rosset, Christian (16 November 2022). "Choses lues, choses vues (28): Michel Butel, Delfeil de Ton, Cardon, François Matton & Lise Charles". Diacritik (in French). Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ Clément, Thomas (3 January 2023). "Angoulême 2023 : La sélection Patrimoine". BD Info (in French). Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ "Cardon, le dessinateur philosophe du « Canard Enchaîné », est mort". 20 minutes (in French). 7 April 2026. Retrieved 10 April 2026.