Famous comic book author, Jean-Louis Pesch has been reported dead by his organization, Dargaud Edition. According to them he died on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at 94. No cause of death was revealed.
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When he was 14, he passed the entrance exam to the School of Applied Arts in Paris, however, due to the war, he had to return home and work on the farm. He joined the Navy in 1954 and worked there for three years.
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Pesch returned from the Navy and started working in a cartoon studio. In 1950, he founded an advertising studio where he created a good number of characters that he animated in comics on blotters, calendars, house-organs, stands, and more.
He grew up with cartoonist parents who made him develop love for the art when he was just 4 years old. His parents bought the 1934 Le Journal de Mickey and other other albums for him when he was still very young.
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