Marcel Gotlieb est mort
December 4, 2016 8:18 AM   Subscribe

Marcel Gotlieb est mort à 82 ans. Known as Gotlib, founder of the comic magazine Fluide Glacial, creator of Gai-Luron, SuperDupont and many more. Author of the Rubrique-à-brac serie, considered a masterpiece of french humor.
posted by CitoyenK (18 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 


Oh, man, this is just right up my forever-French-learning, comedy-fan street. RIP Marcel Gotlieb, and thanks for posting this. I found you can indeed order it from various obscure US places through Amazon (of course, through dumb old Amazon). Rubrique-A-Brac, Tome 1.
posted by lauranesson at 8:54 AM on December 4, 2016


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posted by motty at 9:21 AM on December 4, 2016


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posted by Malingering Hector at 10:12 AM on December 4, 2016


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posted by the sobsister at 10:40 AM on December 4, 2016


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posted by Pendragon at 10:55 AM on December 4, 2016


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posted by Sphinx at 11:56 AM on December 4, 2016


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Used to love me some Fluide Glaciale.
posted by Mocata at 1:08 PM on December 4, 2016


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posted by fraula at 1:18 PM on December 4, 2016


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Great loss.
posted by interrobang at 1:40 PM on December 4, 2016


Ah c'est triste !

The best way I can explain Gotlib to Americans is to say that he was a one-man French Mad Magazine. The same raucous humor, a mixture of sophisticated irony and slapstick, the same tendency to cram panels to bursting. You can watch his style developing in Gai-Luron, which starts out as a kids' strip and turns into a very playful satirical game. Rubrique-à-brac had no fixed theme, but a double handful of running gags. SuperDupont is an example of why the French could never really do superhero comics: they found the entire concept too risible. So of course it's a parody: the French superhero wears a striped shirt, slippers, and beret, and fights a shadowy organization called Anti-France, whose members speak a mishmash of all non-French languages.

I don't think I've ever seen a translation. A pity, because I don't think we see much of the savage French sense of humor.
posted by zompist at 1:47 PM on December 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


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Used to love me some Fluide Glaciale.

Yup, me too.
posted by jontyjago at 1:56 PM on December 4, 2016


Fuck 2016.

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posted by orangutan at 9:18 PM on December 4, 2016


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Gotlib was to french humor what the Python were to british humor.
posted by SageLeVoid at 12:22 AM on December 5, 2016


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I am so glad that I grew up with this perfect nonsense.
posted by ouke at 8:34 AM on December 5, 2016


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He was magnificent.
posted by bouvin at 9:45 AM on December 5, 2016


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posted by Loudmax at 5:17 AM on December 6, 2016


Merde.
He was by far my fave BDiste since I discovered him in high school. The range of topics and tones of his work makes it uncommonly rewarding to revisit. He hooks you with straightforward funnies like the animal series and classic Newton gags, then you go back over the ones you skipped and you find a French cinema/Marvel mashup, or he smacks you in the face with a catcall revenge fantasy, or you end up down a wikihole trying to understand what the hell is going on here.
C'est plus que suffisant pour satisfaire un fan toute une vie, merci Gotlib.
posted by Freyja at 5:31 AM on December 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


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