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F'Murr

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F'Murr
F'Murr in 2009
BornRichard Peyzaret
(1946-03-31)March 31, 1946
Paris, France
DiedApril 10, 2018(2018-04-10) (aged 72)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Area(s)Artist, writer
PseudonymF'Murr
Notable works
Le GĂ©nie des alpages
Jehanne d'Arc
Tartine de clous
Le char de l'état dérape sur le sentier de la guerre
AwardsFull list

Richard Peyzaret (March 31, 1946 – April 10, 2018),[1] better known by his pen name F'Murrr or F'Murr, was a French cartoonist and comic book writer. He was most famous for the long-running series Le GĂ©nie des alpages (The Genius of the Mountain Pastures).

Biography

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Cartoon by F'Murr
Cartoon by F'Murr

Peyzaret grew up as an admirer of Hergé and André Franquin, but studied Applied Arts for six years in Paris before meeting the BD industry, by arriving at the workshop of Raymond Poïvet.[2] This led to an introduction to René Goscinny and starting work for Pilote magazine in 1971, making his debut with the gags series Contes à Rebours. The unused boards of this strip later formed the basis of his first album, Au loup!.[2]

While at Pilote, he began his most famous work, Le GĂ©nie des alpages in 1973. This series features an old and a young shepherd, their talking shepherd's dog, a flock of mad sheep and other abnormal characters behaving unpredictably in alpine surroundings. When Pilote ceased publication, the series were issued directly into albums.

He also held a long associations with several of the other francophone serial magazines of this period. NaphtalÚne was also published in Pilote, Porfirio et Gabriel in Le Canard Sauvage and Circus, Jehanne d'Arc in Métal Hurlant, Robin des Boßtes in Fluide Glacial, and Les Mirrois de Marguerite and Ala et Lolli were created for the Spirou magazine supplement Le Trombone Illustré.[3]

In 1985 he began the strip Histoires DĂ©placĂ©es in (À SUIVRE) satirizing the ongoing Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. These were collected in the 1987 album named Le char de l'Ă©tat dĂ©rape sur le sentier de la guerre (The State's Tank Slips on the Path of War).[3]

A few instances of F'Murrr translated into the English language were printed in Heavy Metal and National Lampoon magazine in the late 70s.[4]

Eight albums of Le Genie des Alpages were published in Norway in the 1980s by A/S Hjemmet-Serieforlaget under the name of Ullkorn, which is a pun on "gullkorn", a Norwegian word for aphorism - i.e. corn being found as gold (gull), or in this instance, wool (ull).

The first four albums of "Le Genie des Alpages" were published in Denmark in the 1980s by Serieforlaget under the name of "FÄrfÊngelighedens marked", which is a pun on "fÄr", the name for sheep, and "ForfÊngelighedens marked" (Vanity Fair).

Awards

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Bibliography

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  • Au loup! (1974, Minoustchine/Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-04263-7)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages, (1976, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-00881-1)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #2, Comme des bĂȘtes, (1976, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-00892-7)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #3, Barre-toi de mon herbe, (1977, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-01155-3)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #4, Un grand silence frisĂ©, (1978, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-01238-X)
  • Vingt dieux c'est le synode (1979, Artefact, ISBN 2-86697-004-7)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #5, Les Intondables, (1980, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-01596-6)
  • Jehanne d'Arc #1, Jehanne au pied du mur, (1980, Casterman, ISBN 2-203-33404-5)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #6, Hi-Yo c'est l'Ă©cho, (1981, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-01922-8)
  • Porfirio et Gabriel (1980, Futuropolis, ISBN 2-7376-5374-6)
  • Tartine de clous (1981, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-02343-8)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #7, Tonnerre... et mille sabots!, (1983, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-02490-6)
  • Jehanne d'Arc #2, Tim GalĂšre, (1985, Casterman, ISBN 2-203-33424-X)
  • Robin des boites (1985, Futuropolis, ISBN 2-7376-5450-5)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #8, Dans les nuages, (1987, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-02764-6)
  • Le char de l'Ă©tat dĂ©rape sur le sentier de la guerre (1987, Casterman, ISBN 2-203-33434-7)
  • Spirella mangeuse d'Ă©cureuils (1988, Khani Ă©ditions, ISBN 2-907159-01-1)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #9, AprĂšs nous... le dĂ©luge?, (1989, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-03618-1)
  • Le pauvre chevalier (1990, Casterman, ISBN 2-203-34804-6)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #10, Monter, descendre, ça glisse pareil, (1992, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-03919-9)
  • Les aveugles (1992, Casterman, ISBN 2-203-34807-0)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #11, Sabotage et paturage, (1995, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-04253-X)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #12, Bouge tranquille!, (1998, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-04591-1)
  • Éloge de la pentitude (2002, GlĂ©nat, ISBN 2-7234-3725-6)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #13, Cheptel Maudit, (2004, Dargaud, ISBN 2-205-04887-2)
  • Le GĂ©nie des alpages #14, ... Courent dans la montagne, (2007, Dargaud, ISBN)

Footnotes

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  1. ↑ "Mort du dessinateur F'murr, l'auteur de la BD « GĂ©nie des alpages". Le Monde.fr. 11 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 BDparadisio.com. "F'murrr" (in French). Archived from the original on 2007-07-05.
  3. 1 2 Lambiek Comiclopedia. "F'murr".
  4. ↑ Michigan State University Libraries. "index F". Archived from the original on 2007-02-20.
  5. ↑ ToutEnBD. "Le palmarùs 1978". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28.
  6. ↑ ToutEnBD. "Le palmarùs 1991". Archived from the original on 2007-06-25.

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