Jacques-Armand Cardon
French cartoonist and illustrator (1936–2026)
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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)