Nationality French Movies Vive les femmes! Role Cartoonist | Name Georges Wolinski Books Paulette, Cactus Joe | |
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Born Georges David Wolinski28 June 1934Tunis, French Tunisia ( 1934-06-28 ) Notable works PauletteC’est la faute a la societe Awards Grand Prix de la ville d'Angouleme, 2005Legion of Honour, 2005 Children Elsa Wolinski, Frederica Wolinski, Natacha Wolinski Similar People Cabu, Claude Confortes, Fabien Onteniente, Enzo Onteniente | ||
Relatives and friends pay their respects to charlie hebdo cartoonist georges wolinski
Georges Wolinski ([vɔlɛ̃ski]; 28 June 1934 – 7 January 2015) was a French cartoonist and comics writer. He was killed on 7 January 2015 in a terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo along with other staff.
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- Relatives and friends pay their respects to charlie hebdo cartoonist georges wolinski
- Cartoonist georges wolinski laid to rest
- Early life
- Career
- Death
- Other works
- References
Cartoonist georges wolinski laid to rest
Early life
Georges David Wolinski was born on 28 June 1934 in Tunis, French Tunisia to Jewish parents, Lola Bembaron and Siegfried Wolinski. His father, who was from Poland, was murdered in 1936 when Wolinski was two years old. His mother was a Tunisian of Italian extraction. He moved to metropolitan France in 1945 shortly after World War II. He started studying architecture in Paris and following his graduation he began cartooning.
Career
Wolinski began cartooning for Rustica in 1958, and started drawing political cartoons in 1960. Three years later, in 1961, he started contributing political and erotic cartoons and comic strips to the satirical monthly Hara-Kiri.
During the student revolts of May 1968, Wolinski co-founded the satirical magazine L'Enragé with Jean-Jacques Pauvert and Siné. He served as the editor-in-chief of Hara-Kiri from 1961 to 1970. In the early 1970s, Wolinski collaborated with the comics artist Georges Pichard to create Paulette which appeared in Charlie Mensuel and provoked reactions in France during its publication. Wolinski's work appeared in the daily newspaper Libération, the weekly Paris-Match, L'Écho des savanes and Charlie Hebdo.
In 2005, he was the recipient of the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême at the Angoulême Festival. The same year he was also awarded the Legion of Honour.
Death
Along with seven of his colleagues, two police officers, and two others, Wolinski was killed on January 7, 2015 in the Charlie Hebdo shooting when armed jihadist terrorists stormed the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices in Paris.
The asteroid 293499 Wolinski was named in his memory on February 22, 2016 by its discoverer Jean-Claude Merlin.
Other works
A text on the Tunisian Revolution, « Les Tunisiens sont « sages » », published in the book Dégage ! une révolution, Phébus, 2012, pp. 164–165, ISBN 978-2-7529-0671-7.