COMIC ARTIST

Cabu

1938 - 2015

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Jean Maurice Jules Cabut (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis ʒyl kaby]; 13 January 1938 – 7 January 2015), known by the pen-name Cabu (pronounced [kaby]), was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist. He was murdered in the January 2015 shooting attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices. Cabu was a staff cartoonist and shareholder at Charlie Hebdo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cabu is the 37th most popular comic artist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 1,982nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,705th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Cabu ranks 37 out of 226. Before him are Alan Moore, Eiichiro Oda, Naoki Urasawa, Hirohiko Araki, John Romita Sr., and Don Rosa. After him are Katsuhiro Otomo, Will Eisner, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Shotaro Ishinomori, Enki Bilal, and Philippe Honoré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Cabu ranks 134. Before him are Eddie Cochran, Ted Turner, Nayef Hawatmeh, Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Marien Ngouabi, and Sergei Novikov. After him are John Connelly, Paul Andreu, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Robert Smithson, Gerry Byrne, and Karin Dor. Among people deceased in 2015, Cabu ranks 97. Before him are Dinkha IV, Rose Francine Rogombé, André Brink, Patrick Macnee, Akiyuki Nosaka, and Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria. After him are Ornette Coleman, Satoru Iwata, Gerry Byrne, Yaşar Kemal, Jaakko Hintikka, and Jean-Pierre Beltoise.

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In France

Among people born in France, Cabu ranks 1,982 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Fredegund (545), Michel Debré (1912), Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (1619), and Antoine de Montchrestien (1575). After him are John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Blandina (101), Danielle Mitterrand (1924), Jules Perrot (1810), Liane de Pougy (1869), and John II, Duke of Lorraine (1425).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In France

Among comic artists born in France, Cabu ranks 5. Before him are René Goscinny (1926), Albert Uderzo (1927), Jean Giraud (1938), and Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932). After him are Philippe Honoré (1941), Émile Cohl (1857), Jacques Tardi (1946), Tignous (1957), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Jacques Martin (1921), and Claire Bretécher (1940).

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