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Born 1942 Nice, France. Known for: Comic illustration, painting, writing.
Edmond Baudoin grew up in an isolated village in post-war France. Most of his youth he spent drawing with his older brother Piero. When Piero went to art school, Baudoin's parents could not afford to... Read full biography
Edmond Baudoin grew up in an isolated village in post-war France. Most of his youth he spent drawing with his older brother Piero. When Piero went to art school, Baudoin's parents could not afford to pay for any further studies of their second son, and Baudoin took to office life. All this was... Read full biography
Edmond Baudoin grew up in an isolated village in post-war France. Most of his youth he spent drawing with his older brother Piero. When Piero went to art school, Baudoin's parents could not afford to pay for any further studies of their second son, and Baudoin took to office life. All this was recounted vividly in Baudoin's moving comics biography Piero. Then in the late sixties, the times started a-changing and Baudoin decided to follow his dreams. Similar stories about breaking out of... Read full biography
Edmond Baudoin grew up in an isolated village in post-war France. Most of his youth he spent drawing with his older brother Piero. When Piero went to art school, Baudoin's parents could not afford to pay for any further studies of their second son, and Baudoin took to office life. All this was recounted vividly in Baudoin's moving comics biography Piero. Then in the late sixties, the times started a-changing and Baudoin decided to follow his dreams. Similar stories about breaking out of stifling social conventions abound in Baudoin's works, notably in Le Premier Voyage and Le Clezio's literary classic Le Proces Verbal (affectionately illustrated by Baudoin for Gallimard). Baudoin quit his accounting job and started working as a comics... Read full biography
Edmond Baudoin grew up in an isolated village in post-war France. Most of his youth he spent drawing with his older brother Piero. When Piero went to art school, Baudoin's parents could not afford to pay for any further studies of their second son, and Baudoin took to office life. All this was recounted vividly in Baudoin's moving comics biography Piero. Then in the late sixties, the times started a-changing and Baudoin decided to follow his dreams. Similar stories about breaking out of stifling social conventions abound in Baudoin's works, notably in Le Premier Voyage and Le Clezio's literary classic Le Proces Verbal (affectionately illustrated by Baudoin for Gallimard). Baudoin quit his accounting job and started working as a comics "auteur" for various magazines, such as Circus, Pilote and L'Écho des Savanes. By way of these magazines,... Read full biography
