Claude Auclair - Artist Info

About Claude Auclair

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    Claude Auclair (1943-1990)

    He took courses in Fine Arts in Nantes. Afterwards, he became a theater decorator. He got involved with comics through Robert Roquemartine, the founder of Futuropolis. In the late 1960s, he began illustrating science-fiction periodicals. Encouraged by his fellow artists Moebius and Philippe Druillet, he joined Pilote magazine in 1970. There, he drew several short stories, and later the Jason Muller series. When editor-in-chief René Goscinny cancelled the series, Auclair moved over to Record, where he began drawing the Catriona McKilligan series (text by Jacques Acar).

    Auclair began his most famous series, Simon du Fleuve, in Tintin

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