First student and then professor at the École des arts appliqués, Georges Pichard made his advertising debut on behalf of the Drager agency. He published his first comic strips in La Semaine de Suzette, in 1956. In the early sixties he met Jacques Lob who was several times his screenwriter, making parodies of superheroes such as Ténébrax and Submerman.

After a few years Pichard abandoned the comic book genre, devoting himself to explicitly erotic themes; always making with Lob Blanche Épiphanie. This character who leaves the moral framework of the time, provokes numerous public reactions and at some point is even emulated by Jane Fonda when she goes to Vietnam.

This period sees Pichard develop his personal style givin...