Serge Ferrand
(Canada)
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À La Bonne Franquette (La Presse, 1977)
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Serge Ferrand grew up with European comics like 'Astérix', 'Michel Tanguy', 'Spirou', 'Gaston' and 'Les Dingodossiers'. He studied journalism for a while, but eventually went to work as a teacher and a radio amateur in Montréal. He drew his first pages and proposed them to the editors of Tintin, during a trip to Brussels. They were accepted, and Ferrand published several stories with the 'Arsène Lupin' parody 'Larsène Rupin' and the series 'Cousin Barney' in Tintin in the late 1970s.
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He learned the finer points of the profession from Paape, Tibet, Hermann and Franquin, but the distance between Montréal and Brussels eventually became too long for a steady collaboration. He did a newspaper strip called 'Zanzan' for the Quebecois newspaper La Presse, and then went to work as a journalist afterwards. In the 1990s, he returned to comics with the series 'Les Vaginocrates'.
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