'Rona'.
Malo Louarn was born in 1949 in the area around Paris, but lived and worked in Brittany (Bretagne) for most of his career. His father, Alan Louarn, was a well-known activist who advocated the Breton language and culture. Louarn's mother was the sister of another Breton activist, writer Youenn Olier. Louarn's siblings would later also gain fame in France. His sister and brother, Lena and Tangi Louarn, also became active in the Breton linguistic movement.
Louarn received a literary education, and got his degree in the English language. After a contest by Lombard, he made his professional debut with the series 'Goulven et Folklo' in Tintin in 1972. From 1979 on, he made several short stories of 'Gwennyn' for Spirou. Afterwards followed by a saga about corruption in politics and sports: 'Le Candidat', 'La Vedette' and 'Le Canonnier de Volkagrad'. Another creation during this period was 'Les Bonnes Gens'. In 1981-82, Louarn self-published several of his stories in albums.
'Gwennyn'.
In 1984, Louarn started the series 'Rona' in the newspaper Ouest-France. Five stories of this journalist were collected in books between 1985 and 1989. For the German publisher Boiselle-Löhmannin Ludwigshaffen, he created 'Kommissar Gußauge', whose adventures appeared in France under the title 'Commissaire Keuye'. As a scriptwriter, he wrote for artists like Gégé ('Attention Mââr-Rhan' in Frilouz, 1982) and Dominique Mainguy ('Les Routiers' for publisher Lefrancq, 1995). He was an illustrator and cartoonist for several agricultural magazines and regional organizations in the Breton area, and was mainly active as a farmer during the final years of his life.
He was one of several artists to make a graphic contribution to 'Baston Labaffe no. 5: La Ballade des Baffes’ (Goupil, 1983), an official collective parody comic of André Franquin’s 'Gaston Lagaffe’. Malo Louarn died in 2023.
Malo Louarn's daughter, Gwennyn, became a well known folk singer in adulthood. The title character of Louarn's comic 'Gwennyn' was named after her.
'Le Candidat' and 'La Vedette'.