André Jobin

André Jobin

Birth : 1927-10-25, Delémont, Jura, Switzerland

History

Job (born André Jobin on 25 October 1927) is a Swiss francophone comics creator. He is probably best known for his western children's comics series Yakari, of which he has written the scripts from 1973 until 2016. André Jobin was born in Delémont, Switzerland. He became a journalist and founded Le Crapaud à lunettes in 1964, a magazine for children. In 1967, he met Derib and hired him. In 1967 they published The Adventures of the Owl Pythagore together. In 1969, he created the series Yakari, drawn by Derib. In 1991, he was awarded with the Masters of Honor at the Sierre Comics Festival for his career. In 2016 wrote his last story about Yakari. Joris Chamblain will now continue with Derib. Source: Article "Job (comics)" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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André Jobin

Movies

Yakari: A Spectacular Journey
Yakari: A Spectacular Journey
Characters
With his tribe's move to follow the migrating bison, Yakari, the little Sioux boy, sets out on his own to follow the trail of Little Thunder, a wild mustang said to be untameable. Travelling far from home and deep into the territory of the terrible cougarskins, Yakari and Little Thunder undertake a great adventure and find their way back home.
Yakari 2
Yakari 2
Characters
While his friend Buffalo-Seed is in a deep coma and Rainbow reveals her shaman skills by keeping him alive, Yakari gallops off with Little-Thunder in search of the only living being capable of bringing him back to life: Buffalo-Seed's totem, the imposing, fantastic and dangerous Thathanka!