Gotlib

Gotlib

Birth : 1934-07-14, Paris, France

Death : 2016-12-04

History

Marcel Gottlieb, known professionally as Gotlib, was a French comics artist/writer and publisher. Through his own work and the magazines he co-founded, L'Écho des savanes and Fluide Glacial, he was a key figure in the switch in French-language comics from their children's entertainment roots to an adult tone and readership.

Profile

Gotlib

Movies

The Car Keys
Marcel, un pilier de comptoir
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Le nouveau Jean-Claude
le passant refoulé par le taxi
A young man, to whom life has never smiled, decides to change his destiny and begins by conquering the pretty woman with whom he fell in love.
Les Shadoks : mythe ou légende ?
Self
Documentary on the French phenomenon in celebration of a reboot of the series.
Bonjour l'angoisse
Writer
Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Writer
A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...
Touched in the Head
Le disquaire
Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.
And my name is Marcel Gotlib ou Tout à la plume, rien au pinceau
Self
Portrait of comic book artist Marcel Gotlib.
The Laboratory of Fear
A chemist
All the researchers of the IMPS laboratory are males - with one exception : Mademoiselle Clara, Antoine, the cleaner, desperately yearns for. Night after night, when Clara is alone, going on with her experiments, the young man awkwardly manoeuvres with a view to declaring his flame. But the cold scientist remains unconcerned. In his trouble, Antoine regularly drops and breaks phials and other test tubes full of dangerous chemical products. He doesn't care when his skin gets into contact with acid. His heart burns too much for him to be able to feel the burning of his skin. And if he can't GIVE his hand to Clara will he really mind to... LOSE it ?