Jacques-Armand Cardon

Jacques-Armand Cardon
Cardon in 2023
Born(1936-11-30)30 November 1936
Le Havre, France
Died5 April 2026(2026-04-05) (aged 89)
Angers, France
OccupationsCartoonist
Illustrator

Jacques-Armand Cardon (French: [ʒˈak-aʁmˈɑ̃ kaʁdˈɔ̃]; 30 November 1936 – 5 April 2026) was a French cartoonist and illustrator.

Life and career

Born in Le Havre on 30 November 1936, Cardon's father was imprisoned in 1940 and killed in captivity in 1942. He spent his youth in Brittany and survived there through World War II. He witnessed the reconstruction of Lorient and lived in the barracks of the Château de Soye [fr] in Morbihan. He completed his military service in Toulon and studied lithography. In 1961, he published his first drawings in Bizarre by Jean-Jacques Pauvert. He then joined the staff of the magazine Hara-Kiri alongside the likes of Cabu, Georges Wolinski, Fred, Roland Topor, and Professeur Choron. In the 1981, he illustrated a seven-minute short film titled L'Empreinte, directed by Henri Lacam [fr]. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2002, he published a monography of his works titled Cardon, dessins. In 2010, a retrospective album titled Cardon, vu de dos - trente ans de dessins plus que politiques was published in his honor by L'Échappée [fr], which received praise from Le Point. In 2020, he released his final work, titled Cathédrale Cardon. In 2022, his works created in L'Humanité Dimanche and Politique Hebdo [fr] between 1970 and 1976 were republished; this collective work was nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance in 2023.

Cardon died in Angers on 5 April 2026, at the age of 89.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Le dessinateur Jacques-Armand Cardon, l'un des noms emblématiques du « Canard enchaîné », est mort". Le Monde (in French). 7 April 2026. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  2. ↑ "Jacques Armand Cardon". Archives municipales du Havre (in French).
  3. 1 2 Servin, Lucie (24 November 2020). "Cardon : « L'image est plus forte que le discours qui l'enferme »". L'Humanité (in French). Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  4. ↑ "Cardon : "Il faut essayer de compenser l'absence et l'intranquillité permanente par un surcroît d'imaginaire"". Radio France (in French). 18 October 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  5. ↑ "Mémoire de Soye. Le point sur les projets". Le Télégramme (in French). 28 January 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  6. ↑ "Le dessinateur et caricaturiste Jacques-Armand Cardon participera à un débat à Longeville-sur-Mer". Ouest-France (in French). 14 June 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  7. ↑ Beauvallet, Laurent (6 February 2011). "Cardon canarde toujours dans le dos". Ouest-France (in French).
  8. ↑ Sammari, Laïd (22 October 2010). "Un rire "cardonique". L'Est Républicain (in French).
  9. ↑ Beauvallet, Laurent (9 January 2015). ""Une dégueulasserie absolue, commise par.."". Ouest-France (in French).
  10. ↑ "L'empreinte". Desseins animés (in French).
  11. ↑ "Cardon". Éditions du Héron (in French). Archived from the original on 6 May 2021.
  12. ↑ "Beaux livres : Cardon". L'Humanité (in French). 14 December 2002.
  13. ↑ Recasens, Olivia; Labbé, Christophe (4 January 2011). "Cardon fait mouche avec ses dessins politiques". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  14. ↑ Rosset, Christian (16 November 2022). "Choses lues, choses vues (28): Michel Butel, Delfeil de Ton, Cardon, François Matton & Lise Charles". Diacritik (in French). Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  15. ↑ Clément, Thomas (3 January 2023). "Angoulême 2023 : La sélection Patrimoine". BD Info (in French). Retrieved 10 April 2026.
  16. ↑ "Cardon, le dessinateur philosophe du « Canard Enchaîné », est mort". 20 minutes (in French). 7 April 2026. Retrieved 10 April 2026.