Firmin Aristophane Boulon (published as Aristophane, the French name of Aristophanes) was a Guadeloupe-born cartoonist. A graduate of the French schools École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and European School of Visual Arts, he began work "preoccupied with evil and frailty as viewed through the lives of demons and mythological creatures."[1]
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Born | Firmin Aristophane Boulon (1967-01-08)January 8, 1967 Baillif, Guadeloupe |
Died | May 11, 2004(2004-05-11) (aged 37) Dissay, France |
Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Artist |
Notable works | Les sœurs Zabîme |
His 1996 novel, Les sœurs Zabîme, is about children in Guadeloupe and considered a "small masterpiece."[1] It was his final completed work.
In school he had been told, "Everything was already explored in painting, everything was already done. The future lies in comics."[2]
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