COMIC ARTIST

Cabu

1938 - 2015

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Jean Maurice Jules Cabut (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis ʒyl kaby]; 13 January 1938 – 7 January 2015), known by the pen-name Cabu (pronounced [kaby]), was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist. He was murdered in the January 2015 shooting attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cabu has received more than 300,502 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Cabu is the 32nd most popular comic artist (up from 34th in 2019), the 1,705th most popular biography from France (up from 1,759th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Cabu ranks 32 out of 226. Before him are Alan Moore, Go Nagai, Quino, Steve Ditko, Don Rosa, and André Franquin. After him are Yoshihiro Togashi, Hirohiko Araki, Winsor McCay, Katsuhiro Otomo, Shigeru Mizuki, and Will Eisner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Cabu ranks 103. Before him are Georg Baselitz, Fela Kuti, Josef Koudelka, Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Robert Smithson, and Larry Scott. After him are Karin Dor, Tom Regan, Seishiro Shimatani, Milan Galić, Radivoj Korać, and Adolf Scherer. Among people deceased in 2015, Cabu ranks 80. Before him are Licio Gelli, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Rod Taylor, Árpád Göncz, Patrick Macnee, and Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria. After him are Cynthia Lennon, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Jin Youzhi, Ruth Rendell, Akiyuki Nosaka, and Shigeru Mizuki.

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In France

Among people born in France, Cabu ranks 1,705 out of 6,770. Before him are Fulk IV, Count of Anjou (1043), Henri Cornet (1884), Paul Veyne (1930), Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon (1491), Patrick Tambay (1949), and Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (1641). After him are Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675), Alice Prin (1901), Tarrare (1772), Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers (1609), Abbo of Fleury (945), and Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In France

Among comic artists born in France, Cabu ranks 5. Before him are René Goscinny (1926), Albert Uderzo (1927), Jean Giraud (1938), and Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932). After him are Philippe Honoré (1941), Émile Cohl (1857), Jacques Tardi (1946), Tignous (1957), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Jacques Martin (1921), and Gotlib (1934).

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