COMIC ARTIST

Claire Bretécher

1940 - 2020

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Claire Bretécher (French: [bʁəteʃe]; 17 April 1940 – 10 February 2020) was a French cartoonist, known particularly for her portrayals of women and gender issues. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claire Bretécher has received more than 78,999 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Claire Bretécher is the 110th most popular comic artist (down from 104th in 2019), the 4,285th most popular biography from France (down from 3,877th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Comic Artist.

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  • 48.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Claire Bretécher ranks 110 out of 226Before her are Greg, Jacques Martin, Hiro Mashima, E. O. Plauen, Yōichi Takahashi, and Gotlib. After her are David Lloyd, Nobuhiro Watsuki, Jean Tabary, Hal Foster, John Romita Sr., and Keiko Takemiya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Claire Bretécher ranks 351Before her are Jean-Claude Andruet, Ole Lund Kirkegaard, Peter Gethin, Jacques Higelin, Győző Kulcsár, and Eugen Drewermann. After her are Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Gary Gilmore, Vicente Miera, Michael Sarrazin, Adam Przeworski, and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. Among people deceased in 2020, Claire Bretécher ranks 382Before her are Vatroslav Mimica, John Ericson, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Germà Colón, Belaid Abdessalam, and Peter Bonetti. After her are Paul H. O'Neill, Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Giancarlo Bergamini, Stuart Gordon, Sadiq al-Mahdi, and Roger Vonlanthen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claire Bretécher ranks 4,285 out of 6,770Before her are Clémence Royer (1830), Gilbert Bougnol (1866), Jean Barraqué (1928), Pierre Brossolette (1903), Joseph Roumanille (1818), and Charles Rigoulot (1903). After her are Jean-François Séguier (1703), Jean Tiberi (1935), Daniel Morelon (1944), Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852), Hans van den Broek (1936), and Olivier Roy (1949).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In France

Among comic artists born in France, Claire Bretécher ranks 13Before her are Émile Cohl (1857), Jacques Tardi (1946), Tignous (1957), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Jacques Martin (1921), and Gotlib (1934). After her are François Bourgeon (1945), Sylvain Chomet (1963), David Beauchard (1959), and Joann Sfar (1971).