COMIC ARTIST

Gotlib

1934 - 2016

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Marcel Gottlieb (14 July 1934 – 4 December 2016), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gotlib has received more than 97,091 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gotlib is the 109th most popular comic artist (up from 113th in 2019), the 4,279th most popular biography from France (down from 4,123rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 97k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Gotlib ranks 109 out of 226. Before him are Floyd Gottfredson, Greg, Jacques Martin, Hiro Mashima, E. O. Plauen, and Yōichi Takahashi. After him are Claire Bretécher, David Lloyd, Nobuhiro Watsuki, Jean Tabary, Hal Foster, and John Romita Sr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Gotlib ranks 329. Before him are Jayakanthan, Amiri Baraka, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Elżbieta Krzesińska, Oğuz Atay, and May-Louise Flodin. After him are Mahmut Atalay, Canário, Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Martin Bangemann, Richard D. Zanuck, and Mikhail Kozakov. Among people deceased in 2016, Gotlib ranks 307. Before him are Geydar Dzhemal, Eddy Wally, Manfred Krug, Pen Sovan, Anatoli Ilyin, and Elizabeth Roemer. After him are Oliver Shanti, Anne Jackson, Caio Júnior, Charmian Carr, Valery Khalilov, and Néstor Gonçalves.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gotlib ranks 4,279 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Puel (1961), Georges Grignard (1905), Victor Louis (1731), Louis Daquin (1908), Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908), and Jacques Higelin (1940). After him are Clémence Royer (1830), Gilbert Bougnol (1866), Jean Barraqué (1928), Pierre Brossolette (1903), Joseph Roumanille (1818), and Charles Rigoulot (1903).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In France

Among comic artists born in France, Gotlib ranks 12. Before him are Philippe Honoré (1941), Émile Cohl (1857), Jacques Tardi (1946), Tignous (1957), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), and Jacques Martin (1921). After him are Claire Bretécher (1940), François Bourgeon (1945), Sylvain Chomet (1963), David Beauchard (1959), and Joann Sfar (1971).

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