COMIC ARTIST

Tignous

1957 - 2015

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Bernard Jean-Charles Verlhac (21 August 1957 – 7 January 2015), known by the pseudonym Tignous (French pronunciation: [tiɲus], from Occitan: Tinhós), was a French cartoonist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tignous has received more than 127,774 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Tignous is the 71st most popular comic artist (up from 83rd in 2019), the 3,437th most popular biography from France (up from 3,469th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Tignous ranks 71 out of 226. Before him are Joe Shuster, Jacques Tardi, Yoshito Usui, Vicar, Robert Crumb, and Takeshi Obata. After him are Jim Davis, Richard F. Outcault, Kazuki Takahashi, Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and Kazuo Koike.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Tignous ranks 145. Before him are Fabrizio Meoni, Zhao Leji, Mario Salieri, Juan Luis Guerra, Robert Sapolsky, and Isa Gambar. After him are Peter North, Seve Ballesteros, Éder Aleixo de Assis, Tan Dun, Afrika Bambaataa, and Andreï Makine. Among people deceased in 2015, Tignous ranks 175. Before him are Phil Taylor, Nora Brockstedt, Carlo Furno, Mike Porcaro, Bernard Maris, and Fred Anton Maier. After him are Guy Béart, Moira Orfei, Xu Caihou, Judith Malina, Gottfried Diener, and Movita Castaneda.

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In France

Among people born in France, Tignous ranks 3,437 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861), Régine Pernoud (1909), Frédéric Mitterrand (1947), Diana Vreeland (1903), Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766), and Evgeny Paton (1870). After him are Joseph Canteloube (1879), Isaac René Guy le Chapelier (1754), Harry Schell (1921), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Albinus of Angers (470), and Isaac de Benserade (1613).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In France

Among comic artists born in France, Tignous ranks 9. Before him are Jean Giraud (1938), Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932), Cabu (1938), Philippe Honoré (1941), Émile Cohl (1857), and Jacques Tardi (1946). After him are Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Jacques Martin (1921), Gotlib (1934), Claire Bretécher (1940), François Bourgeon (1945), and Sylvain Chomet (1963).

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