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COMIC ARTIST

Émile Cohl

1857 - 1938

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Émile Eugène Jean Louis Cohl (French: [kol]; né Courtet; 4 January 1857 – 20 January 1938) was a French caricaturist of the Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Cohl has received more than 246,098 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Cohl is the 52nd most popular comic artist (down from 39th in 2019), the 2,448th most popular biography from France (down from 2,067th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Comic Artist.

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  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Émile Cohl ranks 52 out of 174. Before him are Guillermo Mordillo, Caran d'Ache, Monkey Punch, Charles M. Schulz, Enki Bilal, and Frank Miller. After him are Jerry Siegel, Naoko Takeuchi, Riyoko Ikeda, Joe Shuster, Charles Addams, and E. C. Segar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Émile Cohl ranks 61. Before him are Jacques de Morgan, Juan Vicente Gómez, Herman Bang, Gotō Shinpei, Oskar von Hutier, and A. E. Waite. After him are Hermann Sudermann, Abdurreshid Ibrahim, Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Julius Popper, and Luigi Illica. Among people deceased in 1938, Émile Cohl ranks 86. Before him are Francis Jammes, Edmund Landau, Max Factor, Ante Trumbić, William Henry Pickering, and Octavian Goga. After him are George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, David Riazanov, Jānis K. Bērziņš, Frigyes Karinthy, and Reginald Johnston.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Cohl ranks 2,448 out of 6,011. Before him are Jacques de Vitry (1170), Brigitte Lahaie (1955), Françoise Dolto (1908), Antoine-Louis Barye (1795), Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1637), and Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953). After him are Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), Claude-Michel Schönberg (1944), Emanuel Ungaro (1933), Louise Henriette de Bourbon (1726), Michel Marcel Navratil (1908), and Cécile Aubry (1928).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In France

Among comic artists born in France, Émile Cohl ranks 8. Before him are Albert Uderzo (1927), Jean Giraud (1938), Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), Cabu (1938), and Philippe Honoré (1941). After him are Jacques Tardi (1946), Tignous (1957), Jacques Martin (1921), Claire Bretécher (1940), Gotlib (1934), and Sylvain Chomet (1963).

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