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Philippe Fix

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Philippe Fix (born 1 May 1937) is a French illustrator and author of children's books. He studied Decorative Arts in Strasbourg at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs and Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Career

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Born in Grendelbruch, Département du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, Fix created the comic character Chouchou for the magazine Salut les copains in 1963.[1][2][3] The magazine Chouchou was founded specifically for the character in 1964,[4] and in the same year it appeared as a "singer" on two records with the voice of Jean-Jacques Debout at higher speed, including one song "La Mascotte des copains" with Fix's lyrics.[5][6][7] In 1965 it appeared in the magazine Pilote.[8] The book Chouchou au Far West was published in 1966.[9]

Books with Fix' illustrations have appeared in French, German, English, Italian, Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Welsh, Swedish, Norwegian (bokmål), Spanish, Afrikaans, Japanese, Lithuanian, Portuguese, and Hebrew.

Awards

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Bibliography

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Title Year ISBN
Chouchou au Far West 1966
Le Merveilleux Chef-d'oeuvre de Séraphin (English title: The House That Beebo Built) 1967 978-2842301491
Séraphin contre Séraphin (English title: Beebo and the Fizzimen) 1968
Défense de lire Séraphin (English title: Beebo & Ben and the Funny Machine) 1968
The kangaroo with a hole in her pocket 1968
Alexander and the Magic Mouse 1969 9780828150064
L'éléphant rose à point d'or (English title: Arabella, the pink and gold spotted elephant) 1970
The Book of Giant Stories 1972 978-1-56397-976-7
Mumps und Tilli reisen mit der Zeitmaschine (English title: Tim and Tilly and the Time Machine) 1977 3-257-00587-3
Popcorn the Hipporhino 1977 9780224013031
Mumps und Tilli kehren zurück 1978 9783257006070
Le livre de Paris - 2/Chroniques Parisiennes 1990 9782070395590
L'atelier du Père Noël 1992 9782070567737
Weihnachtszeit, schönste Zeit 1996 978-3473333653
Contes populaires du Maroc (English title: Moroccan Myths & Legends) 2003 978-2842301507

References

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  1. ^ "Philippe Fix - 1 Buch". Perlentaucher (in German). 1 October 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Philippe Fix". lambiek.net. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  3. ^ Entry on Philippe Fix at babelio
  4. ^ Article about the magazine Chouchou at bdzoom.com
  5. ^ Chouchou at Bide & Musique
  6. ^ JOHNNY HALLYDAY - L'idole (+Argus), by Daniel Lesueur, CAMION BLANC, 2010, ISBN 9782357791008
  7. ^ Souvenirs, souvenirs-- cent ans de chanson française by Bertrand Bonnieux, Pascal Cordereix, Élizabeth Giuliani, Gallimard, 2004. 9782070314812
  8. ^ "Fix". Bandes dessinées oubliées (in French). Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  9. ^ Fix, P. (1966). Chouchou au far-west. Grands albums Hachette (in French). Hachette. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  10. ^ (in Italian) Awardees Bologna Children's Book Fair 1970. Archived 2017-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ (in Italian) Awardees Bologna Children's Book Fair 1972. Archived 2017-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "ALO docView - IBBY Honour List (1990) (1990)". Austrian Literature Online. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

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