Quick Facts
Full Name | Floc'h |
Occupation | Comics Artist |
Date Of Birth | Sep 25, 1953(1953-09-25) |
Age | 72 |
Birthplace | Mayenne |
Country | France |
Birth City | Pays de la Loire |
Horoscope | Capricorn |
Floc'h Biography
Name | Floc'h |
Birthday | Sep 25 |
Birth Year | 1953 |
Place Of Birth | Mayenne |
Home Town | Pays de la Loire |
Birth Country | France |
Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Floc'h is one of the most popular and richest Comics Artist who was born on September 25, 1953 in Mayenne, Pays de la Loire, France. Jean- Claude Floch (born September 25, 1953), known as Floc’h, is a French illustrator, comics artist, and writer. He is known for his use of the style known as ligne claire. His older brother Jean-Louis Floch was also a cartoonist and illustrator.
Floc’h’s fame grew with the publication of Le Dossier Harding in 1980. Floc’h created commercial illustrations, in which he explored new drawing techniques and developed a personal style based on graphic minimalism such as in Le Secret de la Pulmoll verte in 1980. In 1991, he collaborated with Jean-Luc Fromental on a collection of cartoons inspired by the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jamais deux sans trois. They also collaborated on the books Ma Vie, Life, High Life and Var, le Département dont vous êtes le Heros.
Known mainly for cartoons and illustrations, Floc’h has however exhibited his art at various galleries, including the Pixi gallery in Paris and the Nicholas Davies Gallery in New York City. Floc’h has also designed book covers as well as various movie posters, such as for Diabolo menthe and Smoking / No Smoking, and created illustrations for various newspapers and magazines in France, including Lire, Senso, Monsieur, L’Express, Le Nouvel Observateur, Libération, Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Elle. In the United States, he has created covers and illustrations for GQ and The New Yorker. A collection of his advertising artwork appeared in 1985 as Un Homme dans la Foule.
Floc'h Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Comics Artist |
House | Living in own house. |
Floc'h is one of the richest Comics Artist from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Floc'h 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
After a quick study at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (School of Decorative Arts) in Paris, he dedicated himself to illustration and comics. His first published comics pages were for the story Le Conservateur, written by Rodolphe, which appeared in Imagine in 1975. The comics character “Sir Francis Albany” was created for Pilote magazine by Floc’h in 1977, and collaborating with François Rivière, Floc’h published his first collection of comics in 1977, Le Rendez-vous de Sevenoaks. He and Rivière devoted themselves to a narrative and illustration style characterized by Anglophilia; the technique known as mise en abyme; as well as a ligne claire drawing style inspired by the Belgian tradition of comics illustration pioneered by Hergé. Together they would create the series known as Une triologie anglaise (An English Trilogy), which debuted in 1977.
Floc’h and François Rivière collaborated on the novel Les Chroniques d’Oliver Alban, Diary of an Ironist (2006), in which they explored the art and literature from two decades: the 1940s and the 1970s. The two wrote the texts, with Floc’h also creating the art for the book.
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Anssi Ranked on the list of most popular Comics Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Floc'h celebrates birthday on September 25 of every year.