{{Short description|French writer and illustrator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2010}} {{Infobox comics creator | image = Jean-Claude_Forest,_1987_(foto_av_Cristian_Hammarström,_3-21,_detalj).jpg | imagesize = | caption = Image of Jean-Claude Forest | birth_name = Jean-Claude Forest | birth_place = [[Le Perreux-sur-Marne]], France | death_place = Paris, France | art = y | write = y | alias = | notable works = [[Barbarella (character)|Barbarella]] | awards = | website = | birth_date={{Birth date|df=yes|1930|9|11}} | death_date={{Death date and age|df=yes|1998|12|30|1930|9|11}} }} '''Jean-Claude Forest''' (11 September 1930 &ndash; 30 December 1998)<ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Jean-Claude Forest |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/xUBfAXNOoBlJ |website=[[Fichier des personnes décédées|Fichier des décès]] |publisher= |access-date=11 August 2022 |language=fr |date=}}</ref> was a French writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character [[Barbarella (character)|Barbarella]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=FRENCH CARTOONIST JEAN-CLAUDE FOREST DIES |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/01/02/french-cartoonist-jean-claude-forest-dies/ba017a72-1f73-4c24-87d8-f9fa301124ec/ |access-date=2023-01-31 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

==Biography== Jean-Claude Forest was born in [[Le Perreux-sur-Marne]], a Paris suburb<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-jeanclaude-forest-1044306.html|title=Obituary: Jean-Claude Forest &#124; The Independent &#124; The Independent|website=[[Independent.co.uk]] |date=7 July 2022|access-date=26 January 2023|archive-date=20 April 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420214809/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-jeanclaude-forest-1044306.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> and graduated from the Paris School of Design in the early 1950s and immediately began working as an illustrator.

While at the Paris School of Design Forest drew his first [[comic strip]], ''Flèche Noire'' (The Black Arrow).<ref>{{Cite web |date=1999-01-05 |title=Jean-Claude Forest obituary |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jan/05/guardianobituaries |access-date=2023-01-31 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> After creating ''Le Vaisseau Hanté'' (The Ghost Ship) he illustrated several issues of ''Charlot'', a popular French comic book series loosely based on [[Charlie Chaplin]]. Forest eventually became the premier cover artist of French publisher [[Gallimard]]'s leading French science-fiction paperback imprint, ''Le Rayon Fantastique'', also drawing covers for numerous French newspapers and magazines including ''[[France Soir]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1999/01/01/jean-claude-forest_3529607_1819218.html|title=Jean-Claude Forest|newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=1 January 1999|via=Le Monde}}</ref> Together with renowned film director [[Alain Resnais]], Forest was one of the founders of the French Comic-Strip Club in the early 1960s.

Forest became world-famous when he created the sexy sci-fi strip ''[[Barbarella (character)|Barbarella]]'', which was originally published in France in ''V Magazine'' in 1962.<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=1999-01-03 |title=J.-C. Forest, 68, Cartoonist Who Dreamt Up 'Barbarella' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/03/nyregion/j-c-forest-68-cartoonist-who-dreamt-up-barbarella.html |access-date=2023-01-31 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The strip was an immediate bestseller and was soon translated into a dozen languages. In 1967 it was adapted by [[Terry Southern]] and [[Roger Vadim]] and made into a [[Barbarella (film)|major motion picture]], with Forest acting as design consultant.<ref name="auto"/>

Forest created many other cartoons and comic books, also writing scripts for comic strips and for French television.

He was awarded the Grand Prize at the 1984 [[Angoulême]] Comics Festival and in [[Sierre]] ([[Switzerland]]) in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-02-mn-59760-story.html|title=Harmer E. Davis; Pioneered Highway Engineer Training|first=L. A. Times|last=Archives|date=2 January 1999|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

Jean-Claude Forest suffered from severe asthma for many years and died in 1998 at the age of 68.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1999/scene/people-news/jean-claude-forest-1117882812/|title=Jean-Claude Forest|author=Variety Staff|date=5 February 1999}}</ref>

==Awards== * 1968: [[Adamson Awards|Adamson Award]] for Best International Comic Book Artist, [[Sweden]] * 1980: [[Former prizes of the Angoulême International Comics Festival|Best Author]] at the [[Angoulême International Comics Festival]], France

== Bibliography == *[[Barbarella (comic book)|Barbarella]] (originally serialized in ''V Magazine'', 1962; [[Eric Losfeld]], 1964; translated by Grove Press) *Les Colères du Mange-Minutes [The Wrath of the Minute Eater] (Kesselring, 1974) *Le Semble-Lune [The False Moon] (Horay, 1977; transl. as Barbarella & The Moon Child, Heavy Metal) *Le Miroir aux Tempêtes [The Storm Mirror] (originally serialized in "[[L'Écho des savanes]]", 1981; Albin Michel, 1982) *Bébé Cyanure [Baby Cyanide] (originally serialized in "Chouchou", 1964; Glénat, 1975) *Charlot a de la Chance [Charlot Is Lucky] (SPE, 1953) *Charlot et les Mammouths [The Mastodons] (SPE, 1954) *Charlot contre Mandrago Satanas [Charlot vs. Mandrago Satanas] (SPE, 1954) *Charlot Chercheur d'Uranium [Charlot Uranium Prospector] (SPE, 1955) *Charlot dans le Grands Monde [Charlot in High Society] (SPE, 1955) *Charlot Chevalier de la Table Ronde [Knight of the Round Table] (SPE, 1956) *Charlot dans les Affaires [Charlot in Business] (SPE, 1956) *Charlot se Débrouille [Charlot Manages] (SPE, 1958) *Charlot Pionnier Interplanétaire [Interplanetary Pioneer] (SPE, 1960) *Charlot et les Robots [The Robots] (SPE, 1961) *Charlot Gagne un Royaume [Charlot Wins A Kingdom] (SPE, 1962) *Hippolyte et les Diamants de Pesetas-City [Hippolyte & The Diamonds of Pesetas City] (Editions ELAN, date unknown, early 1950s?) *Enfants, c'est l'Hydragon qui Passe [Children, Watch The Hydragon Go By] (originally serialized in "[[À Suivre]]", 1983; Casterman, 1984) *Hypocrite et le Monstre du Loch Ness [Hypocrite and the Loch Ness Monster] (originally serialized in "[[France Soir]]", 1971; Serg, 1971) *Mystérieuse Matin, Midi et Soir [Mysterious Morning, Noon and Evening] (originally serialized in "Linus" and "[[Pif gadget|Pif]]", 1971; Dargaud, 1972) *Comment Décoder l'Étircopyh [How To Decode Etircopyh] (originally serialized in "[[Pilote]]", 1972; Dargaud, 1973) *N'Importe Quoi de Cheval [Anything But Horses] (originally serialized in "Pilote", 1973; Dargaud, 1974) *Ici Même [Same Here] (originally serialized in "À Suivre", 1978; Casterman, 1979) *La Jonque Fantôme Vue de l'Orchestre (originally serialized in "À Suivre", 1980; Casterman, 1981) *Il Faut y Croire pour le Voir [You Must Believe It To See It] (Dargaud, 1996) *Les Naufragés du Temps [The Castaways in Time, translated as Lost in Time] **1. L'Etoile Endormie [The Sleeping Star] (originally serialized in "Chouchou"; 1964; Hachette, 1974) **2. La Mort Sinueuse [The Creeping Death] (originally serialized in "Chouchou"; 1964; Hachette, 1975) **3. Labyrinthes [Labyrinths] (Hachette, 1976; translated by NBM) **4. L'Univers Cannibale [The Cannibal Universe] (Hachette, 1976) *Le Roman de Renart [The Novel of Renart] (Futuropolis, 1985) *Tiroirs de Poche et Fonds de Tiroirs [Pocket Drawers & Bottom of Drawers] (Horay, 1976)

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==External links== *[http://www.hollywoodcomics.com/forest.html Jean-Claude Forest webpage]

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