Lefred Thouron is a French cartoonist and writer.

Early life

He was born in Nancy,

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in 1961.

Career

His first cartoons were published in 1984 in ''

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and'' weekly news magazine ''L'événement du Jeudi'', the daily ''

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'', ''7 à Paris'', '' La Grosse Bertha'' and ''

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'' (which he left in 1996 following the Patrick Font controversy). He authored 20 or so books. Lefred works for the French irreverent political press, ''

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'', where he is one of the chief contributors with Pétillon and

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. He contributes a weekly column for ''l'Équipe magazine'' that covers sports news. For ''

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'' he contributes humorous illustrations, cartoons, articles and photo-stories. As a writer, Thouron collaborated with Yan Lindingre on ''Les carottes sont crues'', a spoof on the "organic" craze. He brought back to life ''The Adventures of Super-Dupont'' with

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and

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in the magazine ''

''. He worked with Diego Aranega to produce ''Casiers Judiciaires '', slices of life in a provincial courthouse, recently published as a collection by

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Bibliography

Press

Le Canard Enchaîné, L’Équipe Magazine, Fluide Glacial, La Décroissance, CQFD, Libération, etc.

Books and collections

Dargaud

*Casiers Judiciaires (artwork by Diego Aranega)

Glénat

*Œuvres complètes, tome 8 (houit) *Manger est bon *Nos animaux les bêtes *Étons modernes

Fluide Glacial

*Soyons sports dans l’effort *Le sport bourse pleine *Je suis gland *Ich bin vraiiiment gland *Superdupont

Hors Collection

*Ana-Gangné

Canal+ éditions

*600 blagues de Sport (with Eric Bayle)

Bikini

*Les 5000 meilleurs dessins de Lefred Thouron *Gros Congé *Toi & Moi *Poulet pur porc

Les Requins Marteaux

*Les carottes sont crues (artwork by Lindingre)

Verticales

*Aimémé Jacquet, droit au but par la diagonale

Albin Michel

*Bernadette, priez pour nous

Editions du Layeur

*Et puis c’est comme ça

References

French editorial cartoonists French magazine cartoonists French comics writers French comics artists 20th-century French illustrators 21st-century French illustrators French political artists French satirists French satirical comics writers French satirical comics artists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{cartoonist-stub