Pierre Joubert (June 27, 1910 – January 13, 2002) was a French

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and comics artist. He was closely associated with the creation of

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and the popular look of

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in France and

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, comparable to the American artist

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Biography

Pierre Joubert was born in

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. Joubert was a young Scout himself, and attended the

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in Paris. His first amateur drawings appeared in ''

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'' in 1926. He graduated to the magazine ''

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'' in 1927 through 1934, but continued increasingly to focus on Scout-centered art in Scouting publications. Joubert also was an illustrator of calendars, handbooks, boys' adventure novels, particularly the '' Signe de Piste'' (''Trail Sign'') line (where he worked with René Follet). The style of Joubert's illustrations depicted idealized boys experiencing the glories of Scouting and comradeship. Joubert is considered, owing to his eye for trend and his mass-market exposure, to have had reflective influence on boy-culture in France from the 1930s until the close of the 1960s. He made the comic book ''Gribouille, Scout'' (1935) and two books of the ''Pouf'' series. Joubert had his controversial side; in the 1940s, the Nazis banned all French Scouting but through

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; thus, Joubert worked with Vichy and has been tarred with Nazi collaboration. He also did work for some

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journals and, as with any artist, the particulars of his patrons have been imputed to him. Not long before his death, Joubert produced a large volume of memoirs and reprinted art, ''Souvenirs en vrac''. He died in

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at age 91.

References

Bibliography

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'' by

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Books and media of the artist's work
* Pierre Joubert was the draftsman of the newspaper of the World Scout Jamboree of 1947 in

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, France
Jamboree 1947

at the

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