The cartoonist and cartoonist Calvi died at the age of 83 from natural causes on Monday, his two children announced on Tuesday April 12 in an email sent to Agence France-Presse.
Born on September 3, 1938 in Besançon in a family of doctors, Calvi – his real name Philippe Vallancien – had collaborated in France-Evening in the early 1970s, then Worldto Sunday newspaperand, until the 2000s, Figaro and at Figaro magazine, said his son, Grégoire Vallancien. For five years, he had a blog on the Mediapart club.
Calvi had produced courtroom sketches during various trials, including that of Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon during the Occupation, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987, and Maurice Papon, sentenced in 1998 for complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in the deportation of Jews between 1942 and 1944.
He had also published several comic strips, including albums featuring the character of Astrobald, a small extraterrestrial created for France-Eveningparachuted into Pompidou’s France, as well as The History of France from Clovis to Nicolas Iispublished in 2008, under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.