"When you're a woman and you're healthily selfish, you're a feminist": how Claire Bretécher liberated women through her drawings
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Excerpt from the album "Les Frustrés, l'Intégrale". CLAIRE BRETÉCHER / DARGAUD
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Story In the masculine world of comics, the creator of "Frustrés" freed women from aesthetic codes.
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Pregnant woman. Bored woman at a party. Woman sunbathing. Woman drawing. Woman bringing home the groceries. Woman who can no longer stand her child. Woman slamming the door. Woman looking at her rolls of fat in the mirror. Teenage women, mothers, grandmothers. Hardworking, lazy, sullen women. Lively. Therefore, funny. Under Bretécher's pencil, women have surpassed parity, exploded the quota.
When Claire Bretécher joined "Pilote" in 1969, she was the first woman to draw in the weekly magazine directed by René Goscinny, the creator of Asterix. The same goes for her character, Cellulite: apart from "Valérian and Laureline" , created in 1967, the series were then written for men. This was the lot of post-war comics: stories about boys told by boys, intended for boys. And girls who love comics should...
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