Philippe Fix

Philippe Fix (born 1 May 1937) is a French illustrator and author of children's books. He studied Decorative Arts in Strasbourg at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs and Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Career

Born in Grendelbruch, Département du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, Fix created the comic character Chouchou for the magazine Salut les copains in 1963.[1][2][3] The magazine Chouchou was founded specifically for the character in 1964,[4] and in the same year it appeared as a "singer" on two CDs with the voice of Jean-Jacques Debout at higher speed, including one song "La Mascotte des copains" with Fix's lyrics.[5][6][7] In 1965 it appeared in the magazine Pilote.[8] The book Chouchou au Far West was published in 1966.[9]

Books with Fix' illustrations have appeared in French, German, English, Italian, Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Welsh, Swedish, Norwegian (bokmål), Spanish, Afrikaans, Japanese, Lithuanian, Portuguese, and Hebrew.

Awards

Bibliography
Title Year ISBN
Chouchou au Far West 1966
Le Merveilleux Chef-d'oeuvre de Séraphin (English title: The House That Beebo Built) 1967 978-2842301491
Séraphin contre Séraphin (English title: Beebo and the Fizzimen) 1968
Défense de lire Séraphin (English title: Beebo & Ben and the Funny Machine) 1968
The kangaroo with a hole in her pocket 1968
Alexander and the Magic Mouse 1969 9780828150064
L'éléphant rose à point d'or (English title: Arabella, the pink and gold spotted elephant) 1970
The book of giant stories 1972 978-1-56397-976-7
Mumps und Tilli reisen mit der Zeitmaschine (English title: Tim and Tilly and the Time Machine) 1977 3-257-00587-3
Popcorn the Hipporhino 1977 9780224013031
Mumps und Tilli kehren zurück 1978 9783257006070
Le livre de Paris - 2/Chroniques Parisiennes 1990 9782070395590
L'atelier du Père Noël 1992 9782070567737
Weihnachtszeit, schönste Zeit 1996 978-3473333653
Contes populaires du Maroc (English title: Moroccan Myths & Legends) 2003 978-2842301507

References
  1. "Philippe Fix - 1 Buch". Perlentaucher (in German). 1 October 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  2. "Philippe Fix". lambiek.net. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  3. Entry on Philippe Fix at babelio
  4. Article about the magazine Chouchou at bdzoom.com
  5. Chouchou at Bide & Musique
  6. JOHNNY HALLYDAY - L'idole (+Argus), by Daniel Lesueur, CAMION BLANC, 2010, ISBN 9782357791008
  7. Souvenirs, souvenirs-- cent ans de chanson française by Bertrand Bonnieux, Pascal Cordereix, Élizabeth Giuliani, Gallimard, 2004. 9782070314812
  8. "Fix". Bandes dessinées oubliées (in French). Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  9. Fix, P. (1966). Chouchou au far-west. Grands albums Hachette (in French). Hachette. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  10. (in Italian) Awardees Bologna Children's Book Fair 1970.
  11. (in Italian) Awardees Bologna Children's Book Fair 1972.
  12. "ALO docView - IBBY Honour List (1990) (1990)". Austrian Literature Online. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

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