Côté

By LatAm ARTE

André-Philippe Côté is a Canadian screenwriter and cartoonist, born in Quebec City in 1955 and began to make a name for himself thanks to his comics. He first became interested in science fiction and graphic research before publishing in the 1990s six albums of his "Baptiste le clochard" comics, depicting a philosophical protagonist, and two innovative comics entitled "Castello" and "Victor et Rivière". ”. In the 2000s, he released three albums featuring his character “Dr. Smog”, a strange psychiatrist. Côté has been an illustrator for a long time for the humor magazine “Safarir” and for the Quebec newspaper “Le Soleil”, for which he has also worked as an editorial cartoonist since 1997. Since that year, a collection of the best cartoons of he. “De tous les Côté”, “Ed. La Presse” and the Côté cartoons were exhibited in three major exhibitions. Caricatures of him are also often reproduced in Courrier International and Le Monde.