Ronald Topor

By LatAm ARTE

Roland Topor (January 7, 1938 - April 16, 1997). He was a French illustrator, caricaturist, comic book artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and television writer, filmmaker, and actor, known for the surreal nature of his work. His greatest success was as a macabre cartoonist. He used his work to illustrate his novels, plays and other writings, produced many volumes of graphics, and exhibited his work widely in galleries both in France and abroad. His drawings resembled in many ways the graphic novels of Max Ernst and the equally grim work of the Alsatian artist Tomi Ungerer, but humor was always present in the absurd situations he depicted, many of them based on fantastic images, others on images that they linked humanity with the world of worms and insects or reptiles. Though he looked fine in public, his friends knew he had dark periods of extreme depression, and the bizarre fantasies he drew and painted no doubt reflected a mind that brooded on death and decay and the many germs and viruses that live in our lives. bodies. At the age of 59, Topor suffered a massive stroke and brain hemorrhage. In person, he was generous and warm to a large number of friends who, while aware of his bad tempers, never had to suffer from them.

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