Calvi had collaborated in “France-Evening” in the early 1970s, then to the “World”, the “Sunday Journal” and, until the 2000s, at the Figaro and “Figaro Magazine”. For five years, he had a blog on the Mediapart Club.
Le Monde and AFP
Calvi’s caricaturist and draftsman died at 83 years of natural death Monday, announced, Tuesday, April 12, his two children in an email addressed to the France-Presse agency.
Born on September 3, 1938 in Besançon in a family of doctors, Calvi – of his real name Philippe Vallancien – had collaborated in France-night in the early 1970s, then to the world, in the newspaper of Sunday, and, until In the 2000s, in Figaro and Figaro Magazine, said his son, Gregory Vallancien. For the last five years, he had a Blog on the Mediapart Club.
Calvi had carried out sketches at different trials, including that of Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon during the occupation, convicted of perpetuity criminal imprisonment in 1987, and Maurice Papon, convicted in 1998 For complicity of crimes against humanity for its role in the deportation of Jews between 1942 and 1944.
He had also published several comics, including albums featuring the character of Astrobald, small extraterrestrial created for France-night, parachuté in France of Pompidou, as well as the history of France of Clovis in Nicolas I er , published in 2008, under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.