Edmond Kiraz

Edmond Kiraz, born Kirazian (August 25, 1923 – August 11, 2020), was an Egyptian-born French-Armenian cartoonist and illustrator.

Biography

Born in Cairo of Armenian descent, Kiraz began his career as a political cartoonist at 17 (without artistic training) in Egypt,[1] before emigrating to post-World War II Paris. In 1950 he created the comic strip Line. [2]In 1959, while he was working for the French magazine Jours de France, his boss, Marcel Dassault, had him move from politics to humor. As time passed, Kiraz developed a distinctive and humorous pictorial style of representing women that he called Les Parisiennes: very thin, with long legs, small breasts, and a pouty face.

His cartoons are often not only humorous but slightly naughty or erotic, and since 1970 he contributed regularly to Playboy magazine.[3]

Cartoon collections
  • Lissi, Diogène, 1954.
  • Carnet de belles, Pulcinella, 1959.
  • Les Parisiennes (Parisian Women), Denoël, 1963.
  • Les Parisiennes au volant, Denoël, 1966.
  • La Parfaite Secrétaire, Denoël, 1967.
  • Parlez-moi de moi : les Parisiennes, Denoël, 1973.
  • Sonate à quatre mains, Filipacchi-Denoël, 1978.
  • Les Femmes de Kiraz, Plon, 1985.
  • Les Parisiennes se marient, Assouline, 1994.
  • Je les aime comme ça (I Like Them That Way), Denoël, 2000.
  • Jamais le premier soir (Never the First Night), Denoël, 2001.
  • Kiraz dans Playboy (Kiraz in Playboy), Denoël, 2002.
  • Elles et moi (The Girls and I), Denoël, 2003.
  • Mini drames, Denoël, 2005.

References
  1. https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2020-08-11-kiraz--the-designer-of-%22parisiennes%22--died-at-the-age-of-96.H1TNxkMxzw.html
  2. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kiraz.htm
  3. https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/edmond-kiraz-american-b-1923-playboy-cartoon-illustration-page-149-june-1973gouache-on-board12-x-9/a/7017-93043.s
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