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French illustrator and comics artist
Pierre Joubert
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Born
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1910-06-27
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27 June 1910
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Died
| 13 January 2002
(2002-01-13)
(aged 91)
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Occupation(s)
| Illustrator
, comics artist
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Pierre Joubert
(June 27, 1910 – January 13, 2002) was a French
illustrator
and comics artist. He was closely associated with the creation of
Scouting
and the popular look of
Boy Scouts
in France and
Belgium
, comparable to the American artist
Norman Rockwell
.
Biography
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Pierre Joubert was born in
Paris
. Joubert was a young Scout himself, and attended the
Ecole des Arts Appliques
in Paris. His first amateur drawings appeared in
Scouts de France
in 1926. He graduated to the magazine
L'Illustration
in 1927 through 1934, but continued increasingly to focus on Scout-centered art in Scouting publications.
Joubert also was an illustrator of calendars, handbooks, boys' adventure
novels
, particularly the
Signe de Piste
(
Trail Sign
) line (where he worked with
Rene Follet
). The style of Joubert's illustrations depicted idealized boys experiencing the glories of Scouting and comradeship. Joubert is considered, owing to his eye for trend and his mass-market exposure, to have had reflective influence
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clarification needed
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on boy-culture in France from the 1930s until the close of the 1960s. He made the comic book
Gribouille, Scout
(1935) and two books of the
Pouf
series.
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Joubert had his controversial side; in the 1940s, the
Nazis
banned all French Scouting but through
Vichy
; thus, Joubert worked with Vichy and has been tarred with "
collaboration
."
[
citation needed
]
He also did work for some
right-wing
Catholic
journals and, as with any artist, the particulars of his patrons have been imputed to him.
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citation needed
]
Not long before his death, Joubert produced a large volume of memoirs and reprinted art,
Souvenirs en vrac
.
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He died in
La Rochelle
at age 91.
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