Georges Wolinski

Georges Wolinski was a jewish French cartoonist and comics writer.

Wolinski was born in Tunis, French Tunisia, in 1934.

After discontinuing his architecture studies in Paris, Georges Wolinski began cartooning in 1960, contributing political and erotic cartoons and comic strips to the satirical monthly Hara-Kiri.

During the student revolts of May 1968, Wolinski co-founded the satirical magazine L'Enragé with Siné.

In the early 1970s Wolinski collaborated with the comics artist Georges Pichard to create Paulette which appeared in Charlie Mensuel and provoked reactions in France during its publication.

Wolinski's work is seen to date in the daily newspaper Libération, the weekly Paris-Match,L'Écho des savanes and Charlie Hebdo.

He was awarded the Legion of Honour, France's highest decoration, in 2005.

Mr Wolinski lived in Paris, was married twice, first to Jacqueline Saba, with whom he had two children, Frederica and Natacha. 

He then married Maryse Bachere in 1971 and they together had one daughter called Elsa-Angela. 

Wolinski died along with his colleagues Cabu, Charb and Tignous in the gun attack at Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris in 2015.

Bibliography

• Paulette, art by Georges Pichard
  • Paulette Tome 1, 1971
  • Paulette Tome 2, 1972
  • Le mariage de Paulette, Le Square, 1974
  • Paulette en Amazonie, Le Square, 1975
  • Ras-le-bol-ville, Le Square, 1975
  • Le cirque des femmes, Le Square, 1977
  • Les Pensées, Le Square, 1981
  • Paulette, Dargaud, 1984

Awards

• 2005: Angoulême Festival, Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême