Raymond Poïvet

Raymond Poïvet (17 June 1910 – 30 August 1999) was a French cartoonist.

Raymond Poïvet
Born	17 June 1910 Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Paris
Died	29 August 1999 Nogent-le-Rotrou, Paris
Alma mater	Beaux-Arts de Paris
Occupation	Cartoonist

Biography

Poïvet was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord.^[1] After studies at Beaux-Arts de Paris, he started in comics in 1941.^[2]

In 1945 he joined the communist French comics weekly magazine Vaillant, which was renamed Pif in 1969. He created the first and longest running French science-fiction comics: Les Pionniers de l'Espérance, which lasted until 1973. The scenarios were written by Roger Lecureux. Meanwhile, he also drew for other comics and feminine magazines: Colonel X in Coq hardi, Mam'zelle Nitouche in L'Humanité, and Guy Lebleu in Pilote.

Poïvet died on 30 August 1999 in Nogent-le-Rotrou.