Raymond Poïvet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raymond Poïvet

French cartoonist

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1910

Place of Birth: Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 30-Aug-1999

Profession: comics artist, drawer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Raymond Poïvet (June 17, 1910 – August 30, 1999) was a French cartoonist. Poïvet was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord. After studies in École des Beaux-Arts of Paris, he started in comics in 1941.
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 August 30, 1999 in Nogent-le-Rotrou (Eure-et-Loir).