Marcel Gotlib
Marcel Gotlib (July 19, 1934 - December 4, 2016) was a French comics artist, best known for his loony graphic style and often controversial subject matter. He was the creator of the series Gai-Luron, Hamster Jovial, Pervers Pépère, writer of the series Superdupont (drawn by Jacques Lob) and co-founder of the alternative comic magazines L'Écho des Savanes and Fluide Glacial.
Marcel Gotlib and Frank Zappa
Gotlib recalled smoking his first joint in the toilets during the break at a Frank Zappa concert, which helped him adore Zappa's music for the rest of his life. [1]
Some of his 1970's comics reference Frank Zappa and Jimmy Carl Black as "The Indian of the Group".[2]
His "Hamster Jovial" cartoons about a naive scouts leader, featured a gag where Hamster Jovial listens to 200 Motels and decides to measure his penis after listening to Penis Dimension. Later, when Tina Turner is performing on TV, he gets sexually aroused and wants to measure his penis again, only to discover that the size hasn't increased much. He concludes: "Pop music is full of contradictions!"
In another cartoon, Hamster Jovial tries to imitates Captain Beefheart's growly voice by singing "I'm Going To Booglarize You, Baby" from his album "The Spotlight Kid" (1972), but throws up in the process. His girlfriend doesn't mind, since its "the gift itself that counts."
In the early years of Fluide Glacial, with the help of Alain Dister, Gotlib participated with Solé's comic strip parody based on Stink-Foot, depicting a caricature of Frank Zappa[3]. Around 1984, bootleggers reused the caricature to do the cover artwork for 'Tis The Season To Be Jelly.
