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Ammar Abboud on the Passing of Serge de Beketch
posted October 11, 2007
 

" This article at ActuaBD.com seems to detail how de Beketch worked in not-always flattering commentary about the world of comics and its best-known practitioners into his more flamboyant writing. That article and other suggest he did some minor work with collaborators like Jacques Tardi and Enki Bilal during their younger days, although what exactly that entailed I have no idea. "

In the post-68 Pilote, whose editor in chief was René Goscinny, now sole editor in chief, trtansformed the weekly magazine into a kind of Help (Kurtzman's help) where the usual BD stories cooesited with humurous social commentary of various kind ( for example Bilal's earliest story was on the tour de france) and always short (1 or 2 pages) Beketch wrote some of these stories to the folowing (mainly beginners): Alexis, Loro, Poppé, Jean Solé, Martial, Goussé, Claire Bretécher, Peter Glay, Daniel Billon, Enki Bilal, Mulatier, Florenci Clavé, Julio Ribéra, Antonio Parras, Boussot, Alexandre Coutelis, Yves Got, Guyn Mouminoux, Jacques Tardi, Gibo, Mic Delinx, Morchoisne, Jean Tabary, Harry North et Claude Auclair ! only with Loro did he have a continous collaboration and only Loro a one or two others were not Leftists!

the question of commentary relates to the fact that this self-declared monarchist in the 60's and early 70's joined an extreem-right newpaper when he left Pilote and later became the editor in chief, joined the fascist Front National in the 80's where in one of its unoffcial press pointed to the main Caartonists of France and Belgium as proven of having « evidently a guilty indulgence in order not to say a showen sympathy to the Mostrious Beast [Faschism] »... First amongst them was Rene Goscinny, who comes from a Jewish Family!