Francois Clauteaux, 19XX-2007

According to a posting at afNews.info, Francois Clauteaux, a co-founder and driving behind the creation of the seminal comics publication Pilote, died on March 25. Although some of the on-line articles out there describe Pilote almost solely as an effort of comics creators like Jean-Michel Charlier, Alberto Uderzo and Rene Goscinny, others point to Clauteaux, a veteran of L'Oreal, and his desire to make a value-driven secular youth magazine that reflected French culture rather than the America of the American imports flooding the market, as a key factor. No matter the nature and degree of his involvement, Clauteaux was surely present and involved in the creation of one of the great publications in the history of comics around the world, and thus also important in terms of that magazine's significant early offerings like the iconic and massively successful Asterix.
 
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