Serge de Beketch, 1946-2007

The right-wing French journalist Serge de Beketch, who collaborated on comics and provided humorous prose pieces to Pilote in the late 1960s and early 1970s, died on Saturday from complications due to Hepatitis B, which he contracted a decade and a half earlier while treating his Hodgkin's disease. He was 60 years old. I believe his primary comics writing achievement was a collaboration with Loro on the series Thorkael, which had two serials in the 1971 and 1973 and was reprinted a couple of times subsequently. Thorkael was a modestly successful version of the kind of wildly-illustrated French science fiction comics that made an impression on United States audiences in the 1970s and early 1980s. He also worked on French versions of stories from Warren magazines such as Eerie. He would leave Pilote when Rene Goscinny departed in the mid-1970s, at which point he began more fervently the contentious journalistic career for which he would become best known.

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.
 
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