Gérard Lauzier

[3] In Brazil, he contributed editorial cartoons to Jornal do Bahia until he left the country in the wake of the 1964 military coup.

Back in France, he worked for a number of magazines, most notably the soft erotic Lui where he made the series Les sextraordinaires aventures de Zizi et Peter Panpan.

[2] His most iconic character is Michel Choupon, an oversexed and philosophical 18-year-old, who starred in the comic Souvenirs d'un Jeune Homme and in the movie P'tit Con.

His most famous film is the 1991 Mon père ce héros with Gérard Depardieu, remade in English as My Father the Hero.

Other titles include Le fils du Français with Josiane Balasko and Fanny Ardant, and Je vais craquer [fr] with Christian Clavier.