Jean-Claude Forest (11 September 1930 – 30 December 1998)[1] was a French writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella.

[4] After creating Le Vaisseau Hanté (The Ghost Ship) he illustrated several issues of Charlot, a popular French comic book series loosely based on Charlie Chaplin.

[5] Together with renowned film director Alain Resnais, Forest was one of the founders of the French Comic-Strip Club in the early 1960s.

Forest became world-famous when he created the sexy sci-fi strip Barbarella, which was originally published in France in V Magazine in 1962.

In 1967 it was adapted by Terry Southern and Roger Vadim and made into a major motion picture, with Forest acting as design consultant.