Nikita Mandryka (20 October 1940 – 13 June 2021)[1][2] was a French comics artist.

[3] He started drawing in the Vaillant magazine, before moving to Pilote in 1967, and then created L'Écho des savanes along with Claire Bretécher and Marcel Gotlib in 1972.

His major and better known works are Le Concombre Masqué (The Masked Cucumber) stories.

He won the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême in 1994.

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