Raymond Poïvet

Raymond Poïvet (17 June 1910 – 30 August 1999) was a French cartoonist.

[1] After studies at Beaux-Arts de Paris, he started in comics in 1941.

[2] In 1945 he joined the communist French comics weekly magazine Vaillant, which was renamed Pif in 1969.

He created the first and longest running French science-fiction comics: Les Pionniers de l'Espérance, which lasted until 1973.

Meanwhile, he also drew for other comics and feminine magazines: Colonel X in Coq hardi, Mam'zelle Nitouche in L'Humanité, and Guy Lebleu in Pilote.