Benjamin Rabier is a French illustrator, comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 artist and animator. He became famous for creating La vache qui rit

The Laughing Cow

The Laughing Cow is a brand of cheese products made by Fromageries Bel, and in particular refers to the brand's most popular product, the spreadable wedge.-The product:...

, and is one of the precursors of animal comics. His work has inspired many other artists, notably Hergé

Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi , better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also...

 and Edmond-François Calvo.

Rabier started to work as an illustrator for various newspapers after meeting Caran d'Ache

Caran d'Ache

Caran d'Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré. "Caran d'Ache" comes from the Russian word karandash , meaning pencil...

. His most famous creations are Gideon the duck

Gideon (TV series)

Gideon was an late 1970s/early 1980s animated UK children's television series.This basic animation was centered around Gideon, a duck with an unusually long neck...

 and the characters he drew for Le roman de Renart

Reynard

Reynard is the subject of a literary cycle of allegorical French, Dutch, English, and German fables largely concerned with Reynard, an anthropomorphic red fox and trickster figure.-Etymology of the name:Theories about the origin of the name Reynard are:...

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About Benjamin Rabier