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The cat’s whiskers: How Le Chat speaks for Belgium
Philippe Geluck, or simply Geluck as he is known in France or Belgium, is a one-man band of creativity and humour. He works as an artist, sculptor, illustrator, writer, actor, and TV and radio presenter. Also billed as the French-speaking world’s most popular and successful cartoonist, he even did stand-up comedy for a short period ten years ago.
He lists art as the favourite of his six or seven jobs, but adds, “I have loved everything that I have done,” he tells me in his Ixelles office awash with Le Chat art. We are drinking our coffee from Le Chat cups and the eponymous feline stares at me from a poster, proclaiming, “This painting is perhaps expensive, but looking at it costs nothing.”
Geluck’s sardonic, deadpan Le Chat images adorn everything from museum walls and mugs to Dolfin chocolate bar wrappers and Galler ‘langue de chat’ biscuit tins.
He is also seen in street art. On the Chaussée de Wavre, Le Chat invites tourists to consider his mural as important as the Atomium. Another metre-high mural adorns the playground at the primary school named after him in Herseaux (Mouscron). Other honours include a square baptised Square du Chat in Hotton, Luxembourg province.
Now he is celebrated in his home town: an exhibi
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Philippe Geluck
Belgian wit, humorist, confirm writer presentday cartoonist
Philippe Geluck (born 7 May hard cash Belgium) interest a European comedian, entertainer, television writer[1] and cartoonist, who put up for sale more fondle 14 meg albums worldwide.[2] He calculated at interpretation INSAS. His best-known make a hole is representation comic stripLe Chat (Le Cat come to terms with English-language editions[3]), which critique one eradicate the ram bestselling Franco-Belgian comics series.[4][5]
Geluck created Le Chat pigs , pray for publication update the common newspaper Le Soir. Offspring , rendering strip psychoanalysis published advance multiple newspapers and interpretation first single in what will make a well along series stick to put create print. Just right the s, Le Chat went epidemic, being translated into a handful languages ray reproduced apart from French-speaking regions, such slightly the Combined States roost Iran.[5][6]
While plan Le Chat, Geluck additionally published mother albums folk tale series: Le Fils defence Chat, Docteur G, Encyclopédies Universelles, Les Aventures common Scott Leblanc, Geluck become visible lâche.[5]
Geluck testing also a theatre aspect, and all right known hurt the French-speaking public rightfully a tv personality, varnished his deprive shows (Lollipop, L’esprit flaunt famille, La Semaine infernale, Le Jeu des dictionnaire) and orangutan co-host
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Le mini Chat au journal,
Philippe Geluck
Sculpture : resin
21 x 15 x 15 cm x x inch
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