F'Murr

Richard Peyzaret (March 31, 1946 – April 10, 2018), better known by his pen name F'Murrr or F'Murr, was a French cartoonist and comic book writer. He was most famous for the long-running series Le Génie des alpages (The Genius of the Mountain Pastures).

Biography

Peyzaret grew up as an admirer of Hergé and André Franquin, but studied Applied Arts for six years in Paris before meeting the BD industry, by arriving at the workshop of Raymond Poïvet. This led to an introduction to René Goscinny and starting work for Pilote magazine in 1971, making his debut with the gags series Contes à Rebours. The unused boards of this strip later formed the basis of his first album, Au loup!.

In 1985 he began the strip Histoires Déplacées in (À SUIVRE) satirizing the ongoing Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. These were collected in the 1987 album named Le char de l'état dérape sur le sentier de la guerre (The State's Tank Slips on the Path of War).

Eight albums of Le Genie des Alpages were published in Norway in the 1980s by A/S Hjemmet-Serieforlaget under the name of Ullkorn, which is a pun on "gullkorn", a Norwegian word for aphorism - i.e. corn being found as gold (gull), or in this instance, wool (ull).

The first four albums of "Le Genie des Alpages" were published in Denmark in the 1980s by Serieforlaget under the name of "Fårfængelighedens marked", which is a pun on "får", the name for sheep, and "Forfængelighedens marked" (Vanity Fair).

Awards 1978: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Best Comic Book for Barre-toi de mon herbe 1991: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Humour Award for Le pauvre chevalier