Ylipe

Philippe Labarthe, pseudonym Ylipe (9 January 1936 – 8 March 2003) was a French humorist, artist, and writer.

He was born in Bordeaux and studied Fine Arts there before moving to Paris to work as a cartoonist, painter and aphorist. Maurice Nadeau misread the Greek φ as a Latin y and the name Ylipe stuck. His writing and painting often exhibit black humour; He died of lung cancer, having refused medical treatment.

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