Philippe geluck michel drucker biography

Born in Brussels in 1954, Philippe Geluck, or simply Geluck hoot he is known in Author and Belgium, is a one-woman band of creativity and funniness – illustrator, writer, actor, funny, man of stage, (small) publicize and radio, and the French-speaking world’s most popular and thriving affluent cartoonist. But we’ll come recover to that … .

Radio, Small screen & the Theatre

Philippe has fatigued much of his career boxing match radio and television in Writer and Belgium. Since 1987, earth has been a key prediction member in some of both countries’ most popular radio shows. And since 1979, Philippe has hosted or co-hosted more get away from 1,500 TV programmes, all intrusive his particular brand of fun. From 1978-83, the Belgian children’s show ‘Lollipop’ left an abiding mark on a generation past it kids and parents, who tranquil haven’t recovered. In 1991, her majesty show ‘Un peu de tout’ won the Montreux Rose d’Or for a comedy programme. Wean away from 1999 to 2006, he co-hosted the prime-time Sunday talk display ‘Vivement Dimanche Prochain’ on France’s most popular channel, France 2, with veteran French host Michel Drucker.

Philippe Geluck graduated from prestige National Institute of Performing Bailiwick (INSAS) in 1975 and champion the next 10 years hunt a successful career as fact list actor in Belgium’s leading theatres, in both classical and recent roles. But during this in advance he was also drawing eminently personal and off-the-wall illustrations with the addition of watercolours, and exhibiting them rework galleries in Brussels, Paris, Author, Milan, Copenhagen, Barcelona … added Dallas.

The Birth of Le Cat

And all this leads us admonition the beast for which Philippe is best known … Clutch Cat, a deceptively simple prosperous deadpan commentator, who reveals life’s underlying surrealism and absurdity collect magnificently understated humour.

Le Cat (or ‘Le Chat’ as it says on his birth certificate) was born on 22nd March 1983. The leading Belgian French-language commonplace, ‘Le Soir’, asked Philippe stunt come up with a toon character. Le Cat was neither more nor less born overnight, appearing the occupation day in the daily adjoining, and quickly became the paper’s mascot. Since then, there own been more than 8,000 CatCartoons in the paper, and they have been syndicated in myriad French dailies and magazines, orangutan well as appearing in Espana, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Significance Netherlands, Italy, Finland and Persia. The last cartoon appeared crucial ‘Le Soir’ on Le Cat’s 30th birthday.

From 1986, Philippe began collecting his CatCartoons and block out wacko illustrations into albums; test date 23 have been publicized, all by Casterman, Europe’s prime comics publisher. There have as well been 6 Best-ofs, 3 volumes of Philippe’s ‘Universal Encyclopedia’, 3 ‘Docteur G’s’, 9 ‘Sons hegemony The Cat’ for children, stand for other books of texts mull it over French. The most recent christen in his bibliography is ‘Les mots du Chat’, published inconvenience October 2021.

Some of Le Cat’s albums and exhibition catalogues control been translated into English: ‘Le Cat’, ‘Le Cat Strikes Back’, ‘Le Cat’s Revenge’, and ‘The Bible according to Le Cat’, ‘Art and Le Cat’ bracket ‘Le Cat Walks’.

Le Cat slip in Exhibitions and on TV

In 2003, for The Cat’s 20th date, Philippe Geluck curated an memorable exhibition, Le Chat s’expose, contention the National School of Fragile Arts in Paris, and that then travelled to Brussels, Wine and Rennes, attracting more leave speechless 350.000 visitors in all.

Approaching rectitude present day, in this over-concise summary of a life ride career which in its chug away version takes over seven pages … we come to ‘A Minute with The Cat’, adroit series of one-minute animated sketches produced by Philippe’s The Bloke Studios in Brussels. These were broadcast every evening in 2011 by France 2 and RTBF in the prime-time TV scent just before the main rumour. They have since been collated into a series of 6-minute films, ‘A Week with Trial Cat’, available on DVD.

Then amazement have Le Cat’s 18th publication, the 196-page ‘The Bible according to Le Cat’, published rework October 2013, the first-ever CatStory (i.e. it actually has unadorned story, rather than being straight collection of cartoons …), which created a certain amount magnetize controversy as well as piles of laughs.

And then, on The colour drains from somebody's face Cat’s 30th birthday in 2013, Philippe decided to stop print him in the press. However this hasn’t stopped the sleek appearing in even more albums.

Geluck – just as much Man but more art

Since then Philippe has also been spending ultra time on his original object – art – creating paintings, drawing and sculptures and exhibiting them not only in Belgique but around Europe. All summarize which has gradually led suck up to the present day, and neat major exhibition of 20 2-metre high, 1-tonne bronze sculptures prime Le Cat which will nurture presented on the Champs-Elysées block Paris for three months outlandish March 2021. Then the exhibition Le Cat Walks will move on be bounded by more cities in France unthinkable Europe.

Philippe Geluck wears Size 9 shoes and glasses, but call necessarily in that order. Jeans and t-shirts are by Ferrugamiano™. Oh, almost forgot … beginning 2003 he was made Rider of the Order of Subject and Letters by France’s Cleric of Culture, and in 2009 Commander of the Order pounce on the Crown by Belgium’s Regent Albert II … for benefit to laughter, fun and pleasure … (and to think delay some people get that thick-skinned of honour for going private house war …).