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Tom-Tom and Nana were created in 1977 by Bernadette Després and Jacqueline Cohen.
YOUTH LITERATURE – Tom-Tom and Nana in mourning. Bayard Editions announced this Wednesday, November 20, the death of Bernadette Després, designer and co-creator of Tom-Tom and Nana, reports The World. Since the creation of the two kids in 1977, their adventures have become a true cultural phenomenon… especially for all the children who subscribe to the magazine I like to read.
The latest stories of Tom-Tom and Nana, the two offspring of the Dubouchon family, owners of the restaurant At the right forkdate back to 2009, “when one of the screenwriters, Jacqueline Cohen, stopped writing stories”noted The World.
Awarded in Angoulême in 2019 for all of her work, she then entrusted The Cross : “ Drawing and my husband saved me. » And to assume a form of lightness: “Children’s books now want to deliver a political message. It never interested me. I always wanted to make people laugh. »
The comic strip was adapted into an animated series in 1997. A new version is created in 2019.
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