Avril, François

With other artists, as Jacques de Loustal, Ted Benoît, Dupuy, Berbérian and Petit-Roulet, installed to Pigalle (Paris) in the middle of the years eighty, François Avril operates in the borders of the graphic art, the comic strip and the advertising. These artists create the School of Pigalle, label which would have himself been forged by Avril, according to the Parisian district of the same name. His minimalist line arouses the greed of agencies and publishing houses. Among the most representative comic strips of the work of Avril, let us quote "Doppelgänger SA", "Soirs de Paris" (with Petit-Roulet), "El Rebelde, le Rebelle" (with Cabry) and "Le chemin des 3 Places" (with Jean-Claude Götting), and many Artbooks and Portfolios.