Nicole Claveloux (French: [klav(ə)lu]; born June 23, 1940) is a French painter, illustrator and comic book artist.

Biography

She was born in Saint-Étienne and studied fine arts there. She moved to Paris in 1966, where she worked as an illustrator and comics artist for various magazines including Planète, Okapi [fr] and Marie Claire.^[1]

Her illustration style incorporates both psychedelic use of colour and sophisticated black and white images.^[2]

Her work was included in several exhibitions, including Nicole Claveloux et compagnie at Villeurbanne in 1995 and a retrospective at the Mediatheque Hermeland at Saint-Herblain.^[3]

Selected works

• Le Voyage extravagant de Hugo Brisefer (1967)
• Alala: Les télémorphoses (1970), illustrator. Published by Harlin Quist in English as The Teletrips of Alala
• Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles (1972), illustrator
• La Main verte (1978), comic book featuring a series of short stories from Métal Hurlant. Published in English in 2017 as The Green Hand
• Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue (1981), illustrator
• Dedans les gens (1993), received the Prix Totem Album at the Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse [fr] in Montreuil
• Alboum (1998), illustrator, text by Christian Bruel [fr] received the Prix Sorcières^[4]
• Morceaux choisis de la Belle et la Bête, erotic book (2003), illustrator
• Mon Gugus à moi (2004), illustrator, received the Prix Cécile-Gagnon [fr]^[5]
• Un roi, une princesse et une pieuvre (2005), illustrator, received the Prix Goncourt Jeunesse^[6]
• Professeur Totem et docteur Tabou (2006), illustrator
• Gargantua (2007), illustrator
• Confessions d'un monte-en-l'air, erotic book (2007), illustrator
• Contes de la Fève et du Gland, erotic book (2010), illustrator
• La Belle et la bête, children's book (2013), illustrator
• Nours, children's book (2014), illustrator
• Quel genre de bisous ?, children's book (2016)
• The Green Hand and Other Stories (2017), with Édith Zha, translated into English by Donald Nicholson-Smith^[2]