Line #26 Creator/TomiUngerer


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3	Jean-Thomas Théodore Ungerer (28 November 1931 – 9 February 2019), [[PenName better known as]] Tomi Ungerer, was a multifaceted artist (primarily cartoonist and illustrator) and writer from [[UsefulNotes/DepartementalIssues Alsace]], France.
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5	He published over 140 PictureBooks ranging from ChildrensLiterature to adult works (as in, [[NotSafeForWork erotic]]), and from the fantastical to the autobiographical, primarily in English, UsefulNotes/{{German\|Language}} and UsefulNotes/{{French\|Language}} languages (the latter two being the ones he grew up with alongside Alsace's particular Germanic dialect). He was known for his sharp [[{{Satire}} social and political satire]], his witty aphorisms in the same spirit as some forerunner cartoonists such as the French Honoré Daumier and the German George Grosz, and for being quite the oddball in general.
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7	He lived under the German reannexation of Alsace and Moselle by the UsefulNotes/{{Nazi\|Germany}}s as a teen during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which later inspired him {{pacifist}} and antiracist works. From 1956 to 1971, he lived and worked in the USA, supporting the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement and opposing UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar with his posters and illustrations. When he came back to Europe, he lived alternately between Cork, UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} (where his wife was from), and the city of Strasbourg (where he was born) from 1976 to his passing at age 87 in 2019.
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9	A revered cultural figure in his native area, he has a museum dedicated to his works and personal collections in Strasbourg.
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11	!!Some of his works:
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13	* ''Literature/{{Crictor}}'' (1958)
14	* ''Literature/TheThreeRobbers'' (1961)
15	* ''Literature/MoonMan'' (1966)
16	* ''Literature/OttoAutobiographyOfATeddyBear'' (1999)
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19	!!Documentaries:
20	* ''Fascinating Fascism'' (1996), about his youth under Nazi annexation.
21	* ''[[https://youtu.be/cQlWgnerTRc Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story]]'' (2012), about his life in general.
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23	!!Tropes in his works:
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25	* AnimatedAdaptation:
26	** ''The Three Robbers'' (''Les Trois Brigands'' / ''Die drei Räuber'') was adapted first as an American cartoon short by Creator/GeneDeitch in 1972, then as a [[WesternAnimation/TheThreeRobbers German feature film]] in 2007 by Hayo Freitag (the latter was retitled ''Trick or Treaters'' for the American market).
27	** ''Moon Man'' (''Jean de la Lune'' / ''Der Mondmann'') was adapted by Stephan Schesch as a French-Irish-German co-production film in 2012.
28	* [[invoked]]HeAlsoDid:
29	** He made some FilmPosters, such as [[https://www.avoir-alire.com/IMG/jpg/mv5bzwi3ztmxnjctmjdlns00nmuwlwfim2ytzduyy2i3n2mxyte0xkeyxkfqcgdeqxvynzkwmjq5nzm_._v1_.jpg this one]] for Creator/StanleyKubrick's ''Film/DrStrangelove'', Claude Lelouch's ''[[https://fr.web.img5.acsta.net/pictures/23/01/10/16/33/5502449.jpg Tout ça… pour ça!]]'' and the [[https://fr.web.img4.acsta.net/medias/nmedia/18/90/20/64/20139074.jpg French poster]] for Creator/KenLoach's ''Film/TheAngelsShare''.
30	** He drew the covers for Patricia Highsmith's novels in the collection Le Livre de Poche in France in TheNineties.
31	* EroticDream: At the museum housing works and toys of his in Strasbourg, his erotic drawings straight out of his imagination (including dreams he had) are exhibited in the underground level, which cannot be accessed by minors.
32	* PropagandaMachine: He kept a collection of Nazi propaganda pictures and papers and published it, as well as recalled his own memories of it with testimonies and his own caricature art, in the book ''Propaganda - Histoire de se souvenir'' (''Propaganda - Just to Remember'') and in the 1996 documentary ''Fascinating Fascism''.
33	* ReluctantMonster: Somewhat downplayed but still in this vein, many of his children's books star disliked animals like a constrictor, a vulture etc.
34	* SorcerersApprenticePlot: ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' (''Guillaume l'apprenti sorcier'' in French), a picture book inspired by the story originally written by Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe.

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