Placid is a French comic artist who has contributed to magazines such as Hara-Kiri, Lapin, Ferraille and La Mouise. He has studied fine arts and decorative arts. He has been active as an artist since the early 1980s. He was the artistic director of the publishing house Le Dernier Terrain Vague from 1988 to 1996 and the magazine Omnibus from 1991 to 2000. He is an illustrator and a cover artist for several publishers. A selection of his work in color has been published in 'Rien' ('Nothing') in 2002. Placid has an experimental and impressionistic drawing style as well as a bizarre sense of humor, and has been called "Picasso on acid".
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