Cartoon by André François.
André François was born as André Farkas in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary. He studied arts in Budapest and settled in Paris in 1934. He started out working with the poster artist Adolphe Cassandre. He later worked as a painter, sculptor and graphic designer, but also became known as a cartoonist. He published his often subtle cartoons in French left wing papers like Le Nouvel Observateur, before finding an international audience through publications in Punch (UK) and The New Yorker (USA). He has also illustrated several books by authors like Jacques Prévert.
He was an influence on Ronald Searle, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Jules Feiffer, Tomi Ungerer, Gal (Gerard Alsteens), Hugoké, Joke, Benoît, Jean-Louis Lejeune, Gerald Scarfe, Vins (pseudonym of Vijay Narain Seth), Michael Atchinson and Quentin Blake.
Cartoon by André François.