'Les Tribulations de Minouche'.
Rold was a mid-20th century French comic artist about whom little is known, except that he had a large production of humorous comic strips for the press between 1950 and 1957. All of Rold's characters were young, attractive and resourceful females, so perhaps the cartoonist was a woman too. Rold's most notable series were 'Les Tribulations de Minouche' (1950-1954), 'Totoche, Pin-up de Malheur' (1951) and 'Mlle Bénédikte' (1957).
Life and career
Nothing is known about the identity of the artist Rold. This specific creator of humor comics should not be confused with another French artist using the pen name "Rold", whose real name was Roland Colomb and who drew realistic comics during the 1950s and 1960s. Rold is also not the same artist as Rol (Roland Venet), who drew many comics and game pages for newspapers and magazines. This Rold drew over 900 episodes of 'Les Tribulations de Minouche' (1950-1954), published in Libération and Le Provencal. For the Paris-Graphic agency, he or she additionally made 'Pomme d'Api' (1950-1951) in Ce Soir. This character could be the same as 'Minouche', but under a different name.
'Mlle. Bénédikte'.
Rold also drew 'Totoche, Pin-up de Malheur' (1951), a comic about a pin-up girl, which was partially a gag comic and a serial. Her adventures were scripted by Jean Prado (real name: Jean Pradeau) and ran in the magazine Ici Paris. The final known Rold creation was the gag comic 'Mlle Bénédikte' (also known as 'Mademoiselle Bénédikte', 1957), about a young woman whose antics could be enjoyed in the magazine Paris-Flirt.
'Totoche, Pin-up de Malheur'.