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b. 1950 -

Martin Veyron (born 27 March 1950 in Dax, Landes, France) is a French cartoonist, novelist, and comics artist. He is notably best known for his artwork composition with the albums and as well as Editorial cartoons. His style oscillates between the vaudeville disenchanted and the study of mores a little scathing habits slightly bitter in the manner of Gérard Lauzier.

Martin Veyron was a high student where he studied at Art Deco school in Paris and graduated at Collège Stanislas de Paris. In 1975, he founded the Imaginon studio with Jean-Claude Denis and Caroline Dillard. He published first illustration in Lui, L'Expansion and Cosmopolitan. His debut comics date first back in 1977, that year he created in L'Écho des savanes with his favourite character. For this magazine, he wrote the story called Edmond le cochon was designed by Jean-Marc Rochette. In Pilote, that he also published Raoul et Remy in 1978 and he taken the name under pseudonym of Richard de Muzillac, Olivier Désmoreaux (drawing of Diego de Soria, 1984). His art albums appear in the Éditions du Fromage at Casterman and Éditions Albin Michel. In parallel, he had also published many cartoon in magazines including Libération, Paris Match, L'Obs and L'Événement du jeudi. His activity is unlimited to the design since 1985 when he adapted his album L'Amour propre on big screen.[1] In 1996, he published his first released novel Tremolo Corazon. In January 2001, he was received for the Grand Prix of Angoulême International Comics Festival, that which made him as a president of the comics festival in 2002.


He is married to his journalist wife Anne Chabrol, a former reporter at Belfast during the war in Northern Ireland and a former director of including magazines Elle, Glamour and Cosmopolitan. He has two children including sons Charles and Lambert[2]