Talk:Philippe Fix

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The article already exists in French, German and Swedish. There is a wikidata entry on him, but I don't know how to include it here. Crotopaxi (talk) 07:53, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Several sources like Ricochet say he won "Prix Loisirs Jeunes 1968 ; Diplôme d'honneur H.C. Andersen 1990" but I cannot find anything about these prizes and I do not regard the publishers as reliable sources. Anyone? Crotopaxi (talk) 06:04, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Publisher hoebeke writes about him that his character Chouchou was reused for the TF1 series Salut les chouchous[1], and this was copied to babelio. A youtuve video shows it is true: [2]. Does anyone have reliable sources for this? Crotopaxi (talk) 06:47, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

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Hi @Curb Safe Charmer, Galobtter, and NewYorkActuary:

Crotopaxi contacted me on the French Wikipedia regarding this draft because I had added a reference on Chouchou's (the mascot Fix created) page there.

I agree that the prizes Fix won are not impressive (here is by the way the source for his 1990 Hans Christian Andersen Diploma, a prize given every 2 years to an illustrator from each member country of the IBBY, the organisation behind the Hans Christian Andersen Award) but apart from the creating Chouchou he illustrated more than 40 books for important children publishing houses (Gallimard Jeunesse, Bayard Press, Deux coqs d'or) in the 1960s to 1990s and worked in the early 2000s for Hoëbeke which is a renowed « beaux-livres » publisher.

Fix's books or the books he illustrated were translated into at least 8 languages, including English (9 books) and Japanese (which isn't such an open market). The American author David L. Harrison asked him to illustrate his Book of Giant Stories (published 1972) at a time when it was not that common for French children artists to cross the Atlantic.

All this leads me to think that Fix was famous at least in the late 1960s and 1970s in the then not much discussed children literature field. As it seems his career ended around the time of Wikipedia's birth there are not many available sources online about him but his inclusion into Lambiek Comiclopedia should work as a sufficient indication of his past notability and I think there is enough reliable information to write a short article. I asked the WikiProject Children's literature if they had any further opinion.

The three Seraphin childrens' books were quite popular in Germany. And they are still in print (Diogenes). 134.247.251.245 (talk) 15:51, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Regarding Chouchou (mascot) : it was a popular figure amongst teens in the 60s, and the part Fix played in its creation is acknowledged (Google Books). There is a secondary source about Chouchou comic books (Michel Béra, "Chouchou", in Le Collectionneur de bandes dessinées #15,‎ January 1979, p. 16-17) but Fix is merely mentioned in it. Kokonino (talk) 11:10, 20 November 2017 (UTC)