Finyear Magazine #01 - mars 2011 - March 2011
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Guy Billout auteur des couvertures du supplément mensuel Finyear / Guy Billout, author of the covers for the monthly digital version of Finyear
Guy Billout bonjour, vous êtes l'auteur des couvertures du supplément mensuel digital FINYEAR®, parlez-nous de votre parcours...
Formé à l'école des arts appliqués de Beaune en qualité de graphiste en publicité, j'ai exercé ce métier à Paris pendant 6 ans.
Poussé par un vieux rêve d'Amérique, je débarque à New York en 1969, avec pour tout bagage, un récit autobiographique en 14 images.
Ces 14 dessins furent publiés dans New York Magazine (Milton Glaser, directeur artistique) peu de temps après mon arrivée.
Guy Billout, you are the author of the covers for the monthly digital version of FINYEAR. Tell us about your career...
I received my artistic education in the Ecole des Arts Apliqués de Beaune, in Burgundy, France.
After graduating, I came to Paris to work as a graphic designer in advertising agencies (Publicis, and Thibault Lintas), from 1962 until 1968.
Inspired by an old dream of America, I arrived in New York in 1969, with an improvised portfolio of 14 images, illustrating my young life as an artist.
Shortly after my arrival, Milton Glaser who was the Art Director of New York magazine, bought the entire series for publication.
Quelles sont vos principales références (magazines, ouvrages, etc...) ?
A partir de là, mes travaux ont parus dans tous les principaux magazines américains, dans des Annual Reports pour l'industrie et j'ai écrit et illustré 9 livres pour enfants.
Parmi mes plus notables commandes: une collaboration de 24 ans avec le magazine The Atlantic Monthly pour une pleine page en couleurs, tous les deux mois, avec totale liberté éditoriale et à la suite de la tragédie du 11 septembre 2001, avec The New Yorker, pour illustrer les articles du journaliste Seymour Hersh, sur les nouvelles guerres américaines.
What are your main achievements in magazines, and other publications ?
Very quickly I received commissions from all the major magazines based in New York, and later did numerous annual reports, and some advertising. I wrote and illustrated 9 children's books: 5 of them were selected by the New York Times for their list of the 10 best illustrated children's books in 1973,1979, 1981, 1982, and 2007.
Among my most notable commissions, during 24 years, every other month, I had a regular feature, in The Atlantic Magazine, in which I was granted complete editorial freedom for a full page image, in full color and during the decade following the tragedy of September 11, 2001, The New Yorker asked me to illustrate the articles of Seymour Hersh, about the new American wars.
Quelles sont vos sources d'inspiration ?
Il y a des influences sur lesquelles je peux mettre des noms (Savignac, André François, Ronald Searle, Hergé, Folon,) et celles mystérieuses qui émanent de toutes les formes de l'art.
Mes dessins préférés ont trait à des catastrophes, tempérées par l'humour.
Where do you trace your sources of inspiration ?
I can name a few artists who, very early on, were instrumental in my artistic development :
- Raymond Savignac, and André François for the intelligence and humor of their posters,
- Ronald Searle as a genial cartoonist,
- Hergé creator of the comic strip character "Tintin",
- and Folon for his images of the everyday man, alone in an overwhelming modern environment.
Perhaps more importantly, there are the many influences that emanate from all the different forms of art.
My main source of inspiration has to do with impending catastrophes mitigated by a touch of humor.
Interview by Laurent Leloup - Finyear
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