Philippe Fix (born 1 May 1937) is a French illustrator and author of children's books. He studied Decorative Arts in Strasbourg at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs and Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Born in Grendelbruch, Département du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, Fix created the comic character Chouchou for the magazine Salut les copains in 1963. [1] [2] [3] The magazine Chouchou was founded specifically for the character in 1964, [4] and in the same year it appeared as a "singer" on two CDs with the voice of Jean-Jacques Debout at higher speed, including one song "La Mascotte des copains" with Fix's lyrics. [5] [6] [7] In 1965 it appeared in the magazine Pilote . [8] The book Chouchou au Far West was published in 1966. [9]
Books with Fix' illustrations have appeared in French, German, English, Italian, Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Welsh, Swedish, Norwegian (bokmål), Spanish, Afrikaans, Japanese, Lithuanian, Portuguese, and Hebrew.
Title | Year | ISBN |
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Chouchou au Far West | 1966 | |
Le Merveilleux Chef-d'oeuvre de Séraphin (English title: The House That Beebo Built) | 1967 | 978-2842301491 |
Séraphin contre Séraphin (English title: Beebo and the Fizzimen) | 1968 | |
Défense de lire Séraphin (English title: Beebo & Ben and the Funny Machine) | 1968 | |
The kangaroo with a hole in her pocket | 1968 | |
Alexander and the Magic Mouse | 1969 | 9780828150064 |
L'éléphant rose à point d'or (English title: Arabella, the pink and gold spotted elephant) | 1970 | |
The Book of Giant Stories | 1972 | 978-1-56397-976-7 |
Mumps und Tilli reisen mit der Zeitmaschine (English title: Tim and Tilly and the Time Machine) | 1977 | 3-257-00587-3 |
Popcorn the Hipporhino | 1977 | 9780224013031 |
Mumps und Tilli kehren zurück | 1978 | 9783257006070 |
Le livre de Paris - 2/Chroniques Parisiennes | 1990 | 9782070395590 |
L'atelier du Père Noël | 1992 | 9782070567737 |
Weihnachtszeit, schönste Zeit | 1996 | 978-3473333653 |
Contes populaires du Maroc (English title: Moroccan Myths & Legends) | 2003 | 978-2842301507 |
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