Jean-Claude Forest
Known for: Writing
Born: September 11, 1930
Died: December 30, 1998
Jean-Claude Forest (11 September 1930 – 30 December 1998) was a French writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of the character Barbarella. Jean-Claude Forest was born in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, a Paris suburb and, graduated from the Paris School of Design in the early 1950s and immediately began working as an illustrator. While at the Paris School of Design Forest, he drew his first comic strip, Flèche Noire (The Black Arrow). After creating Le Vaisseau Hanté (The Ghost Ship), he illus…
