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b. 1947 -

Hervé Barulea , most famous under the artist name Baru , born July 29, 1947 in Thil , Lorraine , is a French series captain . He has been published in Swedish with the album Blues in the bröllan , for which he won the Swedish series prize for the 1990 best-selling album. In 2010 he was awarded the city ??of Angoulême's big prize .

Baru has often described its own growing environments, in declining industrial areas in northern Lorraine . Immigrants, travel, social divisions and working classes are recurring themes in the series. The often autobiographically inspired series are drawn both with attentiveness and a large amount of humor. During the 1990s, Baru signed at least one longer series for the Japanese series market, and in recent years he has performed series of several literary works.
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Hervé Barulea was born in 1947 in the north-eastern small town of Thil and grew up near the somewhat larger Villerupt . His father was Italian immigrant, his mother from Brittany , the growing environment of the industrial area in northern Lorraine near the Luxembourg border.

The young Barulea's parents were communists, and they were convinced that they could not live on series. Therefore, they convinced him to instead invest in a teacher career, and it was time to go to the age of 30 before the signature Baru began to appear in comic books. [ 1 ] Then he stepped down the teacher's job and, in recent years, has largely relied on his series-making. [ 2 ]

Barulea studied at the University of Nancy , first at the Faculty of Mathematics Physics, then at the Sports Faculty. After studying, he started working as a sports teacher at the Jacques-Callot School (High School) in Neuves-Maisons near Nancy. In recent years he has worked as a teacher at the Lorraine Academy of Fine Arts.
1980s

In 1982 he debuted with shorter, finished series in the Pilote newspaper. He then signed as Baru , a signature he had since. At the 1985 series in Angoulême he was awarded a prize for best series album, for the first part in his series Quéquette blues . [ 3 ]

The series is a free-standing autobiography of just over a day in the life of the young Hervé, who in the mid 1960s is interested in rock music and with mixed success tries to "get it" with the opposite sex. It describes an environment that once was characterized by steelworks and heavy industry; In 1981, when the Quéquette blues began to draw, they began to tear down the abandoned steelworks. Barus's goal was to tell stories of a working culture from a French region where it has always been backed by the rulers' culture. [ 2 ]
" The popular culture, that's my culture, and that's the one I'm trying to tell about a lot of humor. "
- Baru, January 1990 [ 2 ]

Four years later, the series was released in Swedish, when the Medusa publishers gathered the three parts of the Blues collection volume . The Swedish collection volume was awarded in 1990 with the Urhunden for last year's best-translated series album; It also served as a model for Albin Michels (Barus then French publisher) re-release of the 1991 series [ 2 ] .
Northern Lorraine is an old industrial region, where the factories today are either demolished or rebuilt.

Other early series of Baru were published in the 1980s in Epix series . It was usually the short, finished stories that Baru previously signed to Pilote and gathered in French in the volume La Piscine de Micheville ('The Micheville Swimming Pool ').

In the late 1980s, Baru Cours, Camarade ('Spring, mate') and Le Chemin de l'Amérique ('The Way to America', a collaboration with Jean-Marc Thévenet) signed for L'Écho des Savanes . [ 1 ]
1990s

In the early and mid-1990s, Baru was one of a number of French series captains (see also Édith , Michel Crespin and Edmond Baudoin ) who were commissioned to create original series for Japanese Kodanshas comic book Morning . Barus's contribution was the L'autoroute du soleil ('Motorway to the Sun'), [ 4 ] where he revised the former Cours, camarade ('Spring, mate') series, a series of roadmovie styles. L'autoroute du soleil was also attractively attracted to Frankyke's home and was awarded the 1996 best-selling series in Angoulême as the best album of the year. [ 1 ] [ 3 ]
The area around Thil and Villerupt in northern Lorraine. The red line on the right is the border with Luxembourg .
Baroque growing environments were an industrial area that looked its best days. The bars are the population of the birthplace of Thil.

Baru continued with several series drawn for Casterman. These were the Sur la route encore , the cynical apocalyptic drama Bonne Année and the series Les années Spoutnik (' Sputnik Years'), inspired by the Baroque 1950s.
2000s

Then L'enragé (The Forbidden) came, a longer series as of 2004-06 was published in Dupuis's collection Aire Libre . [ 1 ]

In 2008, Baru returned to Casterman with his series editing of Pierre Pelot's Pauvres zhéros ('Stackasch Zolles') and a further community description entitled Noir ('Black'). The publisher Les Rêveurs released 2010 his 300-page series novel Villerupt in 1966 . The same year, the publisher Futuropolis Fais péter les basse, Bruno, was printed ! , a story about immigration and crime. [ 1 ]

In 2006, Baru received Grand Boum at the Blois series festival for his overall production. In 2010, he received the corresponding award at the largest of the French series festivals - Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême ('Angoulême Great City of the City'). [ 3 ] [ 5 ] A documentary with the name Génération Baru (directed by Jean-Luc Muller ) was shown during the festival. [ 6 ]
Style and Themes

Baru generally draws (moving) half-autobiographical stories from everyday life in the French working class . [ 1 ] The stories are often located in Baro's own growing environments, with Italian immigrants in the industrial areas of northeastern France. Blues in the show describes the 1960s; The 150 pages describe more precisely the New Year's Eve 1965 and New Year's Day 1966. [ 2 ] Les Années Spoutnik returns for another ten years and presents immigrants' lives in Lorraine's industrial town in the 1950s.

L'autoroute du soleil was a recreation of the roadmovie principle from Cours, camarade , firmly crafted in a technique and format similar to manga .

Baru has been clearly influenced by Jean-Marc Reiser's raw, honest humor and the expressionist drawings of Argentinean José Muñoz . [ 1 ] The influence Muñoz has also made him appreciate and inspired by his teacher, the thoughtful adventure spokesman Hugo Pratt . This influx is reflected in the travel information L'autoroute du soleil . [ 7 ]

Another strong influenza is Mœbius , more specifically its short series of "White Nightmare" [ a ] . It is a suggestively told little thriller about the theme of xenophobia.