For more than forty years, their bickering and their nonsense has delighted millions of children and parents.
Born in 1977 in the monthly magazine
J'aime lire
sous
la
pinceau by Bernadette Després, from a screenplay by Jacqueline Cohen and later Evelyne Reberg, the
Tom-Tom et Nana series
has become a publishing phenomenon.
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Tom-Tom and Nana
, the kings of stupidity for forty years celebrated in Angoulême
After being honored at the Angoulême Festival in 2019, which devoted a major exhibition to her, the designer was elevated, at age 79, to the rank of knight in the national order of the Legion of Honor, for her " 56 years of service ”can be read on the decree of December 31, 2020 on promotion and appointment to the national order of the Legion of Honor.
An event hailed by its publisher Bayard jeunesse.
The
Tom-Tom et Nana series
features the daily life of the Dubouchon family in their restaurant “À la bonne fourchette”.
They have three children: Marilou, the eldest, Tom-Tom the youngest and Nana the youngest.
The stories take place in a rather classic everyday universe with children going to school, siblings bickering, playing in the streets with their friends and working parents.
An environment universal enough for many children to find their way around.
The restaurant acts as a theater stage allowing the episodic presence of colorful secondary characters, between Gino the waiter, the customers Monsieur Henri and Madame Poipoi and the whimsical Aunt Roberte.
In this daily life which slips regularly, we handle a disjointed humor that can sometimes reach absurd.
A whole tasty world relayed by the round and deceptively naive line of Bernadette Desprès who has helped to develop a reassuring and recognizable visual universe.
The numbers are amazing.
Tom-Tom and Nana
, there are more than 3000 boards published in the form of episodes in the monthly
J'aime Lire
, 34 albums grouping their stories, more than 16 million copies sold over the last twenty years and nearly 300,000 copies sold , again in 2017, when their adventures ended more than eight years ago.
