National Lampoon

Claire Bretécher, raised on comics, started drawing at age five. But it wasn't until she hit twenty seven and realized she had three options - illness, robbery, or art - that she then took her obvious talents seriously. Claire is the product of what she herself calls a "bourgeois family." Born in Nantes thirty seven years ago, she was first educated in a convent. After a year of studying Beaux Arts and trying to be an art teacher, she arrived in Paris. Today, Claire Bretécher works and lives with her husband, a photographer, in a Montmartre atelier. Claire Bretécher has been called irreverent, pessimistic, and political. Actually, she's a feminist with a marvelous sense of humor who doesn't vote, but who's becoming known as an "international pop star." National Lampoon presents Claire Bretécher, a social satirist and a refreshingly human cartoonist who "longs for a bigger apartment and smaller hips." She's a woman who finds it "interesting to describe one's generation when it is still young, making waves." National Lampoon Presents Claire Bretécher reveals the many faces of a welcome and exciting new personality: the engaging humorist who lampoons the many frustrations of her readers ... the satirist who teases, exposes, and explodes our vanities (those of patronizing chauvinists and pseudointellectual, insecure, neurotic men as well as silly-earnest feminists and their downtrodden counterparts, the housewives and unfulfilled career girls) ... and the woman and artist, Claire Bretécher, who admits "they're all me."