René Petillon at the Salon du livre de Paris [fr], 2010After the government suggested an amnesty for tax evaders having sent their capital abroad, a businessman reacts: Repatriating my capital? And then what? My factories?Le Canard enchaîné, 4 August 2004.
René Pétillon (French:[petijɔ̃]; 12 December 1945, Lesneven – 30 September 2018)[1] was a French satirical and political cartoonist and comics artist. As a cartoonist he was most famous for his work in Canard Enchaîné. As a comics artist his best known and longest-running series was the humoristic comic strip Jack Palmer, about a goofy private detective.[2][3]
Pétillon joined Pilote magazine in 1972. From 1993, he published cartoons in the Canard Enchaîné and he signed them as Pétillon.[4]
In 2001, he published L'Enquête Corse ("The Corsican Enquiry"), dealing with the "independentist" groups in Corsica. The album was a popular and critical success, with 300,000 printed in French plus 30,000 in Corsican. A movie of the same name, starring Jean Reno, was based on the book and released in 2004.[7]
