Stéphane Mazurier’s scientific contributions

Roland Topor and the Hara-Kiri Gang Though Roland Topor worked with Hara-Kiri for only five years, between 1961 and 1966, it was for this newspaper that he produced the most drawings. It was there that he forged his style and began to gain a certain notoriety. Anxious to chart his own course and refusing to limit his work to the press illustration, he left Hara-Kiri but continued to frequent the same cultural networks as several of the monthly magazine’s cartoonists, notably Wolinski and Willem. He found himself reunited with the “Hara-Kiri gang” in publishing (at Pauvert or Losfeld), the press (L’Enragé, Le Fou parle, Charlie mensuel) and even television (Merci Bernard, Palace). A singular figure on the Hara-Kiri scene, Topor was both one of the most brilliant among them and a peripheral, marginal presence—the only one, perhaps, who refused to be taken under Cavanna’s wing.