Nikita Mandryka (20 October 1940 – 13 June 2021) was a French cartoonist. He started drawing in the Vaillant magazine, before moving to Pilote in 1967, and then created L'Écho des savanes along with Claire Bretécher and Marcel Gotlib in 1972. He left this magazine in 1979, going back to Pilote as editorial director. His major and better known works are the Concombre masqué (The Masked Cucumber) stories. He won the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême in 1994. Awards and honors 1988: Angoulême International Comics Festival Award for Best Promotional Comic 1994: Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême 2005: Angoulême International Comics Festival Award for Inheritance Asteroid 157747 Mandryka is named after Nikita Mandryka. Works Les aventures potagères du Concombre masqué (from 1975 to 2006). Clopinettes (drawing), with Gotlib (story), Dargaud, 1974. Mandryka, Éditions du Fromage, 1976. Le retour du refoulé, Éditions du Fromage, 1977, coll. « L'Écho des Savanes ». Les Minuscules, Éditions du Fromage : Entre chien et chat, 1979. Lob de la Jungle (drawing), with Jacques Lob (story), Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1980. Alice (story), with Riverstone (drawing), Dargaud, 1985. Le type au Reuri, Albin Michel, 1987. La Horde - Mandryka chez Freud, Z'éditions, 1994. Les animaux sont-ils des bêtes ? (drawing), with Fritax (story), P&T Production, 1995. Y'a plus de limites !, Albin Michel, 1996. Les Gardiens du Maser (story), with Massimiliano Frezzato (story and drawing), Éditions USA : 4. La Tour de Fer, 2000. 5. Le Bout du Monde, 2003. 6. Le Village Perdu, 2005. References External links Mandryka biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia Le Concombre masqué official site 1940 births 2021 deaths People from Bizerte French cartoonists French comics artists French people of Russian descent Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême winners