Fantasio

1, rue de Choiseul, Paris, France

This bi-weekly magazine, which was published in Paris from 1906 to 1935, was edited by Felix Juven, who also edited Le Rire Rouge. The cover of Fantasio was always designed by Auguste Roubille and usually featured a corpulent man and a young woman known as a grisette. The example of a cover to the left represents the entry of the USA into the First World War in April 1917.

The first drawing by Blampied in this title had appeared initially in a British magazine called The Sketch on 9th July 1913 entitled Sand girls, so was probably sold to Fantasio. Although they may have asked for more work by Blampied, as the second and third drawings in the magazine had also first appeared in The Sketch, all subsequent illustrations by Blampied in Fantasio have only been found in that title, so perhaps they were commissioned directly from him thereafter. They were perhaps attracted by his name as much as by his drawings.

Blampied issues: 12

Published Blampied: 1916 (4), 1917 (6), 1918 (1), 1919 (1)

Published: bimonthly, on 1st and 15th

Price: 50 centimes; 60c from 1/11/17; 75c from 1/1/19

Pages: 32, including covers

Dimensions: 297 x 217 mm

Credit: Félix Juven, Éditeur

Printer: Kapp, Paris

Cover design by A Roubille.

Twelve drawings by Blampied appeared in Fantasio between July 1916 (volume 10) and June 1919 (volume 13). Each volume of this magazine (Année) and its page numbers ran from 1st July to 15th June in the following year. No earlier or later volumes have been searched, so there may be more illustrations by Blampied, but I suspect not, because after the war he was extremely busy working for publishers in London.

The drawing by Blampied in issue 234 of 15th October 1916 is notable for the two women wearing rabbit costumes which preceded the Playboy bunny by about 40 years. The drawing in issue 251 of 1st July 1917 had been shown at an exhibition in Paris in May and June 1917 called La Guerre et les Humoristes, which is described in the entry on Le Rire Rouge.

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— 1916 —

Année 11, No. 228, 15 Juillet 1916. Full page drawing in red on page 52, signed Blampied. Also reproduced in The Sketch, vol. 83, no. 1067, 9th July 1913, page 1.

Année 11, No. 232, 15 Septembre 1916. Full page drawing in two colours on page 146, signed Blampied. Also reproduced in The Sketch, vol. 94, no. 1215, 10th May 1916, page 8.

Année 11, No. 233, 1 Octobre 1916. Full page drawing in one colour on page 191, signed Blampied. Also reproduced in The Sketch, vol. 86, no. 1108, 22nd April 1914, page 10.

Année 11, No. 234, 15 Octobre 1916. Full page drawing in one colour on page 203, signed Blampied. (A second copy of this issue is labelled Année 12)

— 1917 —

Année 11, No. 242, 15 Février 1917. Full page drawing in one colour on page 427, signed Blampied.

Année 11, No. 244, 15 Mars 1917. Full page drawing in one colour on page 482, signed Blampied.

Année 11, No. 247, 1 Mai 1917. Full page drawing in one colour on page 565, signed Blampied.

Année 11, No. 248, 15 Mai 1917. Full page drawing in one colour on page 601, signed Blampied.

Année 11, No. 249, 1 Juin 1917. Full page drawing in one colour on page 637, signed Blampied.

Année 12, No. 251, 1 Juillet 1917. Full page drawing in one colour on page 20, signed Blampied.

— 1918 —

Année 13, No. 274, 1 Juillet 1918. Full page drawing in one colour on page 566, signed Blampied.

— 1919 —

Année 13, No. 292, 1 Mars 1919. Full page drawing in one colour on page 411, signed Blampied.