Topor, Roland

Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, [ 1 ] who was known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish-Jewish origin. His parents were Jewish émigrés from Warsaw, Poland. [ 2 ] He spent the early years of his life in Savoy, where his family hid him from the Gestapo. [ 1 ]