George Rodrigue

George Rodrigue (March 13, 1944 – December 14, 2013) was an American artist originally from New Iberia, Louisiana, who in the late 1960s began painting Louisiana landscapes, followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings and southwest Louisiana 19th century and early 20th century genre scenes. His paintings often include moss-clad oak trees, common to an area of French Louisiana known as Acadiana. In the mid-1990s Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings, based on a Cajun legend called loup-garou, catapulted him to worldwide fame.

His funeral mass was open to the public, held St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, New Orleans.

Biography

Rodrigue attended the Brothers of the Christian Schools all-male high school called St. Peter's College, (now Catholic High School) which was located near St. Peter's Church, and near the banks of the Bayou Teche running through New Iberia. He studied art formally at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then named the University of Southwestern Louisiana) and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He returned to Louisiana in the late 1960s, and became well known for his interpretations of Cajun subjects and landscapes, inspired by his roots.

Michel Rodrigue

Michel Rodrigue, aka Rodrigue, is Franco-Belgian comics artist. He started his most successful series in 1999, Doggyguard, with Bob de Groot as scenarist. In 2002 Rodrigue also took over the Colonel Clifton series over from scenarist Bédu. Other comics that Rodrigue worked on include Edmond Rostand and Les Pieds Nickelés.

Rodrigue was born on April 1, 1961 in Lyon, France. He currently lives in Edinburgh.

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