Der als Patrick Mallet 1941 in Marseille geborene Zeichner wurde im deutschsprachigen Raum vor allem durch seine Albumreihe »Die kleinen grünen Männchen« bekannt. Die außerirdischen Schwerenöter waren zwar bereits in den frühen 1970er Jahren in verschiedenen Magazinen aufgetaucht und hatten es zu Buchausgaben bei Fischer, Heyne und Stalling gebracht, doch erst die durch den Condor Verlag publizierte Albumreihe bescherte Ihnen in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren das ganz große Publikum. Pat Mallet starb am 30. Oktober 2012, und nun sollen seine Originale für einen guten Zweck zum Kauf angeboten werden.
Jean-Claude Mézières erinnert an einen alten Freund: Pat Mallet
Jean-Claude Mézières (»Valerian und Veronique«) hat uns gebeten, im Andenken an seinen alten Freund und Studienkollegen den folgenden Text zu veröffentlichen:
Pat Mallet, the artist of »Die kleinen grünen Männchen« died in Biarritz (France) last October at the age of 73. He was an Artschool friend back in the fifties of young Jean Giraud/Moebius (Blueberry) and me, all of us passionate with comic art.
Since the early age of 9 he had become totally deaf. It’s been difficult for him to communicate but his friends helped him and he accomplished a very long and successful career of drawer/writer for comics in Spirou, Pilote, and later with LUI (french sort of PLAYBOY magazine), where his Kleine Grüne Männchen were first published, he also produced lots of drawings for a Paris educational school for deaf children.
As a life long friend of Pat Mallet, I want to prepare, with the help of his family, an exhibit/sale of his original drawings. Thanks to my friend Bernard Mahé owner of the Paris Galerie 9e Art specialized in International Comics art where this event will take place in Spring this year.
Knowing that many books of the Kleinen Grünen Männchen have been published in Germany, I would like to let his german readers knowing about this event. For further details about the dates of the future exhibit, the originals and their sale , please inquire the Galerie 9e Art at their website or at
Thank you for the memory of Pat Mallet.
Jean-Claude Mézières
Illustrationen © Pat Mallet