Noureddine Hiahemzizou (Art)

Noureddine Hiahemzizou, born in 1937 in Algiers, is a designer, illustrator, cartoonist, model maker and poster designer, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts of Algiers. He started at the weekly “Algérie Actualité” in 1968 as a layout designer and illustrator and became known by publishing a humorous series under the title “Zach” (La Cigale) and the same year in the daily “El Moudjahid” with the character Si Fliou, based on an idea from journalist Abderrahmane Mekhlef, in a comic strip entitled "The Adventures of Si Fliou". In 1969, Algérie Actualités published a booklet, its adaptation of a short story by Ahmed Chenouf Boudi: "Commando En Mission" on the Algerian War, a comic strip on the theme of the war of national liberation. That same year, he invented the character of Si Fliou in the form of strips in the newspaper El Moudjahid. In the cinema he began as a production...Read More