Pierre Mouchot, best known under his pseudonym Chott, was head of one of the biggest French publishing houses of digest sized comic books.
He was also an artist and writer of comics, creating such characters as Fantax, the first French superhero, and Big Bill Le Casseur a masked cowboy hero.
Eventully however he switched to mainly writing, and then producing turning the writing and drawing of his comics to others.
Mouchot was also the source of a number of controversies, such as his habit from time to time of coping pages of such artists as Alex Raymond and Harold Foster and changing them to his characters, and the violent nature of most of his stories so that twice, first in 1950 and again 1961 having his production of comics stopped by the French government.
After the second stoppage of his publications he left comics and died five years later.
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