Biography

André Jobin was born on October 25, 1927 in Delémont, Switzerland. He was a writer and actor, known for Yakari, a Spectacular Journey (2020), Yakari (1983) and Yakari (2005). He died on October 8, 2024 in Nimes, France.

He is probably best known for his western children's comics series Yakari, for which he wrote the scripts from 1973 until 2016.

André Jobin, known as Job, was a Swiss francophone comics creator.

In 2016 he wrote his last story about Yakari after which Joris Chamblain continued the work with Derib.

Jobin became a journalist and founded Le Crapaud à lunettes in 1964, a magazine for children.

In 1991, he was awarded the Masters of Honor at the Sierre Comics Festival for his career.