Vitaliy Peskov
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Vitaly Viktorovich Peskov was a Russia
n cartoonist who also worked as an illustrator and an animation director.
In all, Peskov authored about 15,000 cartoons. His first cartoon was published in Smena in 1967, after which he was invited to the Literaturnaya Gazeta
. In the following years, he worked for a variety of other publications. However, Peskov's cartoons never had an official support by the Soviet authorities, and unlike with other well-known artists, no exhibition of Peskov's works had ever been organized during his life.
After Peskov's death in 2002, his apartment was looted and his wife Irina Korshikova with her son received numerous threats and emigrated to the United States soon after. One month after Peskov's death, an exhibition of three hundred cartoons was organized by Leonid Tishov in his private gallery in Moscow. The questions of how Tishkov got a hold of the stolen cartoons and where the remaining drawings and other property are was never answered.
His widow Irina, who emigrated to the United States with the copies of 3,000 of Peskov's drawings, later created a commemorative website and published his biography To Vitaly from Irina (Mir Collection NY, 2007, ISBN 1-893552-50-0; available at http://cartoonia.net/lit/albums/peskov.pdf).
All this time, the threats and harassment against the artist's family continued. And in Moscow arranged publications, exhibitions and published books 300 stolen paintings. They are attended by Russian artists and senior officials of the Moscow Government and the Ministry of Culture. The prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case, but corruption is enormous. Return home from America for a family was impossible. Viktor Korshikov (ru: Коршиков, Виктор Михайлович) beginning music critic and writer, author of musicological articles on the history of opera, committed suicide.
To date nobody had been arrested, although has been almost 10 years.
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n cartoonist who also worked as an illustrator and an animation director.
In all, Peskov authored about 15,000 cartoons. His first cartoon was published in Smena in 1967, after which he was invited to the Literaturnaya Gazeta
Literaturnaya Gazeta
Literaturnaya Gazeta is a weekly cultural and political newspaper published in Russia and Soviet Union.- Overview :...
. In the following years, he worked for a variety of other publications. However, Peskov's cartoons never had an official support by the Soviet authorities, and unlike with other well-known artists, no exhibition of Peskov's works had ever been organized during his life.
After Peskov's death in 2002, his apartment was looted and his wife Irina Korshikova with her son received numerous threats and emigrated to the United States soon after. One month after Peskov's death, an exhibition of three hundred cartoons was organized by Leonid Tishov in his private gallery in Moscow. The questions of how Tishkov got a hold of the stolen cartoons and where the remaining drawings and other property are was never answered.
His widow Irina, who emigrated to the United States with the copies of 3,000 of Peskov's drawings, later created a commemorative website and published his biography To Vitaly from Irina (Mir Collection NY, 2007, ISBN 1-893552-50-0; available at http://cartoonia.net/lit/albums/peskov.pdf).
All this time, the threats and harassment against the artist's family continued. And in Moscow arranged publications, exhibitions and published books 300 stolen paintings. They are attended by Russian artists and senior officials of the Moscow Government and the Ministry of Culture. The prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case, but corruption is enormous. Return home from America for a family was impossible. Viktor Korshikov (ru: Коршиков, Виктор Михайлович) beginning music critic and writer, author of musicological articles on the history of opera, committed suicide.
To date nobody had been arrested, although has been almost 10 years.
Filmography
Vitaliy Peskov is the author of several animated films (director & artist filmography):- Cowboys in town (ru: «Ковбои в городе» online) (1973)
- A Stadium topsy-turvy (ru: «Стадион шиворот-навыворот») (1976)
- To You — attacker class! (ru: «Тебе — атакующий класс!») (1977)
- an animated film-parody to film-comedy The Irony of Fate (1975)
- Dima hits the road (ru: «Дима отправляется в путь») (1978)
- a film-parody Pif-paf, oï-oï-oï! (ru: «Пиф-паф, ой-ой-ой!»), with Garri BardinGarri BardinGarri Bardin is a Russian animation director, screenwriter and producer and director. During Soviet times he was with Soyuzmultfilm, and in 1991 he founded his own studio, Stayer. In 2010, the studio finished making a feature-length animated film based on The Ugly Duckling, which Bardin directed...
(Пиф-паф, ой-ой-ой online) - the drawings comic in the film The dear boy (ru: «Дорогой мальчик»)