Berthet Philippe/Pin-up. Original endpaper of the T2 album illustrating GI's including "Joe" and Dottie in bed with a WAC, from the comic "Poison Ivy". Nice quality of execution in graphite partially inked. Signed around 1994. Rare. TBE+. 33 X 43 cm Philippe Berthet was born in Thorigny-sur-Marne on September 22, 1956. After the high school, he follows during three years the courses of Comics of the institute Saint-Luc, in Brussels. He made his first steps in the 9th Art with short stories published in the collective Le 9e Rêve in 1978 and 1979. He then collaborates to several fanzines before joining Spirou, where he creates Couleur Café in 1980, with Antoine Andrieu at the script. In parallel, he also works for Circus, launching the series Le Marchand d'idées with Antonio Cossu, and signing complete stories in 1987 under the title Rêve de chien. Able to be a complete author (Halona in the collection Aire Libre in 1993), he usually associates with scriptwriters: Rivière and Bocquet (Le Privé d'Hollywood), Tome (Sur la Route de Selma), Yann (Pin-Up, Yoni and Poison Ivy), Duval (Nico), Hautière (Perico), or Zidrou (Le Crime qui est le tien). He also signed a volume of the XIII Mystery series (Irina), written by Corbeyran.