Édika

Édouard Karali, better known by the pen name of Édika, was a French comics artist who was renowned for his distinctively absurd style. A number of his comic strips have been translated into several European languages such as; English, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Danish, and Greek.

Life and career

Initially working for the advertising industry in Egypt, he moved to France where his works were published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazines Pilote, Charlie Mensuel, and Psikopat, the magazine of his brother Paul Carali. A major milestone in his career as a comics artist was his cooperation with Gotlib, becoming a main contributor to the comics magazine Fluide Glacial.
Édika died on 16 December 2025, one day before his 85th birthday.

Style

A typical Édika comics episode involves a plot structured in a complex and often inconsequential fashion, filled with verbose dialogues and a lot of meta-references. Most of those episodes do not have an ending.
Recurring characters are Bronski Proko and sometimes his family: wife Olga, kids Paganini and Georges, and a non-speaking cat with an otherwise human behaviour, named Clarke Gaybeul.