REGINO BERNAD

Article Page 1 Article Page 2 Article Page 3 Article Page 4 Article Page 5 Bibliography Cover Gallery 1 Cover Gallery 2 Cover Gallery 3 Cover Gallery 4 Cover Gallery 5 Cover Gallery 6 Cover Gallery 7 German covers by Regino Bernad Le Saint Detective Magazine 1 Le Saint Detective Magazine 2 Le Saint Detective Magazine 3 Le Saint Detective Magazine 4 About Nero Wolfe & The Toff About artist Regino Bernad The Saint on French Radio French-English Text Comparison De Saint (The Dutch Saint) © 2001 Jean-Marc Lofficier. This article first appeared in a slightly different form in the Summer '94 issue of The Epistle. Thanks to Ian Dickerson for Research Assist. Thanks to Dan Bodenheimer, Marcel Bernadac, and Patrick Verdant for additional cover scans. Thanks to Alain Beyrand for the Cehri-Bibi scan on this page.

Born in Zaragosa (Spain) in 1902, Regino Bernad moved to France in 1924 and eventually became a French citizen in 1957. He first worked as an advertising artist, then in 1931 began contributing cartoons and illustrations to daily papers such as Le Rire, Frou-Frou, etc. In 1951, Bernad drew the daily comic strip Balaoo for the daily newspaper "France-Soir". Balaoo was an adaptation of a novel by famous writer Gaston Leroux (Phantom of the Opera) about a murderous ape-man. For 15 years, also for "France-Soir", Bernad drew the Cheri-Bibi daily strip (above), also based on a series of novels by Leroux, featuring the adventures of the eponymous convict. The Cheri-Bibi strip was written by Leroux's own son, G.-A. Leroux. It was very successful and, in its totality, comprised 4462 strips. Bernad passed away in 1972.