Roger Testu

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Early life and education

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	==Early life and education==		==Early life and education==
	Roger Testu was born in [[Bourges]], [[Cher (department)\|Cher]], on 12 July 1913.<ref name="Bedetheque">{{cite web \|title=Tetsu – Fiche Auteur \|url=https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-628-BD-Tetsu.html \|website=Bedetheque \|language=fr \|access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref> Before turning to art he worked as a press-distribution manager, soap-factory proprietor and art dealer, receiving no formal artistic training.<ref name="Mermet">{{cite web \|last=Mermet \|first=Daniel \|title=Connaissez-vous Tetsu ? \|url=https://la-bas.org/la-bas-magazine/entretiens/connaissez-vous-tetsu \|website=Là-bas si j’y suis \|date=22 May 2020 \|language=fr \|access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref>		Roger Testu was born in [[Bourges]], [[Cher (department)\|Cher]], on 12 July 1913.<ref name="Bedetheque">{{cite web \|title=Tetsu – Fiche Auteur \|url=https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-628-BD-Tetsu.html \|website=Bedetheque \|language=fr \|access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref> Before turning to art he worked as a press-distribution manager, soap-factory proprietor and art dealer, receiving no formal artistic training.<ref name="Mermet">{{cite web \|last=Mermet \|first=Daniel \|title=Connaissez-vous Tetsu ? \|url=https://la-bas.org/la-bas-magazine/entretiens/connaissez-vous-tetsu \|website=Là-bas si j’y suis \|date=22 May 2020 \|language=fr \|access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref>

			At almost forty, in 1951, he took up painting and published his first cartoon in the magazine ''Noir et Blanc''.<ref name="Forcadell">{{cite web \|last=Forcadell \|first=François \|title=Roger Testu dit Tetsu \|url=https://www.iconovox.com/blog/2010/02/26/roger-testu-dit-tetsu/ \|website=Fait d’images – Iconovox \|date=26 February 2010 \|language=fr \|access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref>

	==Career==		==Career==