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Funny pictures it did not change either in the same journal, or with illustrations "sacred stories" which are no longer for children (with normal mentality). Although perhaps only once, when, as a witness fiasco (or elevation) of friends, created a series of "Bulldozer Exhibition eye of the beholder.

 Vitaly Kazimirovich Statsinsky - graphic artist. Born Oct. 6, 1928 in Kyzyl-Orda, the Kazakh SSR.
In 1941, aged 13 years was a member of an amateur group of teenagers, who procured arms and preparing for the defense of Moscow from the Germans. "Fits a freight train, he jumped from the soldiers:" Guys, wherever there something ... a piece would be bread ... "But instead gave arms. For a pack of tobacco you could get a box lemons. "He was arrested and stayed in Butyrskaya three months. There, at the request of criminals drew tattoos. It was his first artistic experiments. This was followed by the court and V. Statsinsky received two years probation (as the organizer of the gang).
After the war he entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute and graduated in 1953. In 1956 he began working in the new journal "Funny Pictures". "Even then I was absolutely convinced that children need to draw differently than adults. We must be sure to bunny five fingers, always a little white tail and so on."
 The problems at work: Every three months we were called to the Central Committee of Komsomol. Here is something brewing for the next scandal, and we decided to call with a Agnia Barto, but she said she was busy. Semenov said: "Vitali, the most reliable - it Mikhalkov. Call. Came. He began meeting this Pustynin of "Crocodile": Behold, the children's magazine of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, and what's going on - at number 15 dogs, 26 cats, all kinds of frogs, mice, and the pioneers almost there. And suddenly, Sergey, as always, stammering: "I think that the magazine is very good. And if there will be 26 good mice, rabbits and petrushek, this is better than 25 bad pionerchikov! "
 In the mid-60's left the magazine: "I got all of this ideology, and especially the endless calls to the authorities. I have already made this magazine what he wanted. His wife often said: "Vitali, choose - or you are an artist, or chief artist." I left the "fun" and began to paint for Detgiz "for" Goslit "," Sovpisa. "" I brought copies "Merry pictures" to 10 million. " Now-118000 pcs.
  A few years later he joined the senior artist in the "Gingerbread Man".
On the "Bulldozer Exhibition", which involved all friends: "I was invited, but I did not go. I was a spectator, watching these guys in jeans with a Komsomol badge zashvyrivali pictures on a truck - was shouting, cursing, in the course of someone climbing into the back, snatched my story ... my father taught me to be very careful. I've had enough Butyrki. If you guys asked for a picture or a lithograph, I gave, but to like this - "Long live the so-and Good-bye is" - to this I had never gone. "
  Nevertheless, refused to knock the KGB friends and acquaintances, for the opportunity to go abroad. For refusing to paid career, and all the rest, as a consequence. In 1978 he emigrated to France. Currently lives in Paris.
  George Costakis contributed to the acquisition of a house in Paris, across the street from Pere-Lachaise.
"Being a traditional classic illustrator sadly, this is a very difficult profession. You go to the text, but when something out of you vyhlestyvaetsya, it is not always appropriate, something does not work. There are moments when I can two or three months is absolutely nothing to do. "
 But it did eventually.
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