Jonathan 7: Kate
1980; album 1981

Readers (and Cosey) in love
In the seventh Jonathan album, Cosey
introduces the perhaps most popular character of all his stories: Kate. Every interview I
read has this same question: is Kate coming back in the next Jonathan album?
A lot of readers seem to have fallen in
love with Cosey's most popular character: Kate. When the album appeared, it had immediate
success.
Cosey: 'The album was published in 1982
and it was relatively rare. Or you had a hyper sexy girl or else: la Castafiore. There
were no female characters you could fall in love with...'
Cosey seems to fall in love with comics
characters himself too: he mentions Pandora and Changaļ Li, in the Corto Maltese series
of Hugo Pratt, and almost all (!) female characters of Jean-Claude Denis. Cosey: 'They are
beautiful without being perfect. I fall in love every time he [Jean-Claude Denis] draws a
woman.'
Kate
A little bit more about Kate. Cosey:
'Kate has appeared spontaneously. I was inspired by Mimsy Farmer, especially her role in
'More'. Her physics incarnated very well the character I wanted to tell about.'

Recently, I found this picture of Mimsy
Farmer, probably taken in 2005. Did Mimsy Farmer ever look more like Kate?

Journal Tintin
A cover for the journal Tintin.

I love English
Three covers for the magazine 'I love
English'.

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