After academic studies, he studied the craft of
stained glass for eight years under
Max Ingrand, along with his cousin Jean Gourmelin. He then started drawing
cartoons and became an illustrator for many French journals, including
Plexus,
Planet,
Hara-Kiri,
Lui,
Pariscope and
La Vie Electrique. He also began illustrating books. The first was
Asunrath, a work of fantasy, published by
Losfeld. He incorporated his interest in the fantastic into many of his early lithographs, which were published, sometimes exclusively, in many countries including Japan and Germany. He also participated in both group and solo exhibitions. In 1969, he met Jack Claude Nezat, and they became friends. Nezat wrote numerous articles devoted to his art and his work and organized two exhibitions in Germany in 1975 and 1976–1977 that met with great success. This relationship also allowed Serre to work with the magazine
Pardon. Serre, meanwhile, started drawing cartoons on such topics as medicine, sports, automobiles and
DIY, and his first book of cartoons,
Black Humor and Men in White, satirising medical professionals, was published in 1972 by
Editions Grésivaudan. The book won the Black Humor prize. A number of similar-themed books in the same vein were published by Glénat of
Grenoble. He also continued to work as an illustrator and worked in particular on books by
Francis Blanche and
Frederic Dard, author of the
San Antonio series.
Death Serre died of a
brain tumour at the age of 60 in
Caen,
Calvados. ==Bibliography==