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Jean-Claude Mézières, an Uncommon card
Jean-Claude Mézières was a French comics artist and illustrator.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Jean-Claude Mézières quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jean-Claude Mézières card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
A lifelong interest in the Wild West led him to travel to the United States in ____ in search of adventure as a cowboy, an experience that would prove influential on his later work.
Answer
1960s. A lifelong interest in the Wild West led him to travel to the United States in 1965 in search of adventure as a cowboy, an experience that would prove influential on his later work. From the Jean-Claude Mézières article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Nikola Gruevski. Nikola Gruevski 27,000 · History of telecommunication 20,000 · Jean-Claude Mézières 15,000 · Mixtec culture 12,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Born in Paris and raised in nearby Saint-Mandé, he was introduced to drawing by his elder brother and influenced by comics artists such as Hergé, Andre Franquin and Morris and later by Jijé and Jack Davis.
- Educated at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, he worked upon graduation as an illustrator for books and magazines as well as in advertising.
- A lifelong interest in the Wild West led him to travel to the United States in 1965 in search of adventure as a cowboy, an experience that would prove influential on his later work.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jean-Claude Mézières article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Jean-Claude Mézières
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jean-Claude Mézières (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gilles Desjardins, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
