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About Pierre Bellocq
- Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".
- As a small boy, his family moved to Maisons-Laffitte where his father worked at the local race track.
- There, at a young age Pierre Bellocq used his natural talent to begin creating caricatures of horses and horse people.
- At age 19, the French racing journal France Courses gave him national exposure when they published one of his cartoons of a jockey.
- Bellocq signed the drawing as "Peb", a signature which would become his lifelong moniker.
- Within a few years Peb was widely known and an emerging artist who also gained recognition for his caricatures on sports advertising posters.
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