French Animator Bruno Bianchi (“Inspector Gadget”) Passes Away

Animationmagazine.net is reporting that prominent French television animator Bruno Bianchi passed away this morning. Bianchi was a co-creator of the popular Inspector Gadget series in the early 1980s, and worked on a number of animation shows as a writer, director and artist. Services for Mr. Bianchi will be held on Tuesday (Dec. 6) at Le Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.