Auguste Jean Baptiste Roubille was a French painter, designer, poster artist, decorator and caricaturist. Roubille began as a press cartoonist for the Courrier français and the Temps nouveaux in 1897. He signed A. Roubille or with a monogram in the shape of a face formed by the letters A and R. At the same time, he exhibited his watercolors and gouaches at the Salon des indépendants, the Salon d’automne and the Salon des humoristes, for which he also designed the poster. He collaborated with most of the humorous newspapers: Le Rire, Le Sourire, Le Cri de Paris, Cocorico, La Baïonnette, Le Canard sauvage, etc. From 1906 to 1933, he designed all the covers for the satirical magazine Fantasio . For L’Assiette au beurre, he coordinated around ten thematic issues between 1901 and 1905. As a decorator, he notably painted the frieze of the Maison du Rire at the 1900 Universal Exhibition and a series of panels for the Café d’Harcourt (rue Champollion), as well as furniture. His posters include The Demaria Brothers Cameras, The Werner Motorcycle, Spratt’s Patent, High Life Tailor, The Bud, Scala in a Bomb!, At the Smart Carmen, The House of Laughter, etc. Finally, he illustrated books such as: Echo and Narcissus by Paul Feuillâtre, The French Spirit by Jules Renard with Ricardo Florès, Grandgoujon by René Benjamin, The Battle by Claude Farrère (Fayard, Le Livre de demain, 1925), The Chastelaine by Vergi (published by Léon Pichon in 1920), etc.