If you set the limit to 40 years it's a bit arbitrary, but you can still catch some of the late production of Asterix and Obelix and the Smurfs. For movies, Jean-Claude Van Damme is in, but he made most of his career in the US. I am not into electronic music, but I have at least heard the name Stromae.
40 years just misses (by 1 year) the last of Herge, the creator of TinTin, which is one of the more iconic comics of the last 100 years (Asterix and Obelix and the Smurfs are also in that group of course).
