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18 unusual facts about Belgian comics


André Geerts

André Geerts (18 December 1955 – 27 July 2010) was a Belgian comics creator best known for his series Jojo.

Asterix and the Big Fight

A billboard outside of this tent has a picture of the Marsupilami, a famous Belgian comics character.

Barney Wilen

In 1987, French comic book artist Jacques de Loustal and author Philippe Paringaux paid homage to Wilen in their "bande dessinée" Barney et la note bleue ("Barney and the blue note").

Génial Olivier

Génial Olivier (Brilliant Olivier) is a humorous Belgian comic series about a child prodigy.

George Van Raemdonck

George Van Raemdonck (28 August 1888 - 28 January 1966) was a Belgian comics artist and painter, and is generally considered to be the first Flemish comics author.

Georges Pichard

Georges Pichard (January 17, 1920 – June 7, 2003) was a French comics artist, known for numerous BD Franco-Belgian comics magazine covers, serial publications and albums, stereotypically featuring partially exposed voluptuous women.

Henri Gillain

Henri Gillain (1913 - 10 August 1999) was a Belgian teacher and comics enthusiast who on several occasions wrote scripts for Franco-Belgian comics publications in the segment known as Bande Dessinée.

Although committed to his career as a math teacher, Henri Gillain followed with interest the early developments of comic strips in Belgium, and the artistic evolution of his brother, Jijé, eventually considered by many the second pioneer of Belgian comics after Hergé.

Jean-Jacques Sempé

His career started in France within the context of the Franco-Belgian comics industry.

La Patrouille des Castors

La Patrouille des Castors (The Beaver Patrol) is a series of Belgian comics drawn by MiTacq and written by Jean-Michel Charlier.

La Ribambelle

La Ribambelle (French for "flock" or "throng") is a Belgian comics series about a gang of kids living in the same neighbourhood.

Le Petit Noël

Noël, or Le Petit Noël, is the main character of an eponymous Belgian comics series, and a secondary character of Spirou et Fantasio.

The series Noël was created in 1957 by André Franquin and Jidéhem and published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou, while Franquin created the following work alone or together with Will.

Mitacq

Michel Tacq, or Mitacq, (10 June 1927 – 22 May 1994) is an author of Belgian comics.

Modeste et Pompon

Modeste and Pompon (Modeste et Pompon) is a Belgian comic series consisting mainly of humorous one-page short stories about a temperamental young man and his girlfriend.

Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber

Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber is a Belgian comic series, published between 1950 and 1995, created by Pom (Jozef Van Hove).

Steve Strong

Benoît Brisefer, Belgian comics character named in English publications as Steven Strong.

Willy Linthout

Willy Linthout (1 May 1953) is a Belgian comics author, best known for the Urbanus comics and his graphic novel Years of the Elephant.


Benoist Simmat

In 2010 he wrote a bande dessinée comic book illustrated by Philippe Bercovici, satirising the American wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr., titled Robert Parker: Les Sept Pêchés capiteux.

Denis Saverot

Saverot has also written the foreword to the bande dessinée comic book written by Simmat and illustrated by Philippe Bercovici, satirising the American wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr., titled Robert Parker: Les Sept Pêchés capiteux.

Derib

He draws in both a realistic style, and a cartoon style (similar to other Franco-Belgian cartoonists, such as Peyo, Albert Uderzo etc. inspired by the Marcinelle style), with a fondness for drawing majestic landscapes of the American West.

Edwin Drake

Drake Bell and Billy Smith appear in À l'ombre des derricks ("In the Shadow of the Oil Rigs"), an episode of the Franco-Belgian comics Western series Lucky Luke, published in 1960, written by René Goscinny (co-creator of Asterix) and drawn by Morris.

Haroun El Poussah

Haroun El Poussah (also called Haroun El Plassid in English or Harun-El-Pullah in Finnish) is the caliph in the Iznogoud comics series, created by René Goscinny and Jean Tabary.

La Roche-Guyon

The castle was used as a setting for the medieval segment of a famous Franco-Belgian graphic novel on time travel: Le Piège diabolique (The Diabolical Trap) of the Blake and Mortimer series by Edgar Pierre Jacobs.

Li-An

Li-An (born 1965 in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, Meurthe et Moselle, France) is a French comics author.

Male Call

Beginning in 1995, Dargaud published a comics series entitled Pin-Up, aimed mainly at adults, written by Yann Le Pennetier and drawn by Philippe Berthet.

Marcinelle

Home of the comics publisher Dupuis, as many popular creators of Franco-Belgian comics were based in Marcinelle the town has given name to the famous drawing style known as the Marcinelle school.

Maryse Dubuc

With Delaf, she created the comic series The Bellybuttons (French title: Les Nombrils) for Safarir, a Québécois humor magazine, and Spirou, the weekly Franco-Belgian comics magazine published by Dupuis that later picked up the comic series.

Titeuf

Titeuf is a Swiss comic series created by Zep which was adapted into an animated TV series, and appears in the dedicated Franco-Belgian comics magazine Tchô!.

Yves Chaland

During the 1980s, together with Luc Cornillon, Serge Clerc and Floc'h, he launched the Atomic style, a stylish remake of the Marcinelle School in Franco-Belgian comics.

Yves Sente

Sente started to work full-time in the comics industry in 1991 as editor at Le Lombard, one of the main publishers of Franco-Belgian comics.

Zep

Zep (born December 15, 1967) is the pseudonym of Philippe Chappuis, a comics creator from Switzerland, known for his series Titeuf, a popular character in French-speaking countries, and Tchô!, the associated Franco-Belgian comics magazine.

Zig et Puce

Zig et Puce is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Alain Saint-Ogan in 1925 that became popular and influential over a long period.