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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. He was also the brother of Joseph Gillain, famous by the pseudonym Jijé. Contributions 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. In the late 40s he turned contributor when he submitted a script to André Franquin, his brother's protégé, in the shape of a thick notebook which contained the ideas that would result in '' Spirou'' magazine serialised story, ''Il y a un sorcier à Champignac'', and serve as a platform for the entire series '' Spirou et Fantasio''. Upon publication in 1950, Henri Gillain took the pseudonym Jean Darc, a play on the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirou Et Fantasio
''Spirou & Fantasio'' (french: Spirou et Fantasio, wa, Spirou eyet Fantasio) is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comics. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European comics, European humorous adventure comics like ''The Adventures of Tintin'' and ''Asterix''. It has been written and drawn by a succession of artists. Spirou (comics), Spirou and Fantasio are the series' main characters, two adventurous journalists who run into fantastic adventures, aided by Spirou's pet squirrel Spip (comics character), Spip and their inventor friend the Champignac, Count of Champignac. History Origins of ''Spirou'' The comic strip was originally created by Robert Velter, Rob-Vel for the launch of ' (''Spirou (magazine), Spirou'' magazine) on April 21, 1938, published by Dupuis, Éditions Dupuis. The main character was originally an elevator (lift) operator (in French language, French: ) for the Moustique Hotel (in reference to the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Of Arc
Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Stating that she was acting under divine guidance, she became a military leader who transcended gender roles and gained recognition as a savior of France. Joan was born to a propertied peasant family at Domrémy in northeast France. In 1428, she requested to be taken to Charles, later testifying that she was guided by visions from the archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine to help him save France from English domination. Convinced of her devotion and purity, Charles sent Joan, who was about seventeen years old, to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief army. She arrived at the city in April 1429, wielding her banner and bringing hope to the demoralized Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 Births
Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power. * January – Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research. Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito alongside Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station. * February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy (comics)
Sandy may refer to: People and fictional characters * Sandy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Sandy (surname), a list of people * Sandy (singer), Brazilian singer and actress Sandy Leah Lima (born 1983) *(Sandy) Alex G, a former stage name of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alexander Giannascoli (born 1993) *Sandy (Egyptian singer) (born 1986), Arabic singer * Sandy Mitchell, pen name of British writer Alex Stewart Places * Sandy, Bedfordshire, England, a market town and civil parish ** Sandy railway station * Sandy, Carmarthenshire, Wales * Sandy, Florida, an unincorporated area in Manatee County * Sandy, Oregon, a city * Sandy, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place * Sandy, Utah, a city * Sandy, Kanawha County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Sandy, Monongalia County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Sandy, Taylor County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Sandy Bay (Newfoundlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambil
Lambil (born 14 May 1936) is a Belgian comic-book artist, best known for the series '' Les Tuniques Bleues'', which has been published in English as "The Blue Tunics" and "The Bluecoats". Biography Willy Lambillotte was born in Tamines, Belgium in 1936.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Lambil". In België gestript, pp. 135–136. Tielt: Lannoo. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and first presented his drawings at the publisher Dupuis, known for '' Spirou'' magazine, when he was 16. He was accepted as a letterer, and got to know the major artists of the magazine of the time like Jijé and André Franquin. In 1959, he published his first comic, ''Sandy'', about an Australian teenager and his kangaroo Hoppy. The story was written by Henri Gillain, the brother of Jijé, and was the start of more than 20 stories in the same series, which only had a moderate success and did not get published in albums until much later. Lambil even parodied his own series in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondin Et Cirage
Blondin et Cirage (''Blondin and Cirage'', literally ''Blondy'' and ''Shoe polish'') is a Belgian humoristic adventure comic strip by Jijé created in 1939 for the Catholic children's magazine ''Petits Belges''. The comic was also published in its Flemish counterpart ''Zonneland'', initially under the name ''Wietje en Krol'', later as ''Blondie en Blinkie''. It stars two boys, Blondin – who is white – and Cirage – who is black. Concept Blondin is a white, blond-haired boy who functions as the straight man of the comic. Cirage is a black boy who functions as his comedic sidekick, yet is equally clever; despite Cirage's role of providing comic relief, he is the one who solves the problems the duo encounters, and so can be considered the true hero of the series. They go on several adventures which bring them to the United States, Africa and Mexico. History ''Blondin et Cirage'' made their debut in the 29th issue of ''Petits Belges'' in 1939. They had three adventures during W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tif Et Tondu
Tag Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers. TIFF is widely supported by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition, image manipulation, desktop publishing, and page-layout applications. The format was created by the Aldus Corporation for use in desktop publishing. It published the latest version 6.0 in 1992, subsequently updated with an Adobe Systems copyright after the latter acquired Aldus in 1994. Several Aldus or Adobe technical notes have been published with minor extensions to the format, and several specifications have been based on TIFF 6.0, including TIFF/EP (ISO 12234-2), TIFF/IT (ISO 12639), TIFF-F (RFC 2306) and TIFF-FX (RFC 3949). History TIFF was created as an attempt to get desktop scanner vendors of the mid-1980s to agree on a common scanned image file format, in place of a multitude of proprietary for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will (comics)
Willy Maltaite (; 30 October 1927 – 18 February 2000), better known by the pseudonym Will (), was a Belgian comics creator and comics artist in the Franco-Belgian tradition. In the genre known in Francophone countries as bande dessinée, Will is one of the young cartoonists trained by Jijé, who made them live and work with him in his studio in Waterloo. He is considered one of la Bande des Quatre (''the Gang of 4,'' which also included André Franquin, Morris, and Jijé himself), and a founding member of the Marcinelle school. Work Over a long association with the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ' ('' Spirou'' magazine) starting in 1947, Will created, illustrated and wrote several series, including ''Tif et Tondu'' (as main artist, taking over from creator Fernand Dineur), and '' Isabelle''. He wrote scripts for, among others, ''Spirou et Fantasio'' and ''Benoît Brisefer''. During the period of 1958–60, Will also acted as artistic director of ''Spirous rival publication ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Y A Un Sorcier à Champignac
''Il y a un sorcier à Champignac'', by Franquin, is the second album of the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' series, and the first to tell a long intricate story in what would become the ''Spirou'' tradition, in contrast to the previous short format stories. After serial publication in '' Spirou'' magazine, it was released as a complete hardcover album in 1951. This work introduces several key characters in the series, and the village of Champignac-en-Cambrousse (a name derived from the French word for mushrooms, and 'cambrousse' meaning rural backwater). Story In ''There is a Sorcerer in Champignac'', Spirou and Fantasio go on a bicycle camping trip to the country and end up near the village of Champignac-en-Cambrousse. They meet its pompous mayor and rustic inhabitants, and an aloof local landowner, the Count of Champignac. Strange phenomena are affecting farm and wild animals, and the frightened villagers blame a gypsy who is passing through. Spirou and Fantasio, however, discove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of . Belgium is part of an area known as the Low Countries, historically a somewhat larger region than the Benelux group of states, as it also included parts of northern France. The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Belgium is a sovereign state and a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Its institutional organization is complex and is structured on both regional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirou (magazine)
''Spirou'' (french: Le Journal de Spirou) is a weekly Franco-Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company since April 21, 1938. It's an anthology magazine with new features appearing regularly, containing a mix of short humor strips and serialized features, of which the most popular series would be collected as albums by Dupuis afterwards. History Creation With the success of the weekly magazine ''Le Journal de Mickey'' in France, and the popularity of the weekly ''Adventures of Tintin'' in ''Le Petit Vingtième'', many new comic magazines or youth magazines with comics appeared in France and Belgium in the second half of the 1930s. In 1936, the experienced publisher Jean Dupuis put his sons Paul and the 19-year-old Charles in charge of a new magazine aimed at the juvenile market. First appearing 21 April 1938, it was a large format magazine, available only in French and only in Wallonia. It was an eight-page weekly comics magazine composed of a mixture of short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Franquin
André Franquin (; 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best-known creations are '' Gaston'' and ''Marsupilami''. He also produced the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' comic strip from 1946 to 1968, a period seen by many as the series' golden age. Biography Franquin's beginnings Franquin was born in Etterbeek in 1924.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "André Franquin". In België gestript, pp. 113-115. Tielt: Lannoo. Although he started drawing at an early age, Franquin got his first actual drawing lessons at '' École Saint-Luc'' in 1943. A year later however, the school was forced to close down because of the war and Franquin was then hired by Compagnie belge d'actualités (CBA), a short-lived animation studio in Brussels. It is there he met some of his future colleagues: Maurice de Bevere (Morris, creator of ''Lucky Luke''), Pierre Culliford (Peyo, creator of the ''Smurfs''), and Eddy Paape. Three of them (minus Peyo) were hired by Dupuis in 1945, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
