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Maurice Rosy
Maurice Rosy (17 November 1927 – 23 February 2013), was a Belgian comics writer who also worked as artistic director of '' Spirou'' magazine during its golden period. Biography Rosy was born in Fontaine-l'Évêque. He was employed by Charles Dupuis in 1954 as "giver of ideas" at the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou''. Two years later he assumed the position of artistic director, which he remained until 1971. Along with Yvan Delporte, he is credited with responsibility of the magazine's success during the 1950s and 1960s. In the early 1950s he wrote scenarios for André Franquin's series ''Spirou et Fantasio'', and Jijé's '' Jerry Spring'', before he took over the writing of '' Tif et Tondu'' from Luc Bermar, collaborating with Will over a period of thirteen years. As ''Spirou'' took to publishing the mini–récit (mini story booklets) Rosy had a hand in the creation of new series that began in this format, and in 1959 Rosy worked with Jean Roba to create the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Bermar
Luc or LUC may refer to: Places * Luc, Hautes-Pyrénées, France, a commune * Luc, Lozère, France, a commune * Le Luc, France, a commune * Luč, Baranja, Croatia, a settlement People and fictional characters * Luc (given name) * Luc (surname) Academia * Leiden University College The Hague, a liberal arts & sciences honours college in the Netherlands * Limburgs Universitair Centrum, now University of Hasselt, Belgium * Loyola University Chicago Other uses * Land-use change * LUC, cryptosystem based on Lucas sequences See also * Château de Luc, a French castle-ruin in the town of Luc in the Lozère ''département'' * Luc-en-Diois, France, a commune * Luc-la-Primaube, France, a commune * Luc-sur-Mer, France, a commune * Saint-Luc (other) * Luk (other) Luk or LUK may refer to: Surname Luk or Loke is the Cantonese romanization of several (but not all) Chinese surnames that are romanized as Lu in Mandarin. It may refer to: *Lu (surname 陆) *Lu (surname 禄) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album '' 63/19'' by Kool A.D. * '' Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dupuis
Éditions Dupuis S.A. () is a Belgian publisher of comic albums and magazines. Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic albums and magazines. It is originally a French language publisher, but publishes many editions both in French and Dutch. Other language editions are mostly licensed to other publishers. Dupuis was for a long time a family business but was sold in the early 1980s and has since changed ownership a few times. Origin The growth of Dupuis towards becoming the leading comic book editor of Belgium started in 1938, when Dupuis added to its portfolio a men's magazine (''Le moustique'' he mosquitoin French, '' Humoradio'' in Dutch), a women's magazine (''Bonnes Soirées'' ood eveningsin French, ''De Haardvriend'' he hearth's friendin Dutch) and the children's comics magazine '' Spirou''. The latter was originally only in French, and contained a mixture of American comics (e.g. ''Superman'', ''Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Pirates Du Silence
''Les pirates du silence'', written and drawn by Franquin, is the tenth album of the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' series. The title story, and another, ''La Quick Super'', were serialised in '' Spirou'' magazine before both were published in one hardcover album in 1958. Story In ''The Pirates of Silence'', Fantasio gets an assignment from ''Le Moustique'' to write a story about Incognito City, a highly modernized city inhabited by wealthy celebrities and where security is tight and photography strictly forbidden. Fantasio gets around this by hiding miniature cameras in everyday items such as his pipe. But before he and Spirou leave, the Marsupilami surprisingly appears at their home, having somehow traveled alone from the Count's mansion in Champignac. Unable to reach the Count by phone, they drive to Incognito City and have an unpleasant traffic encounter with Juan Corto Dos Orejas, leaving them with a bad impression and a small object found on the ground. Further encounters with thug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Dictateur Et Le Champignon
''Le dictateur et le champignon'', written and drawn by Franquin, is the seventh album of the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' series. After serial publication in '' Spirou'' magazine, the story was released as a hardcover album in 1956. Story When the Marsupilami causes chaos all over town, Spirou and Fantasio decide that it is time to take him back to his home in the Palombian jungles. After an eventful journey by cruise ship, they find that Fantasio's shady cousin Zantafio has reinvented himself as General Zantas and become the country's ruthless dictator. The now power-mad Zantafio, intent on invading a neighbouring country, offers them top positions in his army, and when they indignantly refuse throws them in jail. The pair decide to feign a change of heart, and plan to foil the invasion using one of The Count of Champignac's curious inventions... Background Two characters introduced in previous stories return for the first time in this one: the resourceful Seccotine, and the shift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derib
Derib (born Claude de Ribaupierre on August 8, 1944, in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland) is a Swiss francophone comics creator. He is most well known for creating the comics Buddy Longway and Yakari. Awards * 1974: ''Best Comic'' at the Prix Saint-Michel, Belgium * 1978: '' Best Foreign Artist'' at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France * 1982: '' Youth Award (9-12 years)'' at the Angoulême International Comics Festival * 1994: nominated for Best German-language Comic/Comic-related Publication at the Max & Moritz Prizes, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ... * 2005: nominated for the Best Series Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival * 2006: '' Youth Award (7-8 years)'' at the Angoulême International Comics Festival Sources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attila (comics)
Attila (, ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Bulgars, among others, in Central and Eastern Europe. During his reign, he was one of the most feared enemies of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires. He crossed the Danube twice and plundered the Balkans, but was unable to take Constantinople. His unsuccessful campaign in Persia was followed in 441 by an invasion of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, the success of which emboldened Attila to invade the West. He also attempted to conquer Roman Gaul (modern France), crossing the Rhine in 451 and marching as far as Aurelianum (Orléans), before being stopped in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains. He subsequently invaded Italy, devastating the northern provinces, but was unable to take Rome. He planned for further campaigns against the Romans, but died in 453. After Attila's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Deliège
Paul Deliège (21 January 1931 – 7 July 2005) was a Belgian artist and writer of comics. He is most famous for his series '' Bobo''. Biography Deliège was born in Olne. He started in the daily '' Le Soir'' with ''Père Bricole et Félicien et les Romanis''. In 1959, he got into éditions Dupuis where he launched ''les aventures de Théophile et Philibert'' with Vicq. at the start of the 1960s, he was the principal creator of the ''Mini-récits'' (mini-stories) in the magazine Spirou, where he created '' Bobo'', his best-known hero. The series '' Les Krostons'', about three green imps and their unsuccessful attempts to take over the world, (with Piroton) and ''Le trou du souffleur'' (The souffleur's hole) followed shortly. Deliège was also writer for the series ''Sam et l'Ours'' (Sam and the bear, drawn by Lagas) and some stories of ''Sybilline'' (drawn by Macherot). ''The Krostons'' is being made into a 3-D film of the same name. Deliège died of a heart attack i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boule Et Bill
''Boule et Bill'' (known in English as ''Billy & Buddy'') is a popular comic, created in 1959 by Belgian writer-artist Jean Roba in collaboration with Maurice Rosy. In 2003, the artistic responsibility of the series was passed on to Roba's former assistant Laurent Verron. The stories center on a typical family: a man and his wife, their young son Boule and Bill the cocker spaniel. History ''Boule et Bill'' first appeared in the Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou'' on December 24, 1959. The ambition was to make a sort of European Peanuts. The debut was made in a so-called '' mini-récit'' (mini-story), a story in 32 very small pages, printed on the inner spread of the magazine. Roba had until then mainly made illustrations for the magazine and had helped some other authors (including André Franquin), and now started with his own series. A few months later, a four-page comic with the same heroes appeared, and shortly thereafter Roba created a weekly one page comic. For the next twenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Roba
Jean Roba (28 July 1930 – 14 June 2006) was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is ''Boule et Bill''. Biography Jean Roba was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Roba". In België gestript, pp. 151–152. Tielt: Lannoo. In his youth, he was a reader of French magazines like '' Robinson'' and ''Mickey'', which featured mainly American comics. One of those that was especially influential on Roba was '' Katzenjammer Kids''. After working as an illustrator for different magazines and publicity agencies, he started to work as an illustrator for '' Spirou'' magazine in 1957, where he made small cartoons for the front page for a few years. He also worked on ''Bonnes Soirées'', another magazine from the same publisher Dupuis, where he continued the series ''Sa majesté mon mari'' after Albert Uderzo stopped. For ''Spirou'', he made a few short stories with Yvan Delporte and collaborated on different stories of ''Spirou et Fantasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
