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Lambil (born 14 May 1936) is a Belgian
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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
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, 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
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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 Joseph Gillain (), better known by his pen name Jijé (; 13 January 1914 – 19 June 1980), was a Belgian comics artist, best known for being a seminal artist on the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' strip (and for having introduced the Fantasio character) a ...
and André Franquin. In 1959, he published his first comic, ''Sandy'', about an
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n teenager and his
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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 irregular
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comic ''Hobby and Koala'', about a kangaroo and a
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, and as ''Panty et son kangarou'' (see below). When in 1972 Louis Salvérius, the artist of '' Les Tuniques Bleues'' ("The Blue Coats"), unexpectedly died, a successor was sought amongst the Dupuis artists. Lambil was asked to continue the series in collaboration with writer Raoul Cauvin. Whereas ''Sandy'' was drawn in a realistic style, '' Les Tuniques Bleues'' was comical and humorous, even though it is set during the
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and is rather graphic in its portrayal of battle and its aftermath. Due to the rapid success of '' Les Tuniques Bleues'' (which has become a major best-selling series), Lambil had to drop ''Sandy''. As of 2009, Lambil has made more than 40 albums of ''Les Tuniques Bleues'', which have sold over 15 million copies. His only other major contribution was ''Pauvre Lampil'' ("Poor Lampil"), a series of short humoristic semi-autobiographic stories, satirizing the hard life of a comics artist and his writing partner – caricatures of Lambil and Cauvin themselves – as they argue about almost everything, from work to life in general. The strip is also a domestic one in the style of '' Blondie'' with the ever-depressed Lampil having to put up with everything life throws at him, which is not helped by the more cheery dispositions of his wife and their son Joel. The strip also features caricatures of other comics artists like André Franquin and
Jean-Claude Fournier Jean-Claude Fournier (; born 21 May 1943, Paris), known simply as Fournier, is a French cartoonist best known as the comic book artist who handled ''Spirou et Fantasio'' in the years 1969-1979. Biography In 1965, Fournier approached André Franqu ...
. In his early appearances, Lampil's comic strip is described as ''Panty et son kangourou'' ("Panty and his Kangaroo") which only has a moderate success, but latter ones had him and Cauvin actually working on ''Les Tuniques Bleues''.


Bibliography


Awards

* 2004: Prix Géant de la BD by the Chambre Belge des Experts en Bande Dessinée * 2006: Grand Prix Saint-Michel,
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, Belgium


Notes


Sources

* Béra, Michel; Denni, Michel; and Mellot, Philippe (2002): "Trésors de la Bande Dessinée 2003–2004".
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, Les éditions de l'amateur.


External links


Biography at ComiclopediaBiography at Dupuis
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lambil 1936 births Living people People from Namur (province) Belgian comics writers Belgian comics artists Belgian humorists