Thierry Smolderen (born 25 November 1954) is an essay writer, and a scenario writer of Belgian

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s, for example of '' Gipsy''. He is a teacher at

École des Beaux-Arts École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...

Angoulême Angoulême (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Engoulaeme''; oc, Engoleime) is a commune, the prefecture of the Charente department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Angoumoisins ...

, and he devotes his energy to realising '' Coconino World'', the webzine he animates with some friends and former students. As a comic books historian, he wrote ''Naissances de la bande dessinée'' (2009), about the "platinum age" of comics. This book has been published in English by the University Press of Mississippi in 2014, under the title ''The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay'' ( Eisner Award nominee of 2015 in the Best Scholarly/Academic Work category).

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Coconino World
Belgian comics writers 1954 births Living people Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts Comics critics {{belgium-bio-stub