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Luc Collin
Luc Collin, best known by the pen name Batem (born 6 April 1960 in Kamina, Belgian Congo) is a Belgian comics artist best known as the artist successor of André Franquin of the series ''Marsupilami''. Biography Collin started his career in the studio of colorist Vittorio Leonardo, and at S.E.P.P. (''Société d'Edition, de Presse et de Publicité''), a subsidiary company of Dupuis that specialised on audiovisual adaptations of the characters that are the property of '' Spirou'' magazine. Collin worked on several merchandising projects involving ''Shoe'', the ''Snorky'' and the ''Marsupilami''. In 1987 Franquin asked him to do the artwork of ''Marsupilami''. He has illustrated stories of the series since, starting with '' La Queue du Marsupilami'' (1987), initially working with Franquin himself and several writers, such as Greg, Yann, Fauche, Éric Adam and Dugomier. The most recent album, ''Red monster'' was published in 2008. Bibliography *''Marsupilami'', 33 albums, with ...
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Kamina
Kamina is the capital city of Haut-Lomami Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Transport Kamina is known as an important railway node; three lines of the DRC railways run from Kamina toward the north, west, and south-east. The main railway line, the operating sections of the Cape to Cairo Railway, links the city with Tenke and Lubumbashi to the south and Kabalo and Kindu to the northeast. It has two airports, one civil ( Kamina Airport) and one military ( Kamina Base Airport). It lies along National Road 1 (N1) and Regional Road 630 (R630). Military The Belgian Armed Forces established a large military base in Kamina after the Second World War. The large base complex consisted of Base 1, an air base used for flying training, and Base 2, a paratroop training facility. From September 1953 to 1960, the Advanced Pilots' School of the Belgian Air Force operated some 60 North American Harvards from the base. When the Congo gained independence in June 1960, B ...
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La Queue Du Marsupilami
''La queue du Marsupilami'', written by Greg and drawn by Franquin and his collaborator Batem, is a comic album relating the adventures of the fictional character Marsupilami. This album is the number 1 in the series of Marsupilami albums, published by Marsu Productions. History With the album ''La queue du Marsupilami'', a new series is launched by Franquin entirely dedicated to the adventures of Marsupilami, who only appeared as a secondary character in the Spirou and Fantasio comics series. This album sold more than 600.000 copies. From 1987, one album was published each year. This first album was reedited three times, in 1991, 1997 and 2007. The creation of this new series was also forced by legal reasons: when Franquin left the publishing company Dupuis to start on his own Marsu Productions, he brought his own creations Marsupilami and Gaston Lagaffe ''Gaston'' is a Belgian gag-a-day comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the Franc ...
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Belgian Comics Artists
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1960 Births
It is also known as the " Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * January 1 – Cameroon becomes independent from France. * January 9– 11 – Aswan Dam construction begins in Egypt. * January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). * January 19 – A revised version of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "''Anpo (jōyaku)''"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by the massive Anpo protests in Japan. * January 21 ** Coalbrook mining disaster: A coal mine ...
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Marsu Productions
Marsu Productions is a comics publishing house which mainly manages the Franco-Belgian comics characters and copyright concerns of the comics universe of André Franquin (Marsupilami, Gaston Lagaffe, Le Petit Noël, Les Monstres). The company, based in Monaco, also manages the rights of François Walthéry's '' Natacha'' and ''Le P'tit bout d'chique'', and ''Léonid et Spoutnika'' by Yann and Philippe Bercovici among others. The name 'Marsu' refers to one Franquin's Marsupilami character. History Franquin, who had previously worked for the publishing house Dupuis, decided to leave his company and start his own in 1987. He brought along his own creations ''Marsupilami'' and ''Gaston Lagaffe'', and the company soon started launching a series of ''Marsupilami'' albums continuing publication of the character Franquin had created in 1952, while working on the series ''Spirou et Fantasio'' for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou''. Since Spirou and Fantasio were no ...
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Yann Le Pennetier
Yann is a French unisex given name, specifically, the Breton form of "Jean" (French for "John"). Notable persons with the name Yann include: __NOTOC__ In arts and entertainment *Yann Martel (born 1963), Canadian author *Yann Moix (born 1968), French author, film director and television presenter * Yann Peifer (born 1974), German disc-jockey *Yann Queffélec (born 1949), French author *Yann Tiersen (born 1970), French musician * Yann Le Pennetier (born 1954), a.k.a. Yann, French comics author * Yann Tomita (born 1952), Japanese musician In politics and activism * Yann Fouéré (1910–2011), French activist, Breton nationalist * Yann Goulet (1914–1999), French activist, Breton nationalist * Yann Le Pen (born 1963), French politician, daughter of French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen * Yann Piat (1949 –1994), French politician * Yann Wehrling (born 1971), French politician In sports * Yann Aurel Bisseck (born 2000), German footballer *Yann Bodiger (born 1995), French footballer ...
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Greg (comics)
Michel Régnier (5 May 1931 – 29 October 1999), best known by his pseudonym Greg, was a Belgian cartoonist best known for ''Achille Talon'', and later became editor of ''Tintin'' magazine. Biography Regnier was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1931. His first series, ''Les Aventures de Nestor et Boniface'', appeared in the Belgian magazine '' Vers l'Avenir'' when he was sixteen. He moved to the comic magazine ''Héroic Albums'', going on to work for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou'' in 1954. In 1955 he launched his own magazine, ''Paddy'', but eventually discontinued it. The series for which Greg is best known, ''Achille Talon'', began in 1963 in ''Pilote'' magazine, also the source of comics such as ''Asterix''.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Greg". In België gestript, pp. 117-119. Tielt: Lannoo. This series, which he both wrote and illustrated, presents the comic misadventures of the eponymous mild-mannered polysyllabic bourgeois. In all 42 albums appeared, the firs ...
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Comic Album
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus among theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common means of image-making in comics. Photo comics is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, and comic albums, have become increasingly common, along with webcomics as well as scientific/medical comics. The histo ...
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Spirou (magazine)
''Spirou'' () is a weekly Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company since April 21, 1938. It is 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 a sixteen-page weekly comics magazine composed of a mixture of short stories and gags, serial com ...
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Democratic Republic Of The Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is the List of African countries by area, second-largest country in Africa and the List of countries and dependencies by area, 11th-largest in the world. With a population of around 112 million, the DR Congo is the most populous nominally List of countries and territories where French is an official language, Francophone country in the world. Belgian French, French is the official and most widely spoken language, though there are Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, over 200 indigenous languages. The national capital and largest city is Kinshasa, which is also the economic center. The country is bordered by the Republic of the Congo, the Cabinda Province, Cabinda exclave of Angola, and the South Atlantic Ocean to the west; the Cen ...
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Dupuis
Éditions Dupuis S.A. () is a Belgium, Belgian publisher of comic albums and magazines. Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis is mostly famous for its comic comics album, albums and magazines. Initially a French language publisher, it now publishes numerous editions in both the French language and Dutch language, Dutch. Other language editions are mostly licensed to other publishers. History Early years Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis (1875–1952). 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'' [the mosquito] in French, ''HUMO, Humoradio'' in Dutch), a women's magazine (''Bonnes Soirées'' [good evenings] in French, ''De Haardvriend'' [the hearth's friend] in Dutch) and the children's comics magazine ''Spirou (magazine), Spirou''. The latter was originally only in French, and contained a mixture of American comics (e.g. ''Superman'', ''Brick Bra ...
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