If Lucky Luke or the Smurfs: Belgium’s Comic book heroes you know in the world, but what makes the small country Europe cartoon producer, no. 1? And can also claim Dickie and co. international? A Track Search.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Tintin
There is hardly an area of the earth, to master the Tintin already dangerous situations had. Even the moon, you have been in 1950, long before Neil Armstrong, traveled. Support the adventure will end in funny Trailer from constantly curse and a constantly drunk captain Haddock, the absent-minded Professor calculus and the bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Spirou and Fantasio
Spirou began his career in 1938 as a bell boy, in 1943, the Reporter Fantasio entered his life. Together, the two have numerous adventures. The count of carnival village, the villainous Zantafio, the mad scientist play Zyklotrop and, later, the hapless Mafia Boss Don Vito Cortizone again and again. And, not least, the jungle animal Marsupilami.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Marsupilami
The yellow-and-black spotted Marsupilami lives in a jungle Palumbiens and belongs to the family of monotremes. It has an eight metre-long tail and likes to feed Piranhas. It is extremely rare, very shy and has super powers. His greatest enemies, a Jaguar who wants to eat his young, and the big-game hunter Bring M. back alive, wants to catch it, and an animal Park it, sell it.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Suske EN Wiske
Especially French-language Comic artist from Belgium made a Furore. However, there were also exceptions: for example, the Flame Willy Vandersteen invented the adventurous children’s Suske and Wise, which were published for the first Time in 1945, and in your home to a similar cult status achieved, such as “Tintin” or “Spirou”. Here they are posing Gucht with the artists Luc Morjeau (l) and Peter Van.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke in 1946 in the Wild West for law and order, and it must accept again and again with the four Dalton brothers. The legendary villains will not only Rob stagecoaches and banks, but terrorize is also brave citizens. Always on the side of the Cowboys: his horse Jolly Jumper, the play not only chess, but also saddle up and climb trees can.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Rick Master
Over 55 years, Rick Master, as determined in tricky cases. From 1955 to 2010, it consisted of a total of 77 adventure. The Reporter and Amateur detective has solved all sorts of curious cases, and with the supposed werewolves and vampires battling. But in the end, everything had a completely mundane explanation without any mysticism.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Gaston Lagaffe
Gaston is the (real) Comic book publisher Dupuis, but from the Work he does not think much. His Credo: “no to the hellish pace”. His time in office he uses to make music and to take care of his animals, including a mouse family that lives in a files folder. Besides, he is out on inventions: a cigarette stub suction machine or a hammock from expanders.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
The Smurfs
Known for the lovable blue fellow in 1958. They live in the Enchanted Land in hollowed-out mushrooms. Hard-working you are (with the exception of lazybones smurf, the even in the Are asleep), and they play music like that. Papa smurf has magic powers and protected his flock with magic: This is also necessary because of the evil wizard Gargamel want the Smurfs to the collar.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Gargamel
He is the only person in the Enchanted country, and is eager to make Gold. For the recipe, he needs a smurf. As a garnish in the soup, he would not mow him but also wasted. In this respect, the Smurfs have to be constantly on the alert. Always at his side: the cat Azrael.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Silence – the silent
The mute and slightly retarded servant of the farmer, Abel is treated of his bread to the Lord is bad. But Silence sees in each person only the Good and does not even notice that it rejects him as an outsider in the village. When he falls in love with a witch, takes the evil to run its course. Silence, published in 1980, was the biggest success of the artist Didier Comès, a pioneer of the Graphic Novel.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
The Cat
“The cat,” started her career in 1984 in the newspaper “Le Soir”. If your Creator Philippe Geluck sitting at the Desk and you anschielt him from the blade, he had the feeling that you are Strange told him what he says. And he then, as here: “While the men formed the European Union, took care of the women of the household, the children and the groceries.”
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Dickie
Dickie is the creature of the Flemish draughtsman Pieter de Poortere and thrilled since 2001, a growing fan base. Dickie is a farmer, and born to be unlucky. The bitter evil stories come without words, where the Hero slips into different roles. Time, he is Bin Laden, at times, Hitler’s son and then all of a sudden Marilyn Monroe. And always goes for the poor guy badly.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Tintin
There is hardly an area of the earth, to master the Tintin already dangerous situations had. Even the moon, you have been in 1950, long before Neil Armstrong, traveled. Support the adventure will end in funny Trailer from constantly curse and a constantly drunk captain Haddock, the absent-minded Professor calculus and the bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Spirou and Fantasio
Spirou began his career in 1938 as a bell boy, in 1943, the Reporter Fantasio entered his life. Together, the two have numerous adventures. The count of carnival village, the villainous Zantafio, the mad scientist play Zyklotrop and, later, the hapless Mafia Boss Don Vito Cortizone again and again. And, not least, the jungle animal Marsupilami.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Marsupilami
The yellow-and-black spotted Marsupilami lives in a jungle Palumbiens and belongs to the family of monotremes. It has an eight metre-long tail and likes to feed Piranhas. It is extremely rare, very shy and has super powers. His greatest enemies, a Jaguar who wants to eat his young, and the big-game hunter Bring M. back alive, wants to catch it, and an animal Park it, sell it.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Suske EN Wiske
Especially French-language Comic artist from Belgium made a Furore. However, there were also exceptions: for example, the Flame Willy Vandersteen invented the adventurous children’s Suske and Wise, which were published for the first Time in 1945, and in your home to a similar cult status achieved, such as “Tintin” or “Spirou”. Here they are posing Gucht with the artists Luc Morjeau (l) and Peter Van.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke in 1946 in the Wild West for law and order, and it must accept again and again with the four Dalton brothers. The legendary villains will not only Rob stagecoaches and banks, but terrorize is also brave citizens. Always on the side of the Cowboys: his horse Jolly Jumper, the play not only chess, but also saddle up and climb trees can.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Rick Master
Over 55 years, Rick Master, as determined in tricky cases. From 1955 to 2010, it consisted of a total of 77 adventure. The Reporter and Amateur detective has solved all sorts of curious cases, and with the supposed werewolves and vampires battling. But in the end, everything had a completely mundane explanation without any mysticism.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Gaston Lagaffe
Gaston is the (real) Comic book publisher Dupuis, but from the Work he does not think much. His Credo: “no to the hellish pace”. His time in office he uses to make music and to take care of his animals, including a mouse family that lives in a files folder. Besides, he is out on inventions: a cigarette stub suction machine or a hammock from expanders.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
The Smurfs
Known for the lovable blue fellow in 1958. They live in the Enchanted Land in hollowed-out mushrooms. Hard-working you are (with the exception of lazybones smurf, the even in the Are asleep), and they play music like that. Papa smurf has magic powers and protected his flock with magic: This is also necessary because of the evil wizard Gargamel want the Smurfs to the collar.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Gargamel
He is the only person in the Enchanted country, and is eager to make Gold. For the recipe, he needs a smurf. As a garnish in the soup, he would not mow him but also wasted. In this respect, the Smurfs have to be constantly on the alert. Always at his side: the cat Azrael.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Silence – the silent
The mute and slightly retarded servant of the farmer, Abel is treated of his bread to the Lord is bad. But Silence sees in each person only the Good and does not even notice that it rejects him as an outsider in the village. When he falls in love with a witch, takes the evil to run its course. Silence, published in 1980, was the biggest success of the artist Didier Comès, a pioneer of the Graphic Novel.
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
The Cat
“The cat,” started her career in 1984 in the newspaper “Le Soir”. If your Creator Philippe Geluck sitting at the Desk and you anschielt him from the blade, he had the feeling that you are Strange told him what he says. And he then, as here: “While the men formed the European Union, took care of the women of the household, the children and the groceries.”
-
Comic book heroes from Belgium
Dickie
Dickie is the creature of the Flemish draughtsman Pieter de Poortere and thrilled since 2001, a growing fan base. Dickie is a farmer, and born to be unlucky. The bitter evil stories come without words, where the Hero slips into different roles. Time, he is Bin Laden, at times, Hitler’s son and then all of a sudden Marilyn Monroe. And always goes for the poor guy badly.
“Comics are one of Belgium’s culture, such as chocolates and beer” is available on the official Belgian tourist site. And on the Website of the Comic center in Brussels, says: “More than 700 Comic strip authors, Belgium the country with the largest concentration of cartoonists per square kilometre!”
No question, in Belgium, is proud of the long Tradition of picture stories. Of course it will not have brought all of these signatories to world fame, but the total circulation for albums and TV shows is around 40 million copies per year. Of all the books published in the year in Belgium, 60 percent of the Comics. And long the Comic has gained the Status of “Ninth art”.
For the ninth art you can confess on the day of the Smurfs also self color
Competition to Disney & co.
Started the triumphal March of the Belgian Comics has continued, as a certain Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, “Tintin” in the world. The successful Duo was first published as a children of the Brussels newspaper “Le Vingtième Siècle Supplement”, but soon even the adults were crazy about the adventures of the roving reporter and his faithful white Terrier. And not just in his home: The stories have been sold in 84 countries around the globe and made the American Superiority of Disney and co. competition. “No Belgian is that known as Tim”, is Didier Leick, press spokesman for the Hergé Museum, is convinced. “Tim is not a typical Belgian, he is a universal Hero, but he is not a super hero. Everyone can identify with him, and the power of his fascination.”
Hergé as a model
For Tintin’s Creator Hergé, the Comic was always something Special: “There is not a secondary art, not a hierarchy between comics and painting,” he once said.
In front of the Hergé Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, a sculpture by the signer is. In 2019, to celebrate his heroes, Tintin your 90. Birthday.
Hergés work inspired many of the country people, to get to the pen. The “ligne claire”, the clean lines and precise contours, and solid colouring without shading, were signatories to a model for whole generations of Comic book. And so lovable figures, which had owed its popularity to the large spread of two Comic-week-sheets: 1938 launched in Marcinelle, near Charleroi resident Dupuis “Spirou emerged louder”, from 1946, the father of Belgian Comics, Hergé, released in Brussels, “Tintin”, the French Name of his hero, Tim was. Both magazines were the talent of young writers and shaped for the next decades, the European picture stories.
The Comic Book Heroes
In 1938, Spirou entered the picture, providing as a Page in the Hotel mosquito his service, at his side, always the squirrel Pips. First of all, from the Frenchman Rob-Vel for the new Comic magazine of the same Name, it was adopted the figure soon by the Belgian artist Joseph Gillain alias Jijé. Yet it is not until André Franquin of the series were in 1946, and the hero a friend of the page were the stories of the Europe-wide classic. Together with the life of the artist and the chaotic Reporter Fantasio Spirou experienced many exciting adventures.
Also far beyond Belgium’s borders, known for Lucky Luke.
Lucky Luke and his faithful horse Jolly Jumper, braving all the dangers
In 1946, the artist Morris brought the Cowboy to life. With his faithful horse Jolly Jumper, the even layers of the Hooves and saddle, but otherwise in for some Surprises is good, he fights in the Wild West against the Dalton gang.
In 1946, the atomic physicist, “Professor Mortimer and captain Blake,” the chief of the British secret service M. I. 5, on the Plan. The first of Edgar P. Jacobs invented episode in the series “Blake and Mortimer”, “the battle for the world”, processed the horrors of the Second world war and showed the apocalyptic Vision of a world that is threatened by a dictator.
The Smurfs started their world career in 1958 as a supporting actor in the Comic “Johan and peewit”. Its inventor, the artist Pierre Culliford, alias Peyo, had not expected that the audience would close the blue dwarves into the heart – but it did. The Smurfs appeared in 25 languages.
“The success of the Belgian Comics that has to do with the fact that it takes itself so seriously,” says Didier Leick. “He always has surrealistic elements that reach the audience well.”
Between fiction and reality
For example, the office messenger, Gaston, who appears in 1957 in the evergreen baggy jumper and worn out shoes suddenly, the Comic book publisher Dupuis and all in the way of our homes is. Reality and pictures of history mingle. Gaston was in the audience so popular that he eventually got his own series. Or the Marsupilami: shy and defensive at the same time. The South American fantasy creature, as well as Gaston, in between times on Spirou and Fantasio – Comic book heroes among themselves.
On Rick Master, one meets not only in the Comic, you can see him also on the walls of houses in action
And, not least, “Rick Master”, as the Journalist undAmateurdetektiv from 1955, is a large following behind flocking. Again and again he is embroiled in a mysterious criminal cases, in which werewolves, vampires, and other supernatural popping up Make. Where there is always a natural explanation for the mysterious incidents.
Mysteriously it was also in the 2013 late Didier Comès, among other things, for the magazine “Spirou” signed, but only a multi-award winning success landed. His main character in “Silence of the silent” is a naive village idiot that sees in each person only the Good in a witch in love, and at the end of his evil stepfather, is murdered.
Didier Comès signed outsider and felt himself as a
“Comès was dedicated in his work, always the outsiders of the society because he saw himself as a,” says Virgile Gauthier, Director of the Abbey of Stavelot, where you can admire works by the artist until 2020. Comès’ world is inspired by myths of his homeland, the moor landscape of the High Fens, and his black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings are dark and sinister.
The cat and Dickie
The supply of Comic book characters is not broke in Belgium in recent times. Philippe Geluck created in Brussels, his popular character “Le Chat” the cat that walks upright and with a shirt and tie is always correctly dressed. “The cat is for me a tool to tell the people something,” says Geluck, compared to a Belgian newspaper. “Sometimes it’s very philosophically, politically, and seriously, and sometimes it’s just crazy.”
“The cat” in the Comic Parade in Brussels
And then there is Dickie from the pen of the Flemish draughtsman Pieter de Poortere, a huge success in Belgium and the Netherlands. The somewhat dim-witted farmer slips into the wordless and sarcastic stories in various roles: he represents Bin Laden, then Hitler’s son, or Marilyn Monroe.
To pay tribute to all of the local Comic-book heroes, was opened in Brussels in 1989, a Museum of comics. On many walls all over the country Comic are immortalized characters, and once a year there is a Comic exhibition and a Parade with giant inflated cartoon characters.
No Chance against the manga
Abroad, the recent Belgian Comic book heroes, however, are not as well-known as once Tintin or Spirou and Fantasio, for the longest time, Japanese manga dominate the international market. But at least in Belgium, the readers of your Comics faithfully.