Belgian Comics Writers: Herg , Hermann Huppen, Andr Franquin, Willy Vandersteen, Marcel Denis, Jef Nys, Raoul Cauvin, Jean Van Hamme, Mitacq

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Herge, Hermann Huppen, Andre Franquin, Willy Vandersteen, Marcel Denis, Jef Nys, Raoul Cauvin, Jean Van Hamme, Mitacq, Greg, Raymond Macherot, Jean-Michel Charlier, Edgar P. Jacobs, Jije, Peyo, Maurice Tillieux, Stephen Desberg, Morris, Victor Hubinon, Bernard Hislaire, Arthur Berckmans, Dany, Merho, Rene Hausman, Bob de Moor, Roger Leloup, Jean Roba, Lambil, George Van Raemdonck, Jean-Philippe Stassen, Dino Attanasio, Benoit Sokal, Midam, Andre Geerts, Bob de Groot, Yves Sente, Pierre Seron, Maurice Rosy, Alcante, Yvan Delporte, Willy Linthout, Jacques Van Melkebeke, Paul Deliege, Francois Gilson, Henri Gillain, Dupa, Renaud Denauw, Pom, Jean Dufaux, Marvano, Andre-Paul Duchateau, Paul Geerts, Patryck de Froidmont. Excerpt: Willy Vandersteen (15 February 1913 - 28 August 1990) was a Belgian creator of comic books. In a career spanning 50 years, he created a large studio and published more than 1,000 comic albums in over 25 series, selling more than 200 million copies worldwide. Considered together with Marc Sleen the founding father of Flemish comics, he is mainly popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Herge called him The Brueghel of the comic strip, while the creation of his own studio and the mass production and commercialization of his work turned him into the Walt Disney of the Low Countries. Vandersteen is best known for Suske en Wiske (published in English as Spike and Suzy, Luke and Lucy, Willy and Wanda or Bob and Bobette), which in 2008 sold 3.5 million books. His other major series are De Rode Ridder with over 200 albums and Bessy with almost 1,000 albums published in Germany. Willebrord Jan Frans Maria Vandersteen was born in Antwerp in 1913. His family lived in the Seefhoek, a poor quarter of the city, where his father Francis Vandersteen worked as a decorator and stone sculptor. His stud...