Eddy Paape

Infobox Comics creator
name = Eddy Paape


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birthname = Edouard Paape
birthdate = birth date and age|1920|3|7
location = Grivegnée, Belgium
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nationality = Belgian
area = artist
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notable works = "Valhardi" "Marc Dacier" "Luc Orient"
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Eddy Paape (born on March 7, 1920 as Edouard Paape) is a Franco-Belgian cartoonist best known for illustrating the series "Luc Orient".

Biography

Eddy Paape was born in Grivegnée near Liège, Belgium in 1920.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Eddy Paape". In België gestript, pp. 147-148. Tielt: Lannoo.] He started his career as an animator, working from 1942 on at CBA, the same animation studio where a few years later he would be joined by future Belgian cartoonists André Franquin, Peyo, and Morris). Paape soon left the studio to work as a cover artist and later a cartoonist for different magazines of publisher Dupuis. He began working with famed Belgian cartoonist Jijé, first on his ambitious New Testament comic project "Emmanuel". He then succeeds Jijé as illustrator of the detective series "Valhardi", published in the Belgian comics magazine "Spirou". Paape illustrated the series from 1946 until 1954, working with famous European comics authors Jean-Michel Charlier and Yvan Delporte.

Paape became an artist for the World Press syndicate, continuing to illustrate comics, mainly for "Spirou". World Press Syndicate is a Belgian syndicate, based on the model of American syndicates like King Features Syndicate, and its main authors are writer Charlier and artist Victor Hubinon. Paape helps them with their series "Buck Danny" and the pirate biography "Surcouf". For many years, the style of Paape would be a clear mixture of the influence of Jijé and Hubinon. In 1958 Paape created "Marc Dacier", a series written by Charlier.

Paape's best-known collaboration began in 1966, when he created the "Flash Gordon"-like science fiction series "Luc Orient" with Greg. This series, published in "Tintin", became very popular and ran through 18 adventures.

In 1969 Paape began teaching draughtsmanship for comics at the Institut Saint-Luc art school in Brussels, where he remained until 1976.

Selected bibliography

*"Valhardi" (Jean-Michel Charlier and Yvan Delporte, 1946), 4 albums, Dupuis
*"Marc Dacier" (Charlier, 1958): 13 albums, Dupuis
*"Luc Orient" (Greg, 1966): 18 albums, Le Lombard
*"Jeux de Toah" (Torah Game) (André-Paul Duchâteau, 1969)
*"Tommy Banco" (Greg, 1970): 2 albums, Le Lombard
*"Yorik des Tempêtes" (Yorik of the Storms) (Duchâteau, 1971): 1 album, Le Lombard
*"Les Jardins de la Peur" (The Gardens of Fear) (Jean Dufaux and Sohier, 1988): 1 album, Dargaud
*"Carol Détective" (Duchâteau, 1990): 2 albums, Le Lombard
*"Johnny Congo" (Greg, 1992): 2 albums, Lefrancq
*"Les Misérables" (after Victor Hugo, 1996): 1 album, Talent

ources

* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/auteurs5/paape.htm Eddy Paape publications in "Spirou"] , [http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/auteurs4/paape.htm "Pilote"] , [http://bdoubliees.com/tintinbelge/auteurs4/paape.htm Belgian "Tintin"] and [http://bdoubliees.com/journaltintin/auteurs4/paape.htm French "Tintin"] BDoubliées fr_icon
* [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-336-BD-Paape-Eddy.html Eddy Paape albums] Bedetheque fr_icon;Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/paape.htm Eddy Paape biography] on Lambiek Comiclopedia