Lambil

Infobox Comics creator
name = Lambil


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birthname = Willy Lambillotte
birthdate = birth date and age|1936|05|14
location = Tamines, Belgium
nationality = Belgian
area = artist, writer
alias =
notable works = "Les Tuniques Bleues"
awards = Grand Prix Saint-Michel 2006

Lambil (May 14, 1936) is a Belgian comic-book artist, best known for the series "Les Tuniques Bleues", which was briefly published in the United States as "The Blue Tunics."

Biography

Willy Lambillotte was born in Tamines, Belgium in 1936. De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Lambil". In België gestript, pp. 135-136. Tielt: Lannoo.] He studied Fine Arts in Brussels and first presented his drawings at the publisher Dupuis, known for the magazine "Spirou", when he is 16. He was accepted as a letterer, and got to know the major artists of the magazine of the time like Jijé and André Franquin.

In 1959, he published his first comic, "Sandy", about an Australian teenager and his kangaroo Hoppy. The story was written by Henri Gillain, the brother of Jijé, and was the start of more than 20 stories in the same series, which only had a moderate success and did not get published in albums until much later. A few years later, Lambil parodied his own series in the irregular funny animal comic "Hobby and Koala", about a kangaroo and a koala.

When in 1972 Louis Salvérius, the artist of "Les Tuniques Bleues", unexpectedly died, a successor was sought amongst the Dupuis artists. Lambil was asked to continue the series. Due to its rapid success, he had to drop "Sandy". Lambil worked with writer Raoul Cauvin and his only other major series was "Pauvre Lampil", a series of short humoristic semi-autobiographic stories satirizing the hard life of a comics writer and his artist partner — caricatures of Cauvin and Lambil themselves. Lambil would not make any more comics in the next 35 years apart from the more than 40 albums of "Les Tuniques Bleues", which have since sold over 15 million copies.

Bibliography

Awards

* 2004: Prix Géant de la BD by the Chambre Belge des Experts en Bande Dessinée [cite web |url=http://www.auracan.com/Indiscretions/2004/20041011.html |title=Comics Festival 3 à Bruxelles: Le Bilan |accessdate=2007-02-19 |publisher=Auracan.com |language=French ]
* 2006: Grand Prix Saint-Michel, Brussels, Belgium [cite web |url=http://cfbelgium.free.fr/festival2006.php#prijzen |title=Comics Festival Belgium |accessdate=2007-02-19]

Notes

ource

* Béra, Michel; Denni, Michel; and Mellot, Philippe (2002): "Trésors de la Bande Dessinée 2003-2004". Paris, Les éditions de l'amateur. ISBN 2-85917-357-9

External links

* [http://lambiek.net/artists/l/lambil.htm Biography at Comiclopedia]
* [http://www.dupuis.com/servlet/jpecat?pgm=VIEW_AUTHOR&lang=UK&AUTEUR_ID=102 Biography at Dupuis]