Jean-Michel Charlier

JeanMichel Charlier 30 October 1924 10 July 1989 was a Belgian comics writer He was a cofounder of the famed FrancoBelgian comics magazine Pilote Charlier was born in Liège Belgium in 1924 In 1945 he got a job as a draughtsman in Brussels with World Press the syndicate of Georges Troisfontaines which worked mainly for Spirou magazine The following year he and artist Victor Hubinon created the fourpage comic strip LAgonie du Bismarck Charlier wrote the script and also drew the ships and airplanes In 1947 Charlier and Hubinon began the longrunning airadventure comic strip Buck Danny After a few years Charlier stopped all work on the drawings and concentrated only on the scenarios on the advice of Jijé then the senior artist at Spirou Unable to support himself writing comic scripts at a time when Dupuis concentrated almost solely on the magazine and albums were few and far between Charlier qualified for a pilots license in 1949 and briefly flew for the airline SABENA However the following year Charlier returned to comic strips collaborating with Hubinon once again to create Tiger Joe for La Libre Junior the weekly comics supplement to the journal La Libre Belgique Charlier also continued to supply scripts for Spirou magazine collaborating with Eddy Paape on the strip Valhardi and in 1955 with future Asterix artist Albert Uderzo on the comic strip Belloy Together with Hubinon he also created some biographical comics like Jean Mermoz and Surcouf Other longrunning series he started for Spirou in the early 1950s were La Patrouille des Castors for Mitacq and in 1951 Les Vraies Histoires de lOncle Paul Uncle Pauls true stories a weekly comic of four pages telling a true story The latter series was continued from 1954 on by Octave Joly and was a place where many young talents published their first comics including Jean Graton René Follet and Hermann Huppen Charlier Hubinon Uderzo and comicstrip writer René Goscinny founded the comics agency Edifrance and the magazine Pistolin in 1955 and the influential magazine Pilote in 1959 Charlier was editorinchief and also wrote two stories for the first issue Redbeard with Hubinon and Tanguy and Laverdure with Uderzo these latter two characters would later get their own TV series as well Les Chevaliers du Ciel featuring Tanguy and Laverdure was made by ORTF between 1967 and 1969 an Englishdubbed version of the show being released under the title The Aeronauts Source Article JeanMichel Charlier from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30