Comic artists that I admire...

On this blog,  I will discuss some comic artists that I appreciate very much.  Their talents have been (or still are) an inspiration for me. That's why I want to put them in the spotlight for you, the blogreader that might not know them (especially if you're not from Belgium or France).

So here are the artists that are worth to check out:

Rosinski - read the article here

Thorgal by Rosinski

Dave Gibbons

Watchmen by Gibbons

Karel Biddeloo

The Red Knight by Karel Biddeloo

Philippe Delaby

Laments of the lost Moors (Complainte des Landes Perdues) by Delaby

Steven Dupré

Illustration by Steven Dupré

Hans Kresse

Illustration by Hans Kresse

Beatrice Tillier - read the article here

Le Bois des Vièrges (Virgin's Wood) by Tillier

Thierry Ségur - read the article here

"Légendes des contrées oubliées" (Legend of the forgotten countries)  by Ségur

James Gurney

Dinotopia by Gurney

Jean Giraud/Moebius

Blueberry by Giraud

In the following blog posts, you'll get a chance to meet them and their work.  


Maybe you wonder why most of these artists are less known outside Belgium and France?

Well actually Belgium and France have another "comic culture" than most other contries.

American comics and cartoons (action heroes and Disney-likes) are very popular in the whole world. 

But Belgium (in the fifties and sixties) and France (from the seventies on) developed their own way of comics, like Tintin (1930), Spirou (1939), Lucky Luke (1940's), Astérix (1959), The Smurfs (1950's), Suske en Wiske (1940's). I'm sure some of these names ring a bell :-).




These local comics have always been more popular than American import. Fact: any Disney-marketeer knows where Belgium lies, because it's the country where Disney-stuff has the most difficulties to penetrate the market and has the lowest sales-figures... 
Scandinavia for example, on the other hand, had a smaller local comic production in the past.  That market there has been heavy influenced by action heroes and the Disney-characters.

Photo credits: I took the pictures from Internet.  I do not own the copyright.  If you do a Google Image Search for the pictures, you'll find the rightfull owners. That's all for the legal stuff :-).