Lambil
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| Lambil | |
| Birth name | Willy Lambillotte |
| Born | May 14, 1936 Tamines, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Area(s) | artist, writer |
| 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."
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[edit] Biography
Willy Lambillotte was born in Tamines, Belgium in 1936. [1] 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.[1]
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 the rapid success of the series, he had to drop Sandy. Apart from Pauvre Lampil, a series of short humoristic semi-autobiographic stories satirizing the hard life of a team of a comics writer and artist, 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.[1]
[edit] Bibliography
| Series | Years | Volumes | Writer | Editor | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy et Hoppy | 1972-1981 | 18 | Lambil | Dupuis and Magic-Strip | Originally started in Spirou in 1959 |
| Les Tuniques Bleues | 1974- | 44 | Raoul Cauvin | Dupuis | The first six stories were drawn by Salverius |
| Pauvre Lampil | 1977-1995 | 7 | Raoul Cauvin | Dupuis |
[edit] Awards
- 2004: Prix Géant de la BD by the Chambre Belge des Experts en Bande Dessinée[2]
- 2006: Grand Prix Saint-Michel, Brussels, Belgium[3]
[edit] Notes
[edit] Source
- 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
