Luc Cromheecke
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Luc Cromheecke (August 2, 1961) is a Belgian comics artist best known for the comic series Tom Carbon, Taco Zip, Roboboy and Plunk.
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[edit] Biography
Luc Cromheecke is born in Antwerp in 1961.[1] After having studied painting, graphic arts and publicity at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts of Antwerp, he creates with fellow student Fritzgerald the magazine "Flan Imperial", featuring material by Dutch artists René Windig and Eddie De Jong. The magazine sells badly despite a short review in Robbedoes, and folds after one issue.
Cromheecke then starts in 1983 the comic strip Taco Zip, which appears in Robbedoes, De Volkskrant, and De Morgen. He creates in the next years the series Tom Carbon, which appears in the Dutch magazine Sjors and again in Robbedoes. Both series have an initial run of 4 albums, and Tom Carbon gets translated in French and German. In 1989, he is invited by the Comics Museum in Brussels to make the material for the displays about merchandising, for which he uses a minor character from Taco Zip, the mad alien Plunk.
In the next years, Cromheecke does a number of short lived series and makes many illustrations for magazines and for publicity campaigns. In 1994, he partakes in an exposition of young talents at the Angoulême International Comics Festival with Lewis Trondheim and others. He also makes a few CD-roms, and a short-lived series Ben le Forestier for the French magazine Astrapi, but in general seems to have quit the comics scene in those years.
In 2003, he returns with Roboboy, a juvenile series about a robot child living with a normal family, and the havoc it unwillingly creates. The renewed interest in his work this generates sparks additional comics from some old series like Tom Carbon and Taco Zip. Together with Jean-Michel Thiriet, he creates since many years a weekly page in Spirou to get people to take a subscription. In 2006, he also creates the spin-off series Plunk for Spirou, and publishes the first album of Ben de Boswachter. An exposition celebrating twenty years of Taco Zip debutes at Strip Turnhout in Turnhout, and travels around different cities in Belgium and the Netherlands, including the oldest comic shop of Europe, Lambiek in Amsterdam[2] Cromheecke draws at the end of 2005 the cover for the last issue of Robbedoes magazine after 67 years, which is also used for the last collection of Robbedoes magazines, album #262.
Cromheecke cites as his influences American comic strips like B.C. and Peanuts.[3]
[edit] Bibliography
- Ben de Boswachter, 1 album, 2006, story by Laurent Letzer: Bries
- Plunk!, 2 albums, 2007-, story by Laurent Letzer: Dupuis
- Roboboy, 5 albums, 2003-, story by Willy Linthout: Dupuis and Mezzanine
- Taco Zip, 4 albums, 1989-1993, and one anthology in 2005, stories by Fritzgerald and Jakketoe: Gezellig & Leuk, Oog & Blik and Beedee
- Tom Carbon, 6 albums, 1991-, story by Laurent Letzer and Fritzgerald: Dupuis and Beedee, translated in French (Tom Carbone) and German (Fritz Lakritz)
His comics have been translated in many languages, including French, German, Spanish, Danish and Indonesian.[4]
[edit] Awards
- 1992: nominated for the Award for a First Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France[1]
- 1994: nominated for the Award for best foreign comic at the Angoulême International Comics Festival[1]
- 2002: Best Author (Dutch language) at the Prix Saint-Michel, Brussels
- 2003: Best Youth Album (Dutch language) at the Prix Saint-Michel
- 2007: nominated for the Bronzen Adhemar, Turnhout
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Luc Cromheecke". In België gestript, pp. 99-100. Tielt: Lannoo.
- ^ Expo at Lambiek, in Dutch (Last retrieved October 26, 2006)
- ^ Interview in 8weekly, in Dutch (Last retrieved October 26; 2006)
- ^ Curriculum Vitae (Last retrieved October 26, 2006)
[edit] Source
- Béra, Michel; Denni, Michel; and Mellot, Philippe (1998): "Trésors de la Bande Dessinée 1999-2000". Paris, Les éditions de l'amateur. ISBN 978-2-85917-258-9
[edit] External links
- Cromheecke homepage (Last retrieved October 26, 2006)
- Biography at the Comiclopedia (Last retrieved October 26, 2006)
- Plunkblog by Cromheecke & Letzer
