Friday, January 17, 2014
Guess whats for dinner
Doing some late night shopping, trying to get something decent on the table, I found myself lurking around the local comics shop, looking for a classic story. Although not my initial destination, I did find something that would serve well with some chiante.
It’s a little gem from 1968, a first edition Cuvelier, which he created while still working for Le Journal de Tintin, the Tintin comic magazine, published in both French and Dutch between 1946 and 1993. Entitled The Devil’s Canyon (De Duivels Kloof in Dutch) this comic was Cuvelier’s second comic featuring the female character Line (or Dientjeas she was called here). In all, five books were published between 1966 and 1982, written by Michel Regnier aka Greg, the Belgian comic author who had worked with Franquin and wrote his scripts for Spirou. Above: front and back cover of The Devils Canyon)
De Kremer (1887-1964), also wrote the French novel Malpertuis in 1943, which was turned into a movie in 1973 starring Orson Welles, director of Citizen Kane, which, according to AFI (the American Film Institute) is still the #1 movie in their list of the 100 best (American) movies.
During the second World War, the Nazis outlawed American comics and paper became scarce. So local talents came forward and started making their own comics, that could replace them. One of those people was Edgar P. Jacobs (1904 - 1987), who created The U Ray, a prologue to his later famous comic series Blake & Mortimer. Other artists were Jacques Laudy (1907 - 1993), a good friend of Jacobs, after who he had modeled his Blake character, Raymond Reding (1920 - 1999) and Willy Vandersteen (1913 - 1990), who would draw Sinbad, Thor and Lancelot.
For Bravo magazine, Paul Cuvelier would draw his western comic Colby, written by Hergé and Edgar P. Jacobs.
"The Devils Canyon" is in Dutch, but its absolutely worthwhile to post some of that gorgeous interior artwork as well. Time to start reading! Bon Appétite!
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