Jijé

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Joseph Gillain alias Jijé (born January 13, 1914 in Gedinne , † June 19, 1980 ) was a Belgian cartoonist .

Career

Joseph Gillain grew up with seven siblings. From 1928 he attended the École des Métiers d'art, an arts and crafts school in Maredsous , a monastery near Namur . From 1931 to 1932 he worked in a motorcycle factory and attended an evening course in drawing at the University of Charleroi . Gillain met the painter Gustave Camus there. From 1932 to 1933 he studied in Brussels at l'école de la Cambre during the day and at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles in the evening.

On April 12, 1937, Joseph Gillain married his long-time friend Annie Rodric, the sister of Marcel Rodric, a classmate from Maredsous. Marcel had died in an accident in 1933 at the age of 18, which resulted in a very close relationship between Joseph and Annie.

Joseph Gillain worked as an illustrator for various publishers and projects until he started drawing for Le Croisé magazine in 1935 . There he created the short-lived series Jojo . His second series was Blondin et Cirage , which he published in Petits Belges . In 1939 he started working for the new Spirou magazine . Since the previously published American comics were no longer available due to the prohibition of the German occupying forces, Robert Velter (Rob-Vel) and Jijé, as Joseph Gillain now called themselves , drew most of the content. He took over the series Spirou and Fantasio entirely from Rob-Vel and created his own series Jean Valhardi and biographies of Don Bosco and Christopher Columbus . Among other things, he also drew short replacement episodes for Superman stories.

After the war, he began working on a comic book version of the Gospels . He handed over the work on Spirou to Franquin , Valhardi to Eddy Paape and René Follet , and Blondin et Cirage to Hubinon . In 1949 he completely redrawn the biography of Don Bosco. This revised version is considered one of the best comic biographies.

After 1950 Jijé worked on new adventures by Jean Valhardi and Blondin et Cirage , he started the new western series Jerry Spring . In addition, he began work on the biographies of Robert Baden-Powell and Charles de Foucauld . Since his last work was no longer published in album form, he left Dupuis in the direction of Dargaud , where he took over Tanguy and Laverdure . In Pilote , he stepped in as a substitute draftsman for Lieutenant Blueberry and The Red Corsair . Despite illness, he later took over The Red Corsair .

Works

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2010: Jijé… Un artiste wallon au service de la bande dessinée , Musée provincial des Arts anciens du Namurois in Jambes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tonnerre à l'ouest (pages 28–36) ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jije.org
  2. ↑ Le cavalier perdu (pages 17–38) ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jije.org
  3. ↑ Le pirate sans visage (pp. 18–26) (French)
personal data
SURNAME Jijé
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gillain, Joseph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Think
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1980