École Marcinelle

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As marcinelle school is defined as a style in the comic . The term refers to a group of Belgian comic strip artists who worked for the comic book magazine Spirou in the period after the Second World War , whose editorial offices were in the town of Marcinelle near Charleroi in the 1940s . The term École Marcinelle is often used as a counter-term to the so-called " Ligne Claire ".

Characteristic

A formal distinguishing feature is the assignment to the comic book publishers Dupuis , which stands for the École Marcinelle, and Le Lombard , the publisher of the Tintin magazine , whose "house style" was the "Ligne Claire". This distinction may have been justified in the 1940s and early 1950s, but in the course of the following decades the publisher's assignment as a delimitation criterion became increasingly unsuitable, as leading representatives of the École Marcinelle (e.g. André Franquin, Willy Maltaite) later also worked for Tintin .

A clear stylistic delimitation of the styles or “schools” hardly seems possible. While the Ligne Claire is defined by clear style features, the appearance of the École Marcinelle is much more inconsistent. The statement that representatives of the École Marcinelle often stand for a dynamic drawing style in which the visualization of movement is of great importance, while on the other hand the Ligne Claire often appears somewhat static, has a certain generality.

Representative

Just as Hergé stands as a symbolic figure for the Ligne Claire, the term École Marcinelle is inextricably linked with the draftsman Joseph Gillain (Jijé). In the period after the Second World War, Jijé had taken a number of talented young draftsmen under his wing with André Franquin, Maurice de Bévère (Morris) and Willy Maltaite and formed a living and studio community with them in his house in Waterloo . Eddy Paape was also a regular visitor to what was later called the "Gang of Four". They all owed Jijé their start at Spirou.

This group of people forms the core of the École Marcinelle, which also includes Jijé's later pupils, Jean Roba and Jidéhem. The term École Marcinelle therefore also stands for all comic artists who have been influenced by Jije.

The most important representatives of this style are:

source

  • Klaus D. Schleiter (Ed.): Spirou and his authors. Mosaik - Steinchen-für-Steinchen-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-932667-60-3 ( Zack Dossier 2).

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