Balthazar (comic)
Balthazar is a Franco-Belgian comic series published between 1965 and 1979 .
action
Balthazar is a small elderly man with a white mustache who gets into all sorts of strange and absurd situations.
background
Bob de Moor wrote and drew the humorous series, which often does without words.
He originally developed the character as a supporting character in his series Monsieur Tric . Hergé liked the trial drawings and suggested that de Moor create a new series around the figure. He later described Balthasar as an essential step in Hergé's emancipation and as the figure with whom he would identify most.
publication
More than forty short episodes from half a page to full page length appeared between 1965 and 1967 in the Belgian and French editions of Tintin . A final one-pager came out in Super Tintin in 1979. Magic Strip followed in 1984 with an anthology. In the German-speaking area, some episodes were published in Tim magazine from 1966 to 1968 , later a total of two gags in issue 24 and 25 of 1972 of the old Zack magazine .
reception
Balthazar can be seen in Tim and the Picaros as a floating balloon.
The series was unpopular with Tintin's readers .
Volker Hamann sees it in the tradition of American newspaper comics.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Volker Hamann: Bob de Moor. In: Reddition. 58/2013, Edition Alfons , Verlag Volker Hamann, Barmstedt, p. 45.
- ↑ Balthazar in Tintin (Belgium) on bdoubliees.com (French)
- ↑ Balthazar in Tintin (France) on bdoubliees.com (French)
- ↑ Balthazar on bedetheque.com (French)
- ↑ Balthazar (1972) in Zack on comicguide.de