Fernand Dineur

Fernand Dineur (born May 17, 1904 in Anderlecht , Belgium ; † April 1, 1956 ) was a Belgian comic artist and author and is - although largely unknown in Germany - one of the pioneers of Franco-Belgian comics .

Before Dineur started drawing comics, he tried a wide variety of professions, including butcher and police officer. In the Belgian Congo he worked temporarily as a commercial agent and at the same time as a territorial official. When he published his first illustrations ( Les tribulations de Prosper ) in the Belgian press ( Le Soir , Le Moustique ) in the late 1930s , he became aware of Jean Dupuis , who was looking for Belgian talent for his new weekly magazine Spirou . Dineur was asked to contribute to the first Spirou number of April 21, 1938 and created the original version of Tif et Tondu (GermanHarry and Platte or Gin and Fizz ). In the period that followed, Dineurcreated other series for Dupuis' weekly magazine ( Flup Détective ; Puis les Exploits de Bibn Ripp, Fitt et Jop ) inaddition to regular Tif and Tondu adventures.

After a decade of regular contributions to Spirou, there was a break with Jean Dupuis in 1948 when Dineur published complete Tif and Tondu adventures in the competition paper Héroïc-Albums . After Dupuis had secured the rights to the figures, he entrusted the further graphic development of the series to Will Maltaite . Dineur wrote a few more scenarios for the series, but in 1952 he was also replaced as a copywriter by a successor, first by Maurice Rosy and later by Maurice Tillieux .

In Germany, only the adventures of Tif and Tondu , written by his successors, are known to a wider audience.

In 1976 Deligne dedicated a five-volume retrospective to the pioneer of Belgian comics with all of the “ Tif and Tondu ” adventures he had drawn .