Grzegorz Rosiński

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Grzegorz Rosiński

Grzegorz Rosiński (born August 3, 1941 in Stalowa Wola , Poland ) is a Polish comic artist , painter and graphic artist . He was best known for the Thorgal comic series , which, like The Great Power of Little Schninkel, was created in collaboration with the Belgian author Jean van Hamme . The texts in the Hans series drawn by Rosiński come from André-Paul Duchâteau .

Rosiński published his first comics at the age of 16. He later graduated from the School of Fine Arts (Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych) and the Academy of Fine Arts (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych) in Warsaw. In 1968 Rosiński started his first two comic series, Kpt. Zbik and Kpt. Zloss (according to other information Kpt. Kloss ), which he drew until 1972. As a result of his collaboration with the Polish comic magazines Alfa and Relax , the Belgian publisher Lombard became aware of Rosiński, and in 1977 the comic La Croisière Fantastique, drawn under the pseudonym Rosek , appeared in Spirou magazine . In the same year, Rosińskis moved to Tintin , for whom he created the fantasy series Thorgal and Hans . In 1982 he moved to Belgium. Rosiński has lived in Switzerland in the Valais municipality of Mollens since 1992 .

Rosiński, who also does inking and lettering for his drawings , has received several international prizes for the albums in the Thorgal series . In September 2006 he was honored with the high order Polonia Restituta of the Republic of Poland for his artistic oeuvre.

In 2010 he was awarded the Belgian Order of Leopold II .

Works

  • Le grand pouvoir du Chninkel. 1988; dt. The great power of little Schninkel . Carlsen , 1989.
  • Western film. 2001; German Western. Writer & Reader , 2001.
  • Thorgal. 36 volumes, since 1977; German at Carlsen and Splitter .
  • La Vengeance du Comte Skarbek. 2 volumes, 2004-2005; German as Skarbek at Schreiber & Leser.
  • Complainte des land perdues. 4 volumes, 1993-1998; dt. as the lost land. at Carlsen.
  • Hans . 6 volumes, 1983-1996; German at strip mirror. A three-volume complete edition of the original twelve-volume series was published by Splitter in 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Grzegorz Rosiński at lambiek.net (English) , accessed on August 16, 2011.
  2. ↑ Marcel Feige : The little comic dictionary . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-544-9 , p. 646.
  3. ↑ a b c d Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexikon. Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 386.
  4. ^ Biography of Grzegorz Rosiński on lelombard.info (French), accessed on August 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ mtom / ola: Ojciec “Thorgala” odznaczony przez króla. TVN24.pl, January 18, 2010, accessed August 18, 2011 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Rosiński, Grzegorz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Stalowa Wola , Poland