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Jeronaton (* 4. September 1942 in Mons as Jean Torton ) is a Belgian comic book artist .
After studying at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels , he came to the Hergé studios and drew his first historical comics for the Tintin magazine , and later several assignments for the Le Soir newspaper . He then ended up at Studio Belvision and worked on the cartoons Asterix and Cleopatra and Der Sonnentempel as a background artist. Back at Tintin , he drew L'Histoire de Popocatepetl and Les Conquérants du Mexique from 1971 , two stories about the colonization of Central America. From 1978 he published the stories Champakou and L'Œuf du monde (German: Das Weltei ) for the magazine Métal hurlant . With Le Grand Passage (German: Im Reich Peyotl ), Amazones (German: Amazons ) and L'Éternel Voyage , he created other works, which he captured in an elaborate, photo-realistic painting style. Thematically it was about archaic peoples like the Mayas or the Indians of North America .
In Germany, the stories Champakou , Das Weltei , Im Reich Peyotls and Amazons appeared in the adult comic magazine Schwermetall in the 1980s .
Under his real name Jean Torton he recorded several albums in the Alix side series Les Voyages d'Alix and Alix raconte from 2004.
Albums
- Champakou (Volksverlag, 1981)
- In the realm of Peyotl (Becker & Knigge, 1982)
literature
- Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 435 f
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| SURNAME | Jeronaton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Torton, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mons |