Karel Verschuere
Karel Verschuere (born November 19, 1924 in Borgerhout ; † August 10, 1982 ) was a Belgian cartoonist and author.
After fighting for the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front for four years in World War II , Verschuere spent four years in prison after the war. After a short period of independence in the early 1950s, self-taught Verschuere joined Willy Vandersteen's drawing studio in 1952 as one of the first employees . He specialized in realistic series and created the comic Bessy together with Vandersteen under the collective pseudonym Wirel . Other series in which Verschuere participated at the time were Karl May and De Rode Ridder , where he was supported by Frank Sels , among others . In 1966 he moved to the Antwerp drawing studio Bessy, which he left shortly afterwards and for which he worked again in 1969. Times as a freelance draftsman and owner of his own drawing studio towards the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s were less successful for Verschueren. He retired from comics in the first half of the 1970s and has been in advertising ever since. Verschueren died in 1982 of complications from cancer.
literature
- Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 446
Web links
- Literature by and about Karel Verschuere in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karel Verschuere at lambiek.net (English)
- Karel Verschuere at comicguide.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Verschuere, Karel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian comic book artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borgerhout |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1982 |