Luc Bermar

Henri Gillain (* 1913 in Gedinne ; † August 10, 1999 ), pseudonyms Luc Bermar and Jean Darc , was a Belgian comic book author .

Live and act

Henri Gillain worked as a teacher in Namur in the late 1940s and was in close contact with the studio community of young cartoonists who were living in the house of the comic artist Jijé near Waterloo at that time . One day he presented André Franquin with a thick notebook with a story about an eccentric inventor who brews mysterious miracle potions from mushroom extracts. The idea had come to Gillain when, while supervising a written paper in a school class, he had looked at a display board for biology class on which all native mushroom species were shown. Franquin was taken with the idea and developed the plot for his first album-length Spirou and Fantasio adventure, Der Zauberer von Rummelsdorf . In order not to get the teacher Gillain into trouble, he was named as the author of the episode under the pseudonym "Jean Darc".

In 1952 Gillain wrote another comic scenario for an adventure by Tif and Tondu (English: Harry and Platte ): Le trésor d'Alaric , which was realized by Willy Maltaite , another illustrator from his brother's circle. On this occasion, Gillain used the pseudonym Luc Bermar for the first time. Until the mid-1950s, occasional editorial articles appeared in Spirou magazine under this name . A few years later, Henri Gillain contributed to the creation of the comic series Sandy et Hoppy by Willy Lambil and was also co-author of the scenario for the first adventure. In addition, Henri Gillain occasionally wrote novels for the magazines Bonnes Soirées and Femmes d'aujourd'hui as well as reports for various Belgian newspapers. He usually used his pseudonym Jean Darc.

Web links

• CV on the website of Dupuis Verlag (French)