Marc Wasterlain
Marc Wasterlain (born June 29, 1946 in Erquelinnes ) is a Belgian comic author and illustrator.
Artistic career
After Wasterlain had completed a two-year training course in comics and animation at the Center des Arts Décoratifs in Brussels , he joined Dino Attanasio's studio around 1965 . There he assisted Attanasio in particular in his series Johnny Goodbye and Gianni Flash . With Alerte soucoupe he also wrote a scenario for the series Mausi and Paul. In 1967, Wasterlain became an employee of Peyo and assisted him in his series The Smurfs , Johann and Pfiffikus and Benni Bärenstark until 1972 . At the same time, he drew La Patrouille de l'Espace, a short story for Samedi Jeunesse magazine , in 1971 . In the same year he drew the mini-récit Capitaine Plouf et Pample le mousse for Spirou based on a scenario by Jacques Devos .
1971 appeared with Bob Moon et Titania Wasterlains first own series in Tintin . Bob Moon and Titania are two children who experience adventures on the moon and Mars, among other places. In 1973 Wasterlain also created the Monsieur Bonhomme series for Tintin . Since Wasterlain was made to understand that he was not interested in publishing his series as albums, he switched to Spirou magazine in 1975 , for which he developed the Docteur Poche series in 1976 after various smaller jobs . Docteur Poche is, as the name of the series suggests, a doctor, but also a magician. Together with the teacher Mademoiselle Zoé, he experiences imaginative adventures that lead him into space (in the two-part film La planète des chats and Le géant qui posait des questions ). Docteur Poche was published in Spirou until 1989 . The material was collected by Dupuis in nine albums. After that, Wasterlain switched to Casterman with his series . There were five more album-length stories. Since Casterman wanted to reach a younger audience with the series, Wasterlain put the children Mimi and Nicolas aside in the five new stories of the main character.
Parallel to Docteur Poche , Wasterlain also wrote and drew the adventures of reporter Jeannette Pointu for Spirou from 1982 onwards . In this, alongside Docteur Poche, Wasterlain's second major major work, the main character ends up in almost all crisis areas on earth. In addition, women from various peoples and cultures are portrayed in a total of 12 short stories (collected in the albums Femmes Massaïs and Les Amazones ). The series appeared in Spirou until 2005 .
From 1985 Wasterlain also worked for Okapi magazine at the request of Jean-Claude Forest . For this magazine he drew the Gil et Georges series . Up to 1991 five album-long stories were created here, of which only the first three were published as albums. From 1990 to 1992, Wasterlain continued to design the Ratapoil series of gags for Marsu Productions about a sports-loving anthropomorphic dog. From 1994 to 1995 he also drew the short-lived series Yvan et Wanda about two circus children for Astrapi magazine . Wasterlain's newest own series is Les Pixels .
Marc Wasterlain as a scriptwriter
Occasionally Wasterlain works as a scenarioist for other authors. For Arthur Piroton he wrote a story for the Jess Long series with Silicium Valley in 1987 . For MiTacq he wrote two scenarios for his series The Blue Panthers ( Le calvaire du mort pendu and Torrents sur mesin ) from 1988–1990 . For François Walthéry he wrote L'île d'outre-monde (1983) and Natacha et les dinosaures (1998) for his series Natascha, among others .
From 1991, Wasterlain also wrote the scenarios for more than 150 mostly four- and eight-page short stories with the Smurfs , which were then implemented in drawings by Studio Peyo.
German-language publications
1988-1989 Carlsen published the first four volumes by Jeannette Pointu under the title Monika Morell . The fifth volume was published by Epsilon in 2009. In 1989 comicplus + published the first two volumes by Gil et Georges under the title Das Kleeblatt . The first two volumes of Docteur Poche were published by Feest Verlag from 1990 to 1991 under the title Doktor Poche .
Wasterlain's stories with the Smurfs, written in the 1990s, were published by Bastei in The Smurfs magazine.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Marc Wasterlain in an interview with Eric Poelaert, in: Wasterlain-Une monograph
- ^ Bdoubliees: Bob Moon
- ↑ bdoubliees: Bonhomme
- ^ Bdoubliees: Docteur Poche
- ↑ bedetheque: Docteur Poche
- ↑ Marc Wasterlain on his homepage ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Bdoubliees: Jeannette Pointu
- ↑ a b Gilles Ratier, in: Wasterlain-Une monograph
- ↑ bedetheque: Gil et Georges
- ↑ bedetheque: Ratapoil
- ↑ bedetheque: Les Pixels
- ↑ Comic Guide: Marc Wasterlain
- ↑ Comic Guide: The Smurfs
Web links
- Gilles Ratier: Marc Wasterlain, on BDZoom (French)
- Lambiek: Marc Wasterlain (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wasterlain, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Refreshing |