Raymond Leblanc

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Raymond Leblanc (born May 22, 1915 in Neufchâteau ; † March 21, 2008 in Brussels ) was a Belgian comic book publisher , film producer and film director . The best-known works he published were Tintin by Hergé and Blake and Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs . He was also the founder of Le Lombard Publishing , Tintin Magazine , PubliArt and Belvision Film Studios.

Life

Leblanc was a resistance fighter in World War II and belonged to the Mouvement National Royaliste group. At the end of the war, he and two colleagues founded the publishing house Le Lombard at 55 rue du Lombard . A few years later, Leblanc became interested in Tintin, which had previously been published in the daily Le Soir . He asked Hergé to meet. Hergé agreed that Leblanc should from now on publish the stories in the magazine Tintin , which was founded on this . The first edition of Tintin appeared on September 26, 1946.

In 1954 and 1956 Leblanc started two further projects. One is PubliArt , a Le Lombard advertising agency that uses various comic characters, and the Belvision film studios. Well-known Belvision films are Hergé's adventures by Tintin , Tintin in the Temple of the Sun , Tintin and the Shark Lake and Pinocchio in l'espace .

Leblanc worked until his retirement. In 1986 he sold the publishing house and the film studios to a French buyer.

At the 30th Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême in 2003, he received the Alph-Art d'Honneur award . Leblanc died in Brussels at the age of 92.

literature

  • Bocquet (text), Fromental (text), Stanislas (drawings): The adventures of Hergé. Extended new edition. Carlsen, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-551-77665-5 . (French original edition: Les Aventures d´Hergé. Dargaud, Paris 2011)

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