Raymond Reding

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Raymond Reding (born February 23, 1920 in Louviers , France , † April 26, 1999 in Anderlecht , Belgium ) was a Belgian comic artist . He was best known for his sports series.

life and work

Born in France to a Belgian father and a French mother, Reding grew up in Belgium. Before turning to drawing and writing, he had various jobs, including as a newspaper boy and jazz pianist. From 1944 he worked for the magazine Bravo! for which he wrote stories that he illustrated himself.

In 1950, Reding joined the editorial team of Tintin magazine . He had published his first comics a few years earlier in the newspaper supplement Récréation . Reding, who had also drawn for Spirou magazine in the 1950s, had his first major success with the tennis series Jari , which was published from 1957 and also appeared in album form from 1960. With the series Vincent Larcher , which appeared from 1963, he turned to the subject of football. With Section R , a series about two top athletes who have worked as journalists and detective after their sports career, Reding created another sports comic in 1971.

In the German-speaking countries, Reding was already represented in the children's magazine Pony at the end of the 1950s , and various Reding comics were published in the comic magazine Zack in the 1970s . The series Juri appeared as Bert in Bastei-Verlag . Reding also released four albums in German by Koralle-Verlag at the beginning of the 1980s and between 2008 and 2012 Salleck Publications fifteen albums of the football comic Kai Falke . Its title character was created on the occasion of the soccer world championship in Germany in 1974 for the comic magazine Zack (a Dutch edition of this first story appeared as an album under the title Max Falk ). In 1979 the series was resumed with a slightly revised concept. Reding now worked in collaboration with Françoise Hugues. The Dutch edition now appeared under the title Ronnie Hansen , in France it appeared as Eric Castel .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Raymond Reding on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on March 9, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 373.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Raymond Reding on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 9, 2014
  4. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued. Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 171.
  5. ↑ a b Raymond Reding on comicguide.de , accessed on August 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Reding, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Louviers , France
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1999
Place of death Anderlecht , Belgium