René Follet

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René Follet (born April 10, 1931 in Brussels ; † March 14, 2020 there ) was a Belgian comic artist .

Life

René Follet was still in school when he was asked for the first illustrations. He received further orders from the scout magazines Plein Jeu and Scouts de France . He also worked for Spirou and Tintin . Most of the works of the time were illustrations or short stories.

It was not until 1967 that René Follet started with longer comic series. He worked several times with Yvan Delporte , Jacques Stoquart and André-Paul Duchâteau . He helped MiTacq in Jacques Le Gall and Stany Derval, and assisted William Vance in Bob Morane , Bruce J. Hawker and Marshal Blueberry . He regularly alternated his work as a comic artist with that as an illustrator.

Works

  • 1951: Uncle Paul
  • 1953: Rocky Bill
  • 1956: Peggy
  • 1967: Alain Brisant
  • 1971: Les Zingari
  • 1974: Ivan Zourine
  • 1975: Steve Séverin
  • 1981: Valhardi
  • 1982: L'Iliade
  • 1986: Edmund Bell
  • 1991: Daddy
  • 1995: Ikar
  • 1996: Les autos de l'aventure
  • 2002: wax figures
  • 2005: Shelena
  • 2007: L'étoile du soldat
  • 2010: L'affaire Dominici
  • 2013: Stevenson, le pirate intérieur
  • 2016: The journeys of Odysseus

honors and awards

literature

  • Jozef Peeters: René Follet: Un rêveur sédentaire. Editions l'Âge d'Or, Charleroi, 2007, ISBN 978-2-9600464-6-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le décès de René Follet. In: Ligne Claire. March 14, 2020, accessed on March 15, 2020 (French). Arte, addio al fumettista René Follet. In: rainews.it . March 14, 2020, accessed March 15, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Philippe Magneron: Follet, René. In: bedetheque.com. Retrieved March 15, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ René Follet. In: Lambiek . January 9, 2014, accessed March 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Follet, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ref (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2020
Place of death Brussels