Raymond Leblanc

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Raymond Leblanc
Born(1915-05-22)22 May 1915
Comic book publisher, film producer
Notable works
The Adventures of Tintin
AwardsAlph-Art d'Honneur prize (2003)
www.fondationrleblanc.be

Raymond Leblanc (French:

Belvision Studios
.

Biography

Raymond Leblanc was a resistance fighter during the

Mouvement National Royaliste (MNR) group.[1][2][3]
When the war ended in 1945, Leblanc set up new offices at 55, Rue du Lombard, establishing his publishing house, Le Lombard. Years later after Leblanc's retirement, he explained in an interview the beginnings of the Tintin legacy. On the subject of creating a new magazine for young people, he said, "We thought this was an interesting idea, and started looking for a name. We ended up eventually with Tintin, Hergé’s comic book hero. Literally everyone knew that character at that moment. The question however was, where was Hergé?"[3]

The Adventures of Tintin creator Hergé, having worked for the collaborationist newspaper Le Soir, was out of a job and even denied the right to work.[1][a] Leblanc arranged a meeting with Hergé, understood his dilemma, and saw an opportunity. Leblanc offered to clear Hergé's name and, that settled, offered him a new publishing venue for The Adventures of Tintin: the opportunity to continue to serialise his title in Leblanc's new weekly 12-page, comics journal, Le journal de Tintin (Tintin magazine), the first project of Le Lombard.

Franco-Belgian comics on a weekly basis, some appearing in Hergé's signature ligne claire style.[1]

The years 1954 and 1956 saw Leblanc launching two other creative ventures: the advertising agency PubliArt, a publicity division of Le Lombard using comics characters in its projects, and

Belvision Studios, which produced short and full-length animated films for television and cinema.[4]

Belvision Studios

Belvision Studios
Company typeEntertainment
Industry
movies
Websitehttp://www.belvision.be/fictions.html

Belvision Studios is a

Franco-Belgian comics series such as Tintin, Asterix and Lucky Luke
. Belvision rose to become a major animation studio, producing such works as Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, Pinocchio in Outer Space, Tintin and the Temple of the Sun, Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (which he directed), and Les Voyages de Gulliver.[4]

Selected works created and produced by Belvision

Animated TV series

Animated feature films

Animated shorts

Later years

Leblanc continued to helm new projects at his companies until his retirement. He sold them to French buyers in 1986.[3][4]

He received the Alph-Art d'Honneur prize in 2003 at the 30th annual Angoulême International Comics Festival, in Angoulême, France, for his contribution to the Franco-Belgian comics industry. (See photo of Leblanc accepting the honour, age 87.)[5] Leblanc died aged 92 on 21 March 2008 in

Brussels, Belgium.[2][3][4]

Selected works created and produced by Belvision

Animated TV series

Animated feature films

Animated shorts

Notes

  1. ^ Hergé had been sacked, arrested, cleared of charges, released, and then denied the right to work. The Adventures of Tintin serial had been interrupted near the end of The Seven Crystal Balls, on page 49; page 50 would be the first page published in Tintin magazine, eighteen months later.[1]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-84854-672-1
    .
  2. ^ a b "Tintin publisher Raymond Leblanc dies at 92". The Economic Times. 22 March 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2008.
  3. ^ a b c d "'Tintin' Publisher Raymond Leblanc Dies at 92". ComicMix.com. Tertiary source. 22 March 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2008.
  4. ^ a b c d "Tintin publisher Raymond Leblanc dies". CBC News. 22 March 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2008.
  5. ^ "Angoulême 2003 : une remise des prix sous le signe de la bonne humeur" [Angoulême 2003: a prize under the sign of a good mood]. Auracan.com (in French). Belgium. 22 March 2008. Retrieved 24 March 2008.

External links

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