Bogusław Polch

Bogusław Polch
Born	(1941-10-05)5 October 1941
Died	2 January 2020(2020-01-02) (aged 78)
Nationality	Polish
Area(s)	Artist
Notable works	Die Götter aus dem All (Bogowie z kosmosu / Ekspedycja), Funky Koval, Wiedźmin (The Witcher), Jan Tenner, Kapitan Żbik
Collaborators	Maciej Parowski, Jacek Rodek, Andrzej Sapkowski, Arnold Mostowicz, Alfred Górny, Ryszard Siwanowicz

Bogusław Polch act. Połch (5 October 1941 – 2 January 2020) was a Polish

He was born in 1941 in Łyszczyce near Brest (currently Belarus). In 1967 he graduated from the Public High School of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he attended same classes together with Grzegorz Rosiński.

Comic books

His career started in 1958 by publishing two short stories Wyprawa via kosmos and Słoneczny rejs przygody in Korespondent Wszędobylski magazine. His first professional comic book was "Złoty" Mauritius published in 1970, part of the popular Kapitan Żbik series. Bogusław was referred to a publisher by Grzegorz Rosiński who created some of the previous parts. By 1975 Bogusław was responsible for seven comic books for the series and moved on to author Spotkanie (Encounter), a sci-fi story written by Ryszard Siwanowicz, published in 1976 in the Relax magazine (where Grzegorz Rosiński was a chief editor).

The turning point of his career was authoring The Gods from Outer Space inspired by Erich von Däniken books, when yet again he was referred to Econ Verlag (ordering party) and Bastei Verlag (publisher) by Grzegorz Rosiński. Between 1978 and 1982 he created a series of eight comic books written by Arnold Mostowicz and Alfred Górny that ultimately got published in twelve different languages and sold in millions of copies worldwide. In 1982 he created a comic book ordered by a UNESCO Fair Play Committee Rycerze Fair Play (Fair Play Knights) that ultimately got only published in Poland in 1986. Following this brief episode in 1982 Bogusław began his cooperation with Maciej Parowski (godfather of the Polish sci-fi scene) and Jacek Rodek on Funky Koval, the comic book that became his personal favourite. In 1984-1985 he created a series of four comic books Jan Tenner.

Between 1987 and 1992 a series of three