Philippe Vandevelde

Philippe Vandevelde, working under the pseudonym Tome (24 February 1957 – 5 October 2019

Vandevelde was born in Brussels. An operation left him blind for a short while at the age of eight. His first experiences of comics were the Adventures of Tintin story King Ottokar's Sceptre and Corentin read aloud to him.^[3] Under the pseudonyms "Phil" and "Tom", he published his first illustrations and comics for the school magazine Buck (made by Thierry Groensteen) from 1972 to 1974. His first comic was a medieval parody Estrel, le troubadour.

Tome began his professional comics career in the studio of

• 1992: Humour Award and Youth Award (9–12 years) at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France^[4]
• 2000: nominated for Best German-language Comic for Children and Young People at the
  Max & Moritz Prizes, Germany

- nominated for the Best Scenario Award and the Youth Award (9–12 years) at the Angoulême International Comics Festival

• 2002: nominated for Best International Writer at the Max & Moritz Prizes

Bibliography

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• Spirou et Fantasio
• Le Petit Spirou
• Soda
• "Feux"
• "Sur la Route de Selma"
• "Berceuse Assassine"
• "Les Minoukini"
• "Le Gang Mazda"

Footnotes

1. ^ "Philippe Tome".
2. ^ "Belgische stripscenarist van De Kleine Robbe en Robbedoes, Philippe 'Tome' Vandevelde, overleden". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). 6 October 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Tome".
4. ^ "Le Palmarès 1992". ToutEnBD (in French). Archived from the original on 25 June 2007.

Sources

• Tome publications in Spirou BDoubliées (in French)
• Tome albums Bedetheque (in French)

External links

• Tome biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia