Roger Leloup
Roger Leloup | |
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Born | Verviers, Belgium | 17 November 1933
Nationality | Belgian |
Area(s) | Artist, writer |
Notable works | Yoko Tsuno |
Awards | full list |
Roger Leloup (French: [ləlu]; born 17 November 1933) is a Belgian comic strip artist, novelist, and a former collaborator of Hergé, who would rely upon him to create detailed, realistic drawings and elaborate decoration for The Adventures of Tintin.[1] He is most famous for the Yoko Tsuno comic series.
Biography
Roger Leloup was born in
Jacques Martin was one of the main artists of the
Leloup worked for both Jacques Martin, with Alix and Lefranc, and for Hergé, but as the production at the Studios Hergé slowed down, and Leloup came into contact with other artists. He worked for a period with Francis, and also collaborated with Peyo on his less well-known series Jacky and Célestin. Here, he created a Japanese female character that would later become the inspiration for his own series.
On 31 December 1969, Leloup left Studios Hergé to work full-time on his own series, Yoko Tsuno, with a focus on technology and science fiction. The character Yoko Tsuno, a Japanese woman living in Brussels, is one of the leading examples of the female-fronted comics that appeared in the European juvenile magazines during this period. All Yoko Tsuno stories first appeared in Spirou magazine and later as an album series published by editions Dupuis.
He has an adopted Korean daughter, who inspired him to draw the character Morning Dew, the little Chinese girl from
Bibliography
- Yoko Tsuno, 1970–, 30 albums, ISSN 0772-0866
- Yoko Tsuno, 1970–, 30 albums,
Roger Leloup has also written two novels, including one featuring Yoko Tsuno:
- — (1989). Le pic des ténèbres. Travelling. Duculot. ISBN 2-8011-0812-X.
- — (1991). ISBN 2-8011-0990-8.
- — (1989). Le pic des ténèbres. Travelling. Duculot.
Awards
- 1972, European SF special award for Belgian comics for Yoko Tsuno at the first Eurocon in Trieste, Italy[3]
- 1974: Prix Saint-Michel, Brussels, Belgium, for Best Comic
- 1990: Grand Prix de la Science Fiction Française, category "Youth", for his novel Le pic des ténèbres, France[4]
References
- Caluwaerts, Stephan and Taymans, André (2001). "Roger Leloup, à Propos de Yoko Tsuno". ISBN 2-930348-01-1
- List of Roger Leloup publications in Belgian Tintin, French Tintin and Spirou BDoubliées (in French)
Footnotes
- ^ a b Leloup biography at Dupuis website
- ^ a b c De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Roger Leloup". In België gestript, pp. 136–137. Tielt: Lannoo.
- ^ "Eurocon awards site". Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2006.
- ^ Winners of the Grand Prix de la SF Archived 4 December 2003 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
External links
- Roger Leloup biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
- Roger Leloup biography Dupuis
- Roger Leloup biography BDparadisio (in French)
- 1972 European Science Fiction Society At Eurocon: Trieste (1972) Leloup was recognised for Yoko Tsuno