Roger Leloup

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Roger Leloup (born November 17, 1933) is a Belgian comic strip scenarist and writer of the series Yoko Tsuno and a former collaborator of Hergé.

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[edit] Biography

Roger Leloup is born in Verviers, Belgium in 1933.[1] He is fascinated by trains and planes since his youth. He studies Decoration and Publicity at the Institut Saint-Luc in Liège. By accident, he gets in contact with the Franco-Belgian comics scene when his neighbour, Jacques Martin, tells him that he desperately needs a colourist. Leloup gets the job and starts colouring the Alix album L'ïle maudite in 1950.[1]

Jacques Martin is one of the main artists of the magazine Tintin, and when Hergé is looking for someone to help him with the drawings of vehicles for some didactic series he is making, Martin brings him in contact with Leloup. From February 15, 1953 on, Leloup worked for many years at the Hergé studios, where he drew detailed backgrounds and vehicles for the comics series The Adventures of Tintin. His work can e.g. be seen in the drawings of the Genève-Cointrin airport in The Calculus Affair. He was responsible for the design of the impressive Carreidas swing-wing supersonic business jet in Flight 714.[1]

Leloup now works both for Jacques Martin, for Alix and Lefranc, and for Hergé. But the production at the Studios Hergé slows down, and Leloup gets into contact woth other artists. He works for a while with Francis (comics) and also collaborates with Peyo for his less well known series Jacky and Célestin. Here, he creates a Japanese female character that would become the inspiration for his own series.

December 31, 1969, Leloup leaves the Studios Hergé to work fulltime on his own series, Yoko Tsuno, focusing on technology and science fiction. Yoko Tsuno, a Japanese woman living in Brussels, is one of the leading examples of the female-fronted comics that appear in the European juvenile magazines in this period. All stories appear first in Spirou magzine and then as a comic album with the editions Dupuis.

Roger Leloup has also written two novels, including one about Yoko Tsuno:

He has an adopted Korean daughter, who inspired him to draw the character Morning Dew, the little Chinese girl from Le Dragon de Hong Kong who was adopted by Yoko Tsuno.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Yoko Tsuno, 1970-..., 24 albums, Dupuis

[edit] Awards

  • 1972, European SF special award for Belgian comics for Yoko Tsuno at the first Eurocon in Trieste, Italy [2]
  • 1974: Best Comic at the Prix Saint-Michel, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1990: Grand Prix de la Science Fiction Française, category "Youth", for his novel Le pic des ténèbres, France[3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Roger Leloup". In België gestript, pp. 136-137. Tielt: Lannoo.
  2. ^ Eurocon awards site
  3. ^ Winners of the Grand Prix de la SF (French)

[edit] Source

Caluwaerts, Stephan and Taymans, André (2001). "Roger Leloup, à Propos de Yoko Tsuno". ISBN 2-930348-01-1

[edit] External links

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