Jacques Laudy
Jacques Laudy , born the April 7th 1907 and deceased the July 28th 1993, was a painter and a Belgian draftsman of cartoon, author of the series Hassan and Kaddour and adaptations as a cartoon of literary works like the four wire Aymon, Rob Roy or David Balfour. This traditional draftsman, perpetuating a kind of illustrative graphics inspired by Arthur Rackham or Anton Pieck, was one of the founders of the Journal Tintin in 1946 with Hergé, Jacques Van Melkebeke, Edgar P. Jacobs and Paul Cuvelier. Its physique inspired with Edgar P. Jacobs the character of Francis Blake in the famous series of cartoon Blake and Mortimer.
It received the Grand Prix Saint-Michel (1974), the Prix of the " Pencil of Or", decreed by the CANAB (Circle of the friends of the ninth art of Brussels) (1993). It was high with the dignity of Knight of the Ordre of Léopold in 1991, then named Baron by the king Baudoin I {{er}}.
| Random links: | Primitivo geométrico | Vindey | Vespétro | McLaren MP4-17 | Éliane Viennot | Zembretta | George_Nixon |