Merry Rene

Rene Follet is a Illustrateur and a Belgian Dessinateur of Cartoon born the April 10th 1931 in Brussels.

Biography

Its beginnings

Towards the end of the war, Rene Follet is with the college St Michel.

Thanks to a father Jesuit with whom it study, and which knows the creator of Tintin by the Small one Twentieth, it at the time of meeting for the first time Hergé, which gives him councils and reassures it on its capacities to be drawn.

Always at the school, it illustrates accounts of adventures and war for magazine OK.

At age the 15 years, a friend of his father the met in relation to a small advertizing agency. It provides them crayonnés for a series of an about sixty chromos intended to illustrate the novel of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Island with the treasure, 6th album of the library of the chocolate Aiglon . These chromos which were in packing of the bars of chocolate, were collected by the children then stuck in an album.

The scoutes publications

It also draws for " Full Jeu" , the review of the scouts of Belgium directed by Jean-Jacques Schellens. This review made begin from many Belgian draftsmen: Franquin, Mitacq, Peyo, Will…

It is in the Belgian Boy-scout , the predecessor of Full Play, that Hergé creates in 1926 Totor, CP of the Cockchafers.

He also works for " Scouts de France " , the review whose Pierre Joubert is the appointed illustrator.

In 1956, under the title Reflections of history on the law scoute , it illustrates under its pseudonym of ref., the various articles of the Loi scoute, throughout the 12 pages of the calendar of the Scouts Baden-Powell of Belgium .

Tintin and Spirou

In 1949, in a few months of interval, it starts has to provide in parallel drawings for Tintin and Spirou . Initially under the pseudonym of ref., then under its true name. This first work is illustrations for the editorial one, tales, or of the news, but very quickly appear the first boards of cartoons.

In 1951 initially, when Spirou lance True stories of the uncle Paul . The time of small ten accounts, it put at it in particular in image, the raft of the jellyfish , the trenches of the bayonets , Mozart … Some of these short accounts will be published in the collections taking again the best stories.

In Tintin then, where it draws authentic accounts in four boards, the house equivalent of the Beautiful stories of the uncle Paul , as well as complete little stories, of which the western Rocky Bill on scenario of Yves Duval.

At the time, the weekly magazines of STRIP CARTOONS, still regularly publish novels which are spread out sometimes over several months, and which are illustrated in turn by the various draftsmen of the newspaper. For Tintin they will be more than one ten novels which will be thus illustrated between 1952 and 1960.

For its first novel, it takes the continuation of Paul Cuvelier on the western Texas Slim of Artigues.

One can also note 2 novels on scenarios of Jean-Michel Charlier, Samurais of the black sun and especially Tempête in the West , a history of cow servant boys, whose intrigue will be re-used a few years later by Charlier for the first albums of the series Blueberry .

Merry will illustrate two novels for Spirou , on scenarios of Yves Legros (Xavier Snoeck). It will be in 1953, the companions of Amazonia , and in 1966, red Aile against Bételgeuse .

In 1962, he collaborates in another publication of the Dupuis editions, Bonnes Evenings , and realizes there under the pseudonym of ref., the illustrations for news and novels (of which the count of Monte Cristo in 48 booklets in collaboration with Jijé).

In 1977, it takes part in the illustrated Trombone (supplement SPIROU n°2032 and 2051) by illustrating 2 short tales of Fredric Brown ( condemned the ) and of Shin Ichi Hoshi ( Bokko-chan )

First illustrated books

In 1953, it finds Jean-Jacques Schellens, become meanwhile literary director of the editions Marabout, and it illustrates novels for their new collection dedicated to the teenagers: Marabout Junior.

For the editions Hatchet, it illustrates educational books on the training of French language.

Finally at Casterman, they are novels and biographies, for the collections All brothers , the albums of the golden age and the green branch .

Caravan

As from April 1958, two-monthly the Alive Africa , the review of the white Fathers missionaries, includes in its pages a new supplement color intended for young people: Caravan.

These pages contain with each number, one or two stories having for framework Africa: the bishop stealing , His child will die , hunting for the porcupine …

Merry will realize there during several tens of numbers, of superb illustrations full pages color, for the cover like for triple central page.

Crayonnés for Mitacq and Vance

Mitacq

With beginning of the year 60, Mitacq draws two series of face, the Patrol of the Beavers in Spirou, and a new series more adult impetus in Pilote, Jacques Gall.

To manage to hold this very constant rate/rhythm of production of two boards per week, Mitacq will call regularly upon Rene Follet, less overloaded than him, which will help it while realizing crayonnés of boards.

This collaboration will start about 1963, with the 4th adventure of Gall, the black goddess , will continue on second half of the 5th album, the secrecy of the templiers , and finally in 1966 on 6th and the last Gall, the naufrageurs , or the first 20 pages are cosignées Follet + Mitacq.

When the series Jacques Gall stops, judged too traditional for the new formula of the newspaper Pilote, Mitacq lance then Stany Derval to defer television, in Spirou.

For the treasure of Montorgueil , the first history published in 1968, Follet realizes some crayonnés. In 1973 on gallops of the hell , it cosigne again with Mitacq boards 7 to 10, and 12 to 33.

The final inking of Mitacq on these various crayonnées boards, will not completely gum the work of Merry. Its style, the installations and attitudes of the characters, the faces, remain recognizable in spite of the work of setting to ink.

Vance

Merry Rene and Vance lived a long time the same district of Brussels, in Uccle, until the latter leaves to settle in Spain.

Their collaboration starts in the Seventies, on the series Bob Morane , Bruno Brazil , then later it will be Bruce J. Hawker and both Marshall Blueberry .

Merry provides crayonnés, drafts, preparatory studies for boxes.

Vance will work again these crayonnés, will change the composition, framing, which standardizes the style graphic of the album, but made disappear the contribution from Merry.

Contrary to Mitacq, these collaborations will never be mentioned in the albums.

The Dutch market

PEP

From 1964 to 1970 he collaborates regularly in a new Dutch weekly magazine of STRIP CARTOONS, PEP. He will carry out there illustrations for accounts, including 2 illustrations of novels of Jack London: the Call of the forest and Pittah the gray wolf .

EPPO

Then of 1975 to 1982, he works for Dutch weekly magazine EPPO. He will create there Steven Severijn which to date remains its more long series of STRIP CARTOONS since it counts 9 albums, scenarized successively by Yvan Delporte, Jacques Stoquart and Gerald Soeteman.

The first 3 albums will be published by Glénat, but the 6 last remain always new to date in French. It is about Of dertiende valk (the 13th falcon), Of jacht van of E-5 (the hunting of E-5), Of dochter van of grootvorst (the girl of the large-duke), Rozen voor Mata Hari (pinks for Mata Hari), cirkel DER gerechtigheid (the circle of justice) and Cowboys in Maffia (Cowboys and Maffias).

Steven Severijn will stop when Follet realizes of little the success which the series meets near the public.

Publications

Complete bibliography

Illustrations

Merry Rene with carried out many covers and illustrations for adventures of Bob Morane, like for the integral of Bob Morane, published by the editions Ananké and Lefrancq.

Covers

  • 1988 : Tiger Joe (Volume 1 the track of the ivory - Volume 2 the cemetery of the elephants - Volume 3 the mystery of the man-leopards of Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon (Ed.Lefrancq)
  • 1993: Bob Morane presents… Jules Verne volume 1 Voyage to the center of the ground data base by Luc Delisse and Claude Laverdure (MIKLO) accompanied by CD limited edition of presentation by Henri Vernes
  • 2004: Zombis/Room 312 (Bob Morane n°197) (ED. Ananké)
  • 2005: country of the 4 winds (ED of Old of gold) of Herbert (draftsman) and Charles Jadoul ( Spirou 1287-1308)
  • 2005: Four faded pinks (ED. Rounds in the O) of Curd Ridel

Cartoons

in albums

in reviews

  • Peggy, small bird without wings of Yves Duval (in the Week of Suzette of nov.56 in May 57)
  • Tom Sawyer in balloon of Mark Twain illustrations on posters inserted in Spirou n° 2202/2209 (1980)
  • Jean Valhardy - file X , scenario Andre-Paul Duchâteau in Spirou n° 2249/2250 (May 1981)
  • an adventure of Till mischievous the with Janssens in Spirou n°3228 (2000)
  • Cilia, the Madonna of the Favelas (6 pages) with Alcante and Gerard in Spirou n°3251 (Sept. 2002)

Participations

Others

  • small pocket of CD Bob Morane the jade mask (collection " the data base in CD" - edition " Happy Big Records/Lombard")
  • 1999: Post spectacle of Vincent Cuvellier: the Sea told me
  • 2001: Post short film of Patrice Bauduinet: Good Appetite
  • 2003: Post film of Carlos Alvarez: Two one-way ticket for Bobadilla
  • 2006: Post short film of Psyché Piras: Siren of the moon
  • 2006: small pocket of CD Jean-Sebastien Bach Triptych by the " unit; Cetra d' Orfeo" www.lacetra.com
  • 2007: small pocket of CD Folias Madnesses Baroques by the " unit; Cetra d' Orfeo" www.lacetra.com

Documentations

  • 1994 : Dream in bubble n°9, letter of Rene Follet

  • 1995: The letter of Dargaud n°25 (seven-Oct.) interview " an artist with nu"
  • 1999 : Files of Cartoon (DBD) n° 3, interview by Frank EP
  • 2002: Bodoï n°57, Full fires on Merry
  • 2004: One walked on the Bubble n° 4, interview
  • 2005: Bodoï n° 88, Merry pasteurized, interview by Fabien Tillon

Rewards

External bonds

  • Interview of Merry Rene on BrusselsBdTour
  • Publications in Spirou
  • Price Sunflower for Ikar

Sources

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