Willy Maltaite alias Will , (Anthée, on October 30th, 1927 - February 18th, 2000) is a Dessinateur and Scénariste of Cartoon and Belgian painter .

Brief biography

As of its more young age, Willy Maltaite draws. It enters at the beginning of the Années 1940 in training at Joseph Gillain (Jijé), one of the pillars of Spirou , which will become his/her large friend.

In 1946, Jijé, in addition to Will, point of disjunction at his place Morris and Franquin, two young authors still little known but whose Gillain had known to detect the strong potential. Will, impressed, decides to follow their example and to be put at the cartoon. It is first of all published in Bonnes evenings and the Mosquito .

Charles Dupuis, while having refused several projects to him, entrusts to him the destinies of the series Tif and Tondu , which it animates until 1990 at the sides of Fernand Dineur, Maurice Rosy, Maurice Tillieux and Stephen Desberg. In addition to its work on this series, it helps Franquin (decorations of the pirates of silence ), Peyo (decorations of Benoît Brisefer and drawing of Jacky and Célestin ). It also occupies of the stations of person in charge: artistic director of the Tintin newspaper of 1958 to 1960 and director of the collection Carousel at Dupuis of 1966 to 1969.

But it does not make only take again existing series: in 1962 it launches Eric and Artimon (with Vicq with the scenario) and in 1970 Isabelle (Franquin and Yvan Delporte with the texts).

From 1989, it changes register, turning to a drawing where the color plays an importance increasingly large and ceasing drawing only for the children. It thus produces for the Free collection Aire the garden of the desires and the 27e letter with Stephen Desberg. He dies in 2000 without to have finished the two spring old tree (scenario of Rudi Miel).

Will is also a painter with whole share. Fauvist, expressionnist, he plays sensuellement with the matters and the colors.

Hair and Tondu

Will was essential thanks to this series where its very traditional Franco-Belgian drawing made fly. The large majority of the stories which it drew were taken again in albums.

Other works

• Isabelle , 12 albums with Andre Franquin, Raymond Macherot and Yvan Delporte (scenario), Dupuis, 1972-1995.
• the Island of in addition to-world , Natacha n°10 (decorations), with François Walthéry (drawing) and Marc Wasterlain (scenario), Dupuis, 1980.
• Participation in the collective He was once the Belgians , Lombard, 1980.
• “the ogress of the carpartes”, with Yann (scenario), in the marvellous Stories of the uncles Paul , Vents of West, 1986.
• the garden of the desires , with Stephen Desberg (scenario), Dupuis, coll “Surface Free”, 1988.
• the 27e letter , with Stephen Desberg (scenario), Dupuis, coll “Free Surface”, 1990.
• the call of the hell , with Stephen Desberg, P&T Productions, 1993.
• “Isabelle” in the collective Brel n°2, Winds of Ouests, 1997.
• the two spring old tree , with Rudi Honey (scenario), Lombard, “Signed” coll, 2000. Will could draw only 4 pages of this history before dying. The work was continued by Batem, Stephan Colman, Dany, Derib, Jean-Claude Fournier, Frank EP, Franz, André Geerts, Marc Hardy, Rene Hausman, Hermann, Frank Gall, Régis Loisel, Eric Maltaite, Jean-Claude Mézières, Michel Plessix, Jean Roba, François Walthéry and Marc Wasterlain.

See too

• a rather complete site

• Bibliography of Will on the site of the Dupuis editions.

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