Jijé

Joseph Gillain alias Jijé ( born January 13, 1914 in Gedinne, † 19 June 1980 ) was a Belgian comic book artist.

Career

Joseph Gillain grew up with seven siblings. From 1928 he attended the Ecole des Métiers d'art, an arts and crafts school in Maredsous, a convent near Namur. From 1931 to 1932 he worked in a motorcycle factory and attended evening classes in drawing at the University of Charleroi. Gillain where she learned the painter Gustave Camus know. From 1932 to 1933 he studied in Brussels at the l' école de la Cambre in the day and at the Académie des Beaux -Arts in the evening.

On April 12, 1937 Joseph Gillain married his longtime girlfriend, Annie Rodric, the sister of Marcel Rodric, a classmate of Maredsous. Marcel was in 1933 died at the age of 18 years in an accident, which resulted in a very close relationship between Joseph and Annie.

Joseph Gillain worked as an illustrator for various publishers and projects, until he recorded in 1935 for the magazine Le Croisé. There he created the short-lived series Jojo. His second series was Blondin et Cirage, which he published in Petits Belges. In 1939 he began to work for the new magazine Spirou. Since the previously published American comics were no longer available due to the prohibition of the German occupying forces, now recorded Velter Robert (Rob - Vel ) and Jijé how Joseph Gillain now called, most of the content. The series Spirou and Fantasio, he took all of Rob - Vel, and created his own series Jean Valhardi and biographies of Don Bosco and Christopher Columbus. Among other things, he was also short episodes replacement for Superman stories.

After the war he started on a comic version of the Gospels to work. The work on Spirou he handed to Franquin, Valhardi Eddy Paape and René Follet, and Blondin et Cirage to Hubinon. In 1949 he recorded the biography of Don Bosco from scratch. This revised version is considered one of the best comic book biographies.

After 1950 Jijé worked on new adventures of Jean Valhardi and Blondin et Cirage, he launched the new Western series Jerry Spring. He also began work on the biographies of Robert Baden -Powell and Charles de Foucauld. Since his last works were not published in the form of albums, he left Dupuis toward Dargaud, where he took Tanguy and Laverdure. In Pilote he jumped into Lieutenant Blueberry and The Crimson Pirate as a substitute signer. Despite illness, he later took over yet The Crimson Pirate.

Works

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2010: Jijé ... Un artiste Walloon au service de la bande dessinée, Provincial Museum of Ancient Arts NAMUROIS in Jambes
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