Lambil

Willy Lambillote ( born May 16, 1936 in Tamines ) is a Belgian comic book artist, best known under the pseudonym Willy Lambil.

Life

After a year visited the Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, Lambil began as a 16- year-old from the publisher Dupuis with the lettering of comics.

At the age of 23 he took his first comic book in 1959 Sandy et Hoppy out. This series depicts the adventures of a boy and his kangaroos and was published in comic magazine Spirou. The series was published until 1974. It is located in French-speaking countries now also fully in albums form. In parallel with this series he drew from 1962 to 1963 five episodes of the series Uncle Paul and 1968-1973 the number Hobby et koala.

In 1972 he took over the series The Blue Boys (French: Les Bleues Tuniques ) after the artist Louis Salverius had died. Lambil finished the album Outlaw started in the caricature style Salverius; he himself gave the series but from the next album wisely a more realistic style. After the album Outlaw, he published from 1973 onwards, together with Raoul Cauvin 50 volumes of The Bluecoats in the regular rhythm of 8-14 months. The last time being published in October 2012 under the title " Dent pour dent " as Volume 56 of the series.

In 1973, he created the series with Cauvin Pauvre Lampil, caricatured in the Lambil themselves. Be addressed, the aches and pains of " Lampil ", as he calls himself in this series: his hypochondria, his sometimes difficult relationship with the lyricist Cauvin and the frustration of not being so well known and popular as other artists. These comics appeared in the magazine Spirou originally under the new heading Carte Blanche ( " The Blank Page " or " charter " ), to present both their best work in the new talents could publish unconventional short stories. Overall, published seven albums with mostly two-page gag comics.