Jacques Martin (comics)

Jacques Martin ( born September 25, 1921 in Strasbourg, France, † 21 January, 2010 Pully, Switzerland ) was a French cartoonist.

Career

As a child, Jacques Martin discovered his passion for pictures and stories. After school, he studied at the Arts et Métiers, where he received a technical education and engineering was. As an Alsatian, he was forced to work for the Third Reich. Due to its graphic training, he was sent to the engineering department of the Dornier works in Friedrichshafen, where he worked on the development of propellers for aircraft.

After the war, Martin traveled with his drawing board through Belgium and France, and was looking at various editors for work. He worked in various parts of the graphic profession and invented in this period, the Comics Monsieur Barbichou, Grey Owl and partridge eye. However, his design for a Baptist youth magazine found no supporters, it would have no chance against the same time appearing first issue of the magazine Tintin, in which the adventures of Tintin have been printed, had.

Later Jacques Martin has worked very successfully for the magazine Tintin. 1948 saw the first based in the ancient epic Alix.

In 1952, Martin then the beginning of the series Lefranc to German L. Frank. 1953 appeared La Grande Menace to German: The Great threat. The adventurous story is rightly considered comic classic. The masterfully staged action is a mix between detective story, political reportage and science fiction.

Martin 1953 freelance cartoonist Georges Remi the famous, better known as Hergé. In 1959, he stepped firmly into the Hergé Studios, where he German The Calculus Affair, cooperated in the Tintin adventures from L'Affaire Tournesol, too. In the next few years, he and the artist Edgar P. Jacobs and Bob de Moor, the creative minds at the Tintin comics. Thanks to his constant creativity managed Martin besides still to continue his two successful series and so appeared during this period seven Alix and three L. Frank stories. In his last years, Hergé's Martin was even at the right hand of the master and the majority of the last Tintin editions had created, during which Hergé contented himself to supervise the work.

In 1982 there was a dispute between Jacques Martin and Hergé. He threw Hergé before a certain selfishness and felt very pushed into the background in his work. In 1983 Hergé died and the following year, Martin moved for tax reasons in Switzerland. There he continued his work and established an annual an applicable international Comic Arts Festival.

Up to 1992, he increased his pace of work and then presents a further nine Alix and four L. Frank adventure finished. 1984, fulfilled his long-cherished dream. He created the series Jhen, the other a branch in medieval France at the time of the infamous Gilles de Rais story he recorded together with Jean Pleyers. Along with André Juillard Martin also developed the comic Arno, a gambling in the era of the Napoleonic Wars History.

In 1991 he developed two other historical series: Orion and Ceos. For Ceos Martin, however, was only responsible for the lyrics. Both series have as Alix antiquity to the background and worked her example in part very similar. The popularity of the figure of Alix he also used to enter the rides of Alix (Les Voyages d' Alix ) also younger readers to bring the everyday life of the ancient world of the 1st century BC closer.

In 2000, in honor of the 80th birthday of Jacques Martin, the Brussels Centre Belge de la bande dessinée organized a highly acclaimed retrospective.

Due to his advanced age, attacked Martin in recent years to work on his comics and more often to help younger colleagues back. In the past Alix volumes he wrote only the synopses and left drawing the Spaniard Rafael Morales. However, Jacques Martin remained unbroken creative power with more than 80 years. Since 2002, new L. Frank albums are planned or already in progress. The artist Bernard Capo is available for drawing available. In addition, the plans for another series called Lois, who will have the time of Louis XIV to the topic, already well advanced, Olivier Paques will illustrate this work.

In contrast to Martin Hergé was keen that his series will be even after his departure from the drawing board, continued. This also explains why he tried to introduce new and talented artist in his series.

The trademarks Jacques Martin were, especially in his middle period, his very detailed drawings and exciting storylines. A correct historical account, however, was, for the most part, left with the exception of the cultural framework in favor of the action except eight. Nevertheless, his comics have good quality entertainment.

Works

  • Alix (1948-2005)
  • L. Frank (1952-2007)
  • Jo, Jette and Jocko (1954 )
  • The Adventures of Tintin (1954-1967)
  • Jhen (1978-2000)
  • Arno (1983-1997)
  • Orion (1990-1998)
  • Ceos (1991-1999)
  • Lois (2003)
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