Jacques Van Melkebeke

Jacques Van Melkebeke ( born December 12, 1904 in Brussels, † June 8, 1983 ) was a Belgian comic book writer.

Career

Jacques Van Melkebeke attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he met Jacques Laudy. He worked as a painter and art teacher, and began in 1940 with Hergé and Paul Jamin to work for the youth supplement of Le Soir. The activities under German occupation in 1947 led to his premature resignation as editor in chief of Tintin.

He provided material for the stories of Tintin Tintin and wrote with aux Indes ou le mystère du diamant bleu and Monsieur Boullock a disparu two plays that premiered in 1941 and 1942. At the premiere of the first piece he made Hergé known with his childhood friend Edgar P. Jacobs.

By the end of his life he remained faithful to painting and writing. His collaboration on series such as Tintin, Blake and Mortimer, Corentin and Hassan et Kaddour was not aware of that readership.

The appearance of Professor Mortimer Blake and Mortimer is Jacques Van Melkebeke modeled.