Jean-Richard Geurts

Janry, actually Jean -Richard Geurts ( born October 2, 1957 in Jadotville, Belgian Congo ) is a Belgian comic book artist who, along with Thomas from 1984 ( Volume 31 The mysterious virus) to 1998 ( Volume 44 hunting Spirou ) the serial Spirou and Fantasio created.

Janry Tome learned during his studies at the Institut National des Arts Visuel in Sint Pieterswoluwe in Brussels know. Both had the opportunity to build up contacts with Dupa and Francis early. Janry worked as an assistant for series such as cubitus and created ink and background drawings. Even with Turk, Greg and Bob de Groot Janry could work with his friend as an assistant.

The work for the publishing house Dupuis began with the acquisition of puzzles and puzzle page of the magazine Spirou Jeureka. The page also drawings of the title character of the magazine were strewn about, they liked the person in charge so well that first short stories of Spirou and Fantasio have been commissioned. The first story in album length (46 pages) was virus, which was pre-published in 1982 in the magazine, and in 1984 appeared as an album. During the first volumes of Spirou and Fantasio Janry worked both as an illustrator and as a scriptwriter. Only with the return of the Z, he concentrated his task solely to the drawings.

With the band hunt for Spirou Janry In 1998, the success to date in the series character style radically. The characters were real-life, the drawings were rather dark kept as bright and cheerful. The scenario changed from Funny - style into an exciting crime story. This newly designed Spirou story led to discussions about whether a traditional comic should be modernized at all on such a scale. Readers divided into opponents and proponents of the new style. Tome and Janry devoted themselves then only the series The Little Spirou, which was a great success since 1987. The series sold more copies than the volumes of Spirou and Fantasio.