Raoul Cauvin
Raoul Cauvin ( born September 26, 1938 in Antoing ) is a Belgian comic book writer.
Life
After training as a Werbelithografen, a profession with no future, he completed his military service.
In 1960 he joined Dupuis with simple tasks, such as the drawing box at crossword puzzles. Shortly thereafter, he worked at the animation studios TVA, the Eddy Ryssack belonged, as a cameraman. In addition to creating the Smurfs movies Cauvin wrote scenarios with which he tried it at Dupuis to get a job for 7 years. His proposals were always rejected by Yvan Delporte.
Charles Dupuis was Cauvin but a chance to put his skills to the test. This also had the job at T.V.A. an end.
His breakthrough came with Louis Salverius, as both the series The Blue Boys (French: Les Bleues Tuniques ) in 1968 created. This series was intended as a replacement of Lucky Luke and first appeared on August 29, 1968 in the weekly magazine Spirou. Cauvin wrote to the death Salverius not just some one-pager and short stories, but also four volumes in which it comes to soldiers of the northern states during the American Civil War. Salverius used in the stories with a memorable comic style. The figures are not similar to the current, but more reminiscent of Ryssack or Franquin. The band Outlaw could not complete Salverius. He died on 22 May 1972. The unfinished adventure was completed by Willy Lambil, who took over the series in 1972, in the caricature style Salverius. The following volumes of the style is more realistic. So far 52 volumes have appeared at Dupuis.
In 1972, Cauvin created with Lambil the series Low Lampil (French Pauvre Lampil ) with the cartoonist Lambil as the main character. These comics appeared in the magazine Spirou under the new heading Carte Blanche ( The free side ). With the introduction of these two sides of young talent was given the opportunity to both showcase their best work, as well as to publish unconventional short stories. In addition to the regular cast in the magazine Spirou these short stories were published in France in seven volumes.
In addition to the comics listed above Cauvin wrote the following series:
- Since 1970 Sammy ( Berck / Jean-Pol / Cauvin ) Sammy and Jack, 39 volumes
- 1979-1987 Boulouloum et Guiliguili / Les Jungles perdues ( Mazel / Cauvin ) King & Kong, 10 volumes
- Since 1979 Les grandes amours contrariées ( Bercovici / Cauvin ) the sick sisters, 30 volumes
- 1980/1981 Spirou et Fantasio (Nicolas Broca / Cauvin ) Spirou and Fantasio, 3 volumes
- Since 1981, L' Agent 212 ( Kox / Cauvin ) Your friend and helper, 26 volumes
- Since 1983 Pierre Tombal ( Hardy / Cauvin ) Pierre Tombal, 24 volumes
- Since 1992, Les Psy ( Bédu / Cauvin ) the Psy, 14 volumes