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Illustrator, Cartoonist, Scriptwriter of comics
Born Jean Roba
Belgian comics author
Born on July 28, 1930 in Schaerbeek, Bruxelles-Capitale , Belgium
Died on June 14, 2006 in Bruxelles, Bruxelles Capitale , Belgium
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Jean Roba (28 July 1930 – 14 June 2006) was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.
... Jean Roba (28 July 1930 – 14 June 2006) was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.
Biography
Jean Roba was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium. In his youth, he was a reader of French magazines like Robinson and Mickey, which featured mainly American comics. One of those that was especially influential on Roba was Katzenjammer Kids. After working as an illustrator for different magazines and publicity agencies, he started to work as an illustrator for Spirou magazine in 1957, where he made small cartoons for the front page for a few years. He also worked on Bonnes Soirées, another magazine from the same publisher Dupuis, where he continued the series Sa majesté mon mari after Albert Uderzo stopped. For Spirou, he made a few short stories with Yvan Delporte and collaborated on different stories of Spirou et Fantasio with André Franquin, who taught him the basics of making comics, before starting his own main series Boule et Bill in 1959, initially with stories by Maurice Rosy. Next to this series of mainly one-page comics, he started in 1962 La Ribambelle about a group of kids from various countries and racial backgrounds.
Roba was both an artist and writer, and wrote most of his own gags for Boule et Bill, while others contributed stories for La Ribambelle. He handed over the drawing of Boule et Bill to Laurent Verron after more than 1000 pages. His work has been translated in fourteen languages and has sold in excess of 25 million copies. He lived in Jette from 1951 until his death in Brussels in 2006.
In 2005, he ended on No. 100 in the election for Le plus grand Belge (The Greatest Belgian). On 6 June 2006, Roba died in Brussels, Belgium of natural causes at the age of 75.
Bibliography
Awards
1978: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Best foreign comical work, for Boule et Bill
1981: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Best comic for 9 to 12 years old, for Boule et Bill: Bill est maboul
1992: Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, France
Roba was also a Knight in the Order of Léopold.
Sources
Footnotes
External links
Jean Roba biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
Jean Roba biography on Dupuis
Jean Roba 2001 interview, with many drawings on BD Paradisio (in French)
Interview in 2006 on Objectible.net (in French)
... Jean Roba (28 July 1930 – 14 June 2006) was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.
Biography
Jean Roba was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium. In his youth, he was a reader of French magazines like Robinson and Mickey, which featured mainly American comics. One of those that was especially influential on Roba was Katzenjammer Kids. After working as an illustrator for different magazines and publicity agencies, he started to work as an illustrator for Spirou magazine in 1957, where he made small cartoons for the front page for a few years. He also worked on Bonnes Soirées, another magazine from the same publisher Dupuis, where he continued the series Sa majesté mon mari after Albert Uderzo stopped. For Spirou, he made a few short stories with Yvan Delporte and collaborated on different stories of Spirou et Fantasio with André Franquin, who taught him the basics of making comics, before starting his own main series Boule et Bill in 1959, initially with stories by Maurice Rosy. Next to this series of mainly one-page comics, he started in 1962 La Ribambelle about a group of kids from various countries and racial backgrounds.
Roba was both an artist and writer, and wrote most of his own gags for Boule et Bill, while others contributed stories for La Ribambelle. He handed over the drawing of Boule et Bill to Laurent Verron after more than 1000 pages. His work has been translated in fourteen languages and has sold in excess of 25 million copies. He lived in Jette from 1951 until his death in Brussels in 2006.
In 2005, he ended on No. 100 in the election for Le plus grand Belge (The Greatest Belgian). On 6 June 2006, Roba died in Brussels, Belgium of natural causes at the age of 75.
Bibliography
Awards
1978: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Best foreign comical work, for Boule et Bill
1981: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Best comic for 9 to 12 years old, for Boule et Bill: Bill est maboul
1992: Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, France
Roba was also a Knight in the Order of Léopold.
Sources
Footnotes
External links
Jean Roba biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
Jean Roba biography on Dupuis
Jean Roba 2001 interview, with many drawings on BD Paradisio (in French)
Interview in 2006 on Objectible.net (in French)
Biography from Wikipedia (see original) under licence CC BY-SA 3.0
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