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William Vance, the pen name of
William van Cutsem, born
August 9,
1935, is a
Belgian comics artist widely known throughout a long career for his distinctive style and work in
Franco-Belgian comics.
Biography
William Van Cutsem was born in
Anderlecht near
Brussels in 1935. After his military service in
1955-
1956, he studied for four years at the Royal Academy for Visual Arts. Originally from Flanders, he worked most of his life in France, and moved later to Spain.
William Vance started drawing for the
comics magazine Tintin in
1962. After drawing complete real life stories of four pages for a few years, he started work on his first series,
Howard Flynn, written by Yves Duval. Three albums followed, before he created other short lived series such as the Western
Ringo and
Roderik. His first success followed with the series about secret agent
Bruno Brazil, written by Tintin's editor-in-chief
Greg, as one of the comics that started the revival and repositioning of Tintin as a more adult oriented magazine.
From 1967 on, he continued the stories of
Bob Morane in
Femmes d'aujourd'hui, a magazine aimed at adult women. This science fiction series, based on the novels by
Henri Vernes, was started by
Dino Attanasio and continued by Gerald Forton before Vance took over and made it a success. A few years later, the series moved to
Tintin as well, and Vance was succeeded by his brother-in-law, Coria.
Vance meanwhile started two new series,
Ramiro, with stories set in medieval Spain, and from 1976 onwards,
Bruce J. Hawker, his personal favourite, starring a lieutenant with the Royal Navy.
His final breakthrough and largest commercial success came in 1984, when writer
Jean Van Hamme proposed a new series,
XIII. First serialised in
Spirou, this series of contemporary adventures with action, violence, and complicated intrigues, let Vance draw upon his talent for realistic drawings, action scenes and exotic settings.
Bibliography
Awards
Sources
William Vance publications in BelgianTintin
and French Tintin, Spirou, BoDoï BDoubliées
William Vance albums Bedetheque
Footnotes
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