William Vance
| William Vance | |
| Birth name | William van Cutsem |
| Born | September 8 1935 Anderlecht, Belgium |
| Nationality |
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| Area(s) | artist, writer |
| Notable works | XIII Bob Morane Bruce J. Hawker Bruno Brazil |
| Awards | full list |
William Vance, pseudonym for William van Cutsem (born August 9, 1935) is a Belgian comic book artist.
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.[1]
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 moves to Tintin as well. Vance was later succeeded by his brother-in-law, Coria.
Always restless, 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.[2]
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
| Series | Years | Volumes | Scenarist | Editor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Flynn | 1966-1969 | 3 | Yves Duval | Le Lombard and Dargaud |
| Ringo | 1967-1978 | 3 | Acar | Le Lombard and Dargaud |
| Bruno Brazil | 1969-1995 | 11 | Greg | Le Lombard and Dargaud |
| Bob Morane | 1971-1980 | 18 | Henri Vernes | Le Lombard and Dargaud |
| C'étaient des hommes | 1976 | 1 | William Vance | Deligne |
| Ramiro | 1977-1990 | 10 | Jacques Stoquart | Dargaud |
| Roderic | 1979 | 2 | Lucien Meys | Bédéscope |
| XIII | 1984- | 17 | Jean Van Hamme | Dargaud |
| Bruce J. Hawker | 1985-1996 | 7 | William Vance | Le Lombard |
| Marshall Blueberry | 1991-1993 | 2 | Jean Giraud | Alpen |
| XHG-C3 - Le vaisseau rebelle | 1995 | 1 | William Vance | Gibraltar |
Awards
- 1989: nominated for Best Long Comic Strip at the Haxtur Awards, Spain
- 2003: nominated for the Audience Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France
- 2005: Bronzen Adhemar in Turnhout, Belgium
- 2006: nominated for Best Comic (Dutch language) at the Prix Saint-Michel, Brussels, Belgium
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- - nominated for Favourite European Comic at the Eagle Awards, United Kingdom
References
- William Vance publications in BelgianTintin and French Tintin, Spirou, BoDoï BDoubliées (French)
- William Vance albums Bedetheque (French)
Footnotes
External links
- William Vance biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
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