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Berck BIOGRAPHY
1929 Louven, Belgium - 2020. Known for: Comic illustration.
Flemish artist Arthur Berckmans, who used the pseudonym Berck, was born in Louven. He studied drawing at the Louven Art Academy and at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels. He started his career... Read full biography
Flemish artist Arthur Berckmans, who used the pseudonym Berck, was born in Louven. He studied drawing at the Louven Art Academy and at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels. He started his career publishing religious drawings in the Jesuit monthly Pro Apostolis in 1948. For this magazine, he also... Read full biography
Flemish artist Arthur Berckmans, who used the pseudonym Berck, was born in Louven. He studied drawing at the Louven Art Academy and at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels. He started his career publishing religious drawings in the Jesuit monthly Pro Apostolis in 1948. For this magazine, he also created his first comics, La Vie de Saint Ignace and Le Père de Smet au Nebraska ('De Grote Zwartrok'). Together with writer Yves Duval, he began a second series called Rataplan, about a little drummer... Read full biography
Flemish artist Arthur Berckmans, who used the pseudonym Berck, was born in Louven. He studied drawing at the Louven Art Academy and at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels. He started his career publishing religious drawings in the Jesuit monthly Pro Apostolis in 1948. For this magazine, he also created his first comics, La Vie de Saint Ignace and Le Père de Smet au Nebraska ('De Grote Zwartrok'). Together with writer Yves Duval, he began a second series called Rataplan, about a little drummer boy in Napoleon's army in 1961. Berck and Duval additionally made a couple of one time comics, such as Panchico (1963), Ken Krom (1966) and Lady Boun (1967). In addition to his work for Tintin, Berck cooperated with Leo Loedts on several stories for... Read full biography
Flemish artist Arthur Berckmans, who used the pseudonym Berck, was born in Louven. He studied drawing at the Louven Art Academy and at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels. He started his career publishing religious drawings in the Jesuit monthly Pro Apostolis in 1948. For this magazine, he also created his first comics, La Vie de Saint Ignace and Le Père de Smet au Nebraska ('De Grote Zwartrok'). Together with writer Yves Duval, he began a second series called Rataplan, about a little drummer boy in Napoleon's army in 1961. Berck and Duval additionally made a couple of one time comics, such as Panchico (1963), Ken Krom (1966) and Lady Boun (1967). In addition to his work for Tintin, Berck cooperated with Leo Loedts on several stories for the magazines of the publishing house Altoria in Averbode.... Read full biography
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Flemish artist Arthur Berckmans, who used the pseudonym Berck, was born in Louven. He studied drawing at the Louven Art Academy and at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels. He started his career publishing religious drawings in the Jesuit monthly Pro Apostolis in 1948. For this magazine, he also created his first comics, La Vie de Saint Ignace and Le Père de Smet au Nebraska ('De Grote Zwartrok').
Together with writer Yves Duval, he began a second series called Rataplan, about a little drummer boy in Napoleon's army in 1961. Berck and Duval additionally made a couple of one time comics, such as Panchico (1963), Ken Krom (1966) and Lady Boun (1967).
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