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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).
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. Under the name Studio Arle, they created Wim en Eric: De Verdwenen Sloep (1965) and the adventure series De Zwartepinken, with scripts by Maurice Renders (1965-1972) in Zonneland.
In 1968, Berck left Tintin and his series Straponti and Rataplan and transferred to Spirou, where he changed from his strict style to a looser, more liquid one. His first work for his magazine was the comic about New York towboat captain Mulligan, written by Raymond Macherot and Yvan Delporte. However, it was the gangster series Sammy that became his most famous creation. Sammy, written by Raoul Cauvin, first appeared in 1970 and became one of the staples of Spirou magazine.
While drawing Sammy, Berck also worked for the Dutch and Flemish press. He created the daily comic Lombok in cooperation with Daniel Jansens in Het Gazet van Antwerpen in 1969.
From 1972 to 1974, he created the humorous science-fiction series Mischa for the German Rolf Kauka studios in the magazine Primo, with assistance from Francis, Raoul Cauvin, Guy Bollen or Lucien De Gieter.
His work also appeared in the Dutch magazines Sjors and Eppo with series like De Donderpadjes (1971-74) and Lowietje (1976-83).
Arthur Berckmans retired in 1994, handing over the artwork of the Sammy series to Jean-Pol.
Sources include:
lambiek.net
other internet open sources