William Vance
Birth name	William van Cutsem
Born	September 8, 1935 (1935-09-08) (age 72) Anderlecht, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Area(s)	artist, writer
Notable works	XIII Bob Morane Bruce J. Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the region of Belgium for the football club see R The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Bob Morane, a creation of French-speaking Belgian novelist Henri Vernes, the pseudonym of Charles-Henri Dewisme is a series of adventure books in French featuring Hawker Bruno Brazil
Awards	full list

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. Bruno Brazil is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Greg, under the pseudonym Louis Albert and drawn by William Vance. Events 48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those A comics artist is an Artist working within the Comics medium on Comic strips Comic books or Graphic novels The term may refer to Franco-Belgian comics are Comics that are created in Belgium and France.

Biography

William Van Cutsem was born in Anderlecht near Brussels in 1935. This article is about the region of Belgium for the football club see R Brussels (Bruxelles pronounced; Brussel pronounced) officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is After his military service in 1955-1956, he studied for four years at the Royal Academy for Visual Arts. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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. Belgium and France have a long tradition in Comics. They have a common history for comics (see Franco-Belgian comics) and magazines Le journal de Tintin (in its French-speaking version Kuifje ( Dutch-speaking version was a weekly Belgian comics magazine Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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. Bruno Brazil is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Greg, under the pseudonym Louis Albert and drawn by William Vance. Michel Regnier ( May 5, 1931 &ndash October 29, 1999) was a Belgian and later French Comics writer and artist

From 1967 on, he continued the stories of Bob Morane in Femmes d'aujourd'hui, a magazine aimed at adult women. Bob Morane, a creation of French-speaking Belgian novelist Henri Vernes, the pseudonym of Charles-Henri Dewisme is a series of adventure books in French featuring 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. Charles-Henri-Jean Dewisme ( Ath, Belgium, 1918) better known by his pen name Henri Vernes, is a well-known author of action and science-fiction novels 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. La Cenerentola ossia La bontà in trionfo ( Cinderella or Goodness Triumphant) is an Operatic Dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioacchino 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. Jean Van Hamme (born January 16, 1939) is a Belgian Novelist and scenario Writer of Comic books He has written scenarios 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. Spirou magazine is a Belgian comics magazine. First published April 21, 1938 as Le Journal de Spirou, it was an eight page weekly comics

Bibliography

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

- nominated for Favourite European Comic at the Eagle Awards, United Kingdom

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External links

• William Vance biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia