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Maurice De Bevere, known as “Morris,” is a Belgian cartoonist and comic book writer, born in 1923.

 

He created Lucky Luke in 1946, followed by Rantanplan in 1987. In 1990, he founded Lucky Productions to promote his work. He was awarded the Prize of honour at the special 20th anniversary of the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1992. In 1998, he was made Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. Morris passed away in 2001 at the age of 77. Morris is known as being one of the founding fathers of comic books. He was born in Courtrai (Kortrijk-Belgium) on December 1, 1923 as Maurice De Bevere. After earning his high school diploma and studying law in university, he took drawing lessons from Jean Image, where he also learned animation techniques. Shortly after, he joined the Belgian News Company, an animation studio where he met André Franquin, Eddy Paape, and Peyo.

In 1945, he was asked to illustrate Le Moustique; he would go on to create more than 250 covers for this humorous magazine! It was during this period that he chose the pseudonym “Morris” to script and draw the first humorous adventures of Lucky Luke. These appeared for the first time under the title “Arizona 1880” in the “Spirou Almanac” in 1947.

Lucky Luke is characterized as a solitary cowboy with a big heart and an unwavering sense of justice. He is generally accompanied by his wise horse Jolly Jumper, the dumbest dog in the West Rantanplan. and is surrounded by a cast of colourful characters. Morris also introduced famous American Far-West figures, such as the bumbling Dalton brothers, Billy the Kid, Judge Roy Bean, Calamity Jane, and other historical personalities like the actress Sarah Bernhardt.

Overall Lucky Luke quickly rose to international fame in the world of comic books thanks to Morris’ simple, expressive, and incredibly effective drawing style.

From 1948 to 1955, Morris travelled across the United States with his friends Franquin and Jijé (Joseph Gillain). He met with comic book parody experts from the magazine Mad: Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, and Wallace Wood. In New York, he met René Goscinny, whom he later invited to collaborate as a scriptwriter upon his return to Europe. These two legendary figures of the world of comic books worked together with passion until Goscinny’s death in 1977.

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Maurice De Bevere, known as “Morris,” is a Belgian cartoonist and comic book writer, born in 1923.

 

He created Lucky Luke in 1946, followed by Rantanplan in 1987. In 1990, he founded Lucky Productions to promote his work. He was awarded the Prize of honour at the special 20th anniversary of the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1992. In 1998, he was made Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. Morris passed away in 2001 at the age of 77. Morris is known as being one of the founding fathers of comic books. He was born in Courtrai (Kortrijk-Belgium) on December 1, 1923 as Maurice De Bevere. After earning his high school diploma and studying law in university, he took drawing lessons from Jean Image, where he also learned animation techniques. Shortly after, he joined the Belgian News Company, an animation studio where he met André Franquin, Eddy Paape, and Peyo.

In 1945, he was asked to illustrate Le Moustique; he would go on to create more than 250 covers for this humorous magazine! It was during this period that he chose the pseudonym “Morris” to script and draw the first humorous adventures of Lucky Luke. These appeared for the first time under the title “Arizona 1880” in the “Spirou Almanac” in 1947.

Lucky Luke is characterized as a solitary cowboy with a big heart and an unwavering sense of justice. He is generally accompanied by his wise horse Jolly Jumper, the dumbest dog in the West Rantanplan. and is surrounded by a cast of colourful characters. Morris also introduced famous American Far-West figures, such as the bumbling Dalton brothers, Billy the Kid, Judge Roy Bean, Calamity Jane, and other historical personalities like the actress Sarah Bernhardt.

Overall Lucky Luke quickly rose to international fame in the world of comic books thanks to Morris’ simple, expressive, and incredibly effective drawing style.

From 1948 to 1955, Morris travelled across the United States with his friends Franquin and Jijé (Joseph Gillain). He met with comic book parody experts from the magazine Mad: Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, and Wallace Wood. In New York, he met René Goscinny, whom he later invited to collaborate as a scriptwriter upon his return to Europe. These two legendary figures of the world of comic books worked together with passion until Goscinny’s death in 1977.