Arriving in the high-perched Brussels apartment of Jean Van Hamme, we discover a large bay window overlooking a huge wooded landscape in the heart of the city.
The winter sun caresses the foliage of trees, barely hindered by a few scattered buildings in the town of Uccle.
“As the crow flies, we are only a few meters from the Flanders border,”
smiles the owner.
Spacious, luminous, invaded by statues, sculptures, paintings and books galore: this is how the eagle's nest of a contemporary comic strip legend is presented, nicknamed the "Midas of comics" - it turns into gold everything he touches.
Creator of the powerful Viking Thorgal, the amnesic spy XIII, the charming Lady S, the messianic Chninkel, not to mention the sexy Epoxy or the humanist billionaire Largo Winch, the screenwriter Jean Van Hamme is playful, mischievous, but always so phlegmatic.
The dashing octogenarian reveals his sunny office where an armful of leaves scribbled in pencil
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