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Jean Van Hamme: "I happily put myself in the shoes of Edgar P. Jacobs"

2023-03-24T09:35:11.311Z


INTERVIEW - The creator of Thorgal, XIII or Largo Winch publishes La Flèche ardente, following the album Le Rayon “U” published by Edgar P. Jacobs in 1943.


He wears, as usual, elegance and distinction at all times.

Smiling, phlegmatic, eyes sparkling with mischief, Jean Van Hamme is passing through Paris.

At 84 spring, the creator of Thorgal, XIII, Largo Winch, Epoxy or Lady S looks great.

The man who successfully relaunched the adventures of Blake and Mortimer in 1996 thanks to

L'Affaire Francis Blake

is publishing a new album that no one was expecting:

La Flèche ardente

.

Eighty years after the publication of the album

Le Rayon “U”

, created by Edgar P. Jacobs, the author of Le

Grand Pouvoir du Chninkel

gives a sequel to this substitute for

Flash Gordon

, created in 1943 for the newspaper

Bravo!

, while the German occupier had banned American comics.

The one who is nicknamed the "Midas of comics" since he confesses to having sold more than 44 million copies of his albums for nearly forty-five years, is happy to say that he has taken "a

very great pleasure to dive back into the bubbling cauldron of good…

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Source: lefigaro

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