Belgian cartoonist Sidney, author of historical stories with screenwriter Yves Duval in the Tintin newspaper in the 1960s and 1970s, died Thursday at the age of 91, Le Lombard publishers announced on Friday.
Sidney, real name Paul Ramboux, was also known for the series Julie, Claire, Cécile, based on scripts by Michel De Bom (known as Bom), recounting the adventures of three young girls going from childhood to adulthood. . This series with 24 albums, born in the early 1980s, had nourished the pages of the Tintin newspaper, of which Sidney was “a pillar”, according to Lombard.
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Sidney also worked for Spirou, under pseudonyms like Kovak and Malois, recalls the publisher in a press release. He had illustrated “around sixty Beautiful Stories of Uncle Paul, as well as a long biography of Marco Polo”, adds the press release.
The weekly Tintin, born in 1946, reached a circulation of 240,000 copies at its peak in the 1970s. It ceased publication in 1988. After studying at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels, Sidney entered the studio of the Tintin newspaper as a “page editor” before starting to draw his first short stories.