Biography
Jean-Michel Charlier was a Belgian comics writer. He was a co-founder of the famed Franco-Belgian comics magazine gcd_link_series.
In 1945 he got a job as a draughtsman in Brussels with World Press, the syndicate of Georges Troisfontaines. The following year he and artist gcd_link_creator created the four-page comic strip L'Agonie du Bismarck. Charlier wrote the script and also drew the ships and airplanes. In 1947, Charlier and Hubinon began the long-running air-adventure comic strip gcd_link_feature. After a few years, Charlier stopped all work on the drawings and concentrated only on the scenarios. Charlier collaborated with Hubinon to create gcd_link_feature for La Libre Junior. He also continued to supply scripts for gcd_link_series magazine, collaborating with gcd_link_creator on the strip gcd_link_feature and, in 1955, with future gcd_link_feature artist gcd_link_creator on the comic strip gcd_link_feature. Other long-running series he started for Spirou in the early 1950s were gcd_link_feature for gcd_link_creator, and in 1951 gcd_link_feature (Uncle Paul's true stories), a weekly comic of four pages telling a true story.
Charlier, Hubinon, Uderzo, and comic-strip writer gcd_link_creator founded the comics agency Edifrance and the magazine Pistolin in 1955, and the influential magazine Pilote in 1959. Charlier was editor-in-chief and also wrote two stories for the first issue: gcd_link_feature with Hubinon and gcd_link_feature with Uderzo – these latter two characters would later get their own TV series.
Of seminal importance turned out to be Charlier's initiative as publishing co-editor to start a line of comic book books for gcd_link_publisher (which bought out Pilote in 1960), collecting the stories as serialized in Pilote, becoming in effect Dargaud's first comic book releases. The first title in the series, coined La Collection Pilote, was the first adventure of Asterix from Uderzo and Goscinny, a runaway success right from the bat, followed by 16 comic titles from the magazine, with the first gcd_link_feature adventure, Fort Navajo, becoming the last to be released in 1965. In 1972 friction among the staff at Pilote caused Charlier to give up his editorial position and he worked in French television until 1976. He then worked as editor-in-chief for two years at gcd_link_series magazine. He continued to write Blueberry and Buck Danny stories.
Publication research
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Source record
This article reads the stored creator record in the Panel Profits publication library.
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