Jacques Laudy (7 April 1907 – 28 July 1993) was a Belgian

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artist who contributed to the early issues of the weekly ''

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'' magazine. Jacques Laudy was born in

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in 1907 as the son of the painter Jean Laudy. He worked mainly as a painter, illustrator, and comics artist. Laudy started his career as an artist for ''

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'' magazine that, like '' Spirou'' magazine, was one of the leading Belgian comics publications before and during

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. One of the other artists there was

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, who had first met Laudy in the 1920s and who would become a lifelong friend. Laudy was the physical example for Blake, one of the main characters of Jacobs' ''

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''.

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asked Laudy as one of the first artists, together with Jacobs,

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, and

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, to fill the new ''

'' magazine. Laudy created '' The Legend of the Four Aymon Brothers''. His only real series was ''Hassan et Kadour'', while the rest of his oeuvre consisted mainly of one-offs, stories that didn't belong in a series. This lack of a series and lack of album publication also meant that Laudy never became as well known as the others. In 1992, he was the focus of a retrospective exhibition at the

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. His main interest outside art was music. From 1928 on, he was a collector and maker of

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, mainly Scottish ones. An instrument made by him in 1940 is in the collection of the Musical Instrument Museum of Brussels.

Bibliography

Many works by Laudy have never been published as albums and are only available in the magazines they originally appeared in. This is a list of those comics or illustrations that were published as a book eventually. *''Les mameluks de Bonaparte'', editions R.T.P., 1975, published in Dutch as ''Soldaten van Napoleon'' by Brabantia Nostra the same year *''De dief van Bagdad'', Panda, 1978 *''De vrolijcke en heerlijcke daden van Keizer Karel en andere vertelsels'', Jonas, 1979 *''Silhouetten'', Blues, 1981 *''Le Royaume d'Edgar J.'', Himalaya / Magic Strip, 1993, published in Dutch as ''Het rijk van Edgar J.''by Loempia the same year

Awards

*1974: Grand

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