Jean De Mesmaeker (21 December 1935 – 30 April 2017), known by the

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Jidéhem (; from the initials "JDM"), was a Belgian

comics artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the literar ...

in the Marcinelle school tradition. He was best known for his series featuring a cute, playful and adventurous young girl, ''

Sophie Sophie is a feminine given name, another version of Sophia, from the Greek word for "wisdom". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Soph ...

''. A creator of his own series ''

'', and ''Ginger'', and noted for his work with ''Starter'' and ''Uhu-man'', he is known for his collaborations and assistance to the work of

André Franquin André Franquin (; 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best-known creations are ''Gaston (comics), Gaston'' and ''Marsupilami''. He also produced the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' comic strip from 1946 to ...

during a long career at the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou'', working on ''

Spirou et Fantasio ''Spirou & Fantasio'' (), commonly shortened to ''Spirou'', is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comics. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European comics, European humorous adventu ...

'' and ''

Gaston Lagaffe ''Gaston'' is a Belgian gag-a-day comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou''. The series, serving as a spin-off of the magazine's primary series ''Spirou et Fantasio ...

'', on which he shared co-authorship for several years.

References

Sources

Jidéhem publications in ''Spirou''
BDoubliées

External links

Jidéhem profile
on Dupuis
Jidéhem Biography
on bédétheque

1935 births 2017 deaths Belgian comics artists Belgian comics writers Belgian humorists Belgian sports comics artists Artists from Brussels Spirou (magazine) people {{FrancoBelgian-comics-stub