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René Hausman (21 February 1936 – 28 April 2016) was a Belgian
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writer and artist, best known for his dark fairytales and watercolour drawings.


Biography

René Hausman was born in
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, Belgium in 1936.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "René Hausman". In België gestript, pp. 121. Tielt: Lannoo. After meeting already famed comics author
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when he was 18 years old, he quit his studies and made illustrations for local magazines. A few years later, he started working for ''Le Moustique'', a family magazine from publisher
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. From there, he moved to '' Spirou'', the Franco-Belgian comics magazine of the same publisher, where he contributed in 1957 ''Saki et Zunie'', his first comic, with a story by Yvan Delporte. In the following years, he provided more than 500 illustrations for the magazine, specializing in animals and local folklore, which earned him the nickname "
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of the
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". In the following decades, he widened his oeuvre to more adult comics, including erotic fables in the French magazine ''
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'', but he got his major breakthrough in 1985 when he created ''Laïyna'', a fairy story in two parts, the first of which was published as a supplement to ''Spirou'' in one week. It became a few years later the first album in ''Aire Libre'', the new graphic novels collection of Dupuis. He later made three more comics for the same series. Also known as a sculptor and a bagpipe player, Hausman never had a major commercial success but got wide recognition for his use of colours and the use of the fantastic in his stories. All his stories feature nature and animals, and Hausman himself has lived for all his life in the country. He has been a major influence on many younger Franco-Belgian comics artists, including
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and Didier Comès. In 1995, he was made an honorary citizen of the city of
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.


Bibliography

This bibliography only mentions the comics by Hausman which have been published as an album, and does for the moment not include his book illustrations, magazine illustrations, and music album covers. Apart from publications in French and Dutch, his comics also have been translated into
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and Swedish. Hausman has also designed different stamps for the Belgian Post, illustrating native animals of the
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. His stamp for the Horses Procession in
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was even praised as the best Belgian stamp of 2002.


Notes


Sources

* Béra, Michel; Denni, Michel; and Mellot, Philippe (2002): "Trésors de la Bande Dessinée 2003–2004".
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, Les éditions de l'amateur.


External links


Biography at Comiclopedia

Biography at Dupuis
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