Achdé - Hervé Darmenton (* 1961)French comic writer. began his comics career in several fanzines from 1985. He joined the publising house Dargaud in 1991. From 2003, he is the artist of the series 'Lucky Luke' and wrote the album no. 77 and the special "The French Cook".More information on Achdé in French. |
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Adam, Ericcomic writer. He wrote 2 scenarios for Marsupilami, Rantanplan no. 8, and, together with Fauche, the texts for the Lucky Luke album no. 71. |
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Bèvére, Maurice de - "Morris" (1923-2001)Belgian comic writer and creator of Lucky Luke. He started drawing the adventures of the lonesome cowboy in 1947 for the French magazine "L'Almanach Spirou". The first story appeared under the title "Arizona 1880". After a seven year's stay in the US, he returned to Europe and collaborated with René Goscinny. With him, he invented those elements that make the typical trademarks of the stories, e.g. the Daltons, the dog rantanplan, or the final scene at sunset. |
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Darmenton, Hervé: see Achdé |
Dom Domi: see Vandael, Dominique |
Fauche, Xavier (* 1946)French comic writer. He started his career in 1975 and wrote 9 stories for Lucky Luke after Goscinny's death. With his partners Léturgie and Morris, he also created 8 books of "Rantanplan" since 1987. Volume 69, "Belle Starr", he wrote without Léturgie.More information on Fauche in French. |
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Gerra, Laurent (* 1967)French comic writer. For more than ten years, he worked as a humorist for the TV cabaret shows on RTL and France-2, and his gags have turned to classics by now. The album no. 77 is the first one he scetched without the creator Morris.More information on Gerra in German. |
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Goscinny, René (1926-1977)one of the most creative comic writers ever. Known for many famous comic characters (Asterix, Isnogud among others), Goscinny wrote the lyrics for Lucky Luke 4 years before the first release of Asterix. The title was "Railways on the Prairie" and became an immediate success. The collaboration with Morris resulted in 37 adventures of the Western hero and continued uninterrupted until his death.More information on Goscinny in French. |
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Greg: see Régnier, Michel |
Groot, Bob de (* 1941)Belgian comic writer. He created with his partner Philippe Liégeois (known as Turk) some strip heroes like "Robin Dubois" in 1969 and "Leonardo the genius" in 1975. His contributions to Lucky Luke were the volumes no. 33, 72, and 75, and three short episodes gathered in volume 42.More information on de Groot in Dutch. |
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Guylouis, Claudeis no real person, but a pseudonyme for a collective of three comic writers: Guy Vidal (see below), Claude Klotz alias Patrick Cauvin (* 1932), and Jean-Louis Robert (* 1942).More information on Claude Guylouis in French/Swedish. |
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Hartog van Banda, Lodewijk (* 1916)Dutch comic writer. He is celebrated as one of the most important comic writers in the Netherlands. He started for a science fiction magazine and wrote a tremendous amount of stories, among them "De Argonautjes" and the TV series "Berenboot" for children. He entered the Lucky Luke gallery of writers via the stories in volumes 41, 52, and 65.More information on Hartog van Banda in English. |
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Léturgie, Jean (* 1947)French comic writer. His first comic scenario was an episode of the 'Percevan' in 1970. Afterwards, he started a cooperation with Fauche, with whom he wrote 7 Lucky Luke stories. Volumes 70 and 73 he co-wrote with others. Both writers also created the "Rantanplan" series, a Lucky Luke spin-off series.More information on Léturgie in French and also an interview. |
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Lodewijk, Martin (* 1939)Dutch comic writer. He created the pirate strip "Arend Brant" released in 1959 and 1960, and "Agent 327", a successful persiflage on James Bond movies launched in 1977. In the list of Lucky Luke authors, he appears only for a short adventure in volume 42.More information on Lodewijk in Dutch. |
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Morris: see Bèvére, Maurice de |
Nordmann, Patrick (* 1949)Swiss writer. Started as a journalist for a Swiss newspaper, he is last scenarist under the licence of Morris. He wrote two volumes (74 and 76).More information on his own Web-Page in French. |
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Pearceis a pseudonym for a comic duo: Didier Convad (* 1959) and Yann (see Pennetier). They wrote in collaboration with Léturgie on Lucky Luke volume 73, and on the spin-off series "Lucky Kid" and "Cotton Kid". |
Pennetier, Yannick le - "Yann" (* 1954)French humorist. As one of the younger generation, Yann started writing comic strips in the mid-1970ies for the Belgian "Spirou" magazine. He created a lot of scenarios, and became known by Marsupilami in particular. In collaboration with Léturgie he designed volume 70, and volume 73 under the pseudonym of Pearce.More information on Yann in French. |
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Régnier, Michel - "Greg" (1931-1999)Belgian comic writer. At the age of 16 he started his career in a Belgian magazine. In 1958, Greg joined the editorial team of "Tintin," which he later edited from 1964 to 1975. He also wrote for "Spirou et Fantasio", "Marsupilami" and "Luc Orient" among other series. For Lucky Luke, he wrote the only a short story about Jolly Jumper (volume 49).More information on Greg in German. |
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Vandael, Dominique - "Dom Domi"Information about this writer is rather poor. He wrote a handful of strips for "Jess Long" and contributed only one short story for Lucky Luke in volume 42. |
Vicq - Antoine Raymond (1936-1987)Belgian comic writer. Under his civil name, he is almost unknown. He is famed for the juvenile character "Sophie" which has hardly received attention outside the French-Belgian comic world. Vicq wrote just one short episode for Morris in volume 42.More information on Vicq in English. |
Vidal, Guy (* 1939)director of comic strips at Dargaud. Vidal's most cited work is the French series "Pilote". For the Lucky Luke series he wrote only volume 48, but collaborated under the pseudonym of "Claude Guylouis" in voloumes 55 and 58.More information on Vidal in French. |
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Yann: see Pennetier, Yannick le |