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Arthur Berckmans - Wikipedia

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Arthur Berckmans
Born	(1929-05-03)3 May 1929 Leuven, Belgium
Died	28 December 2020 (aged 91)
Nationality	Belgian
Area(s)	Writer, Artist
Pseudonym(s)	Berck
Notable works	Sammy
Awards	full list

Arthur Berckmans (3 May 1929 – 28 December 2020),^[1] better known as Berck, was a Belgian comics author, best known for Sammy.

Biography

Arthur Berckmans was born in Leuven in 1929.^[2] He studied drawing at the Art academy of Leuven and at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. His first job as an illustrator was in 1948 for the Flemish Jesuit magazine Pro Apostolis. He also illustrated some youth novels, and started to work at PubliArt, a publicity division of Le Lombard, where he made many drawings and a few publicity comics, appearing in many Belgian newspapers and magazines.

In 1958, Berck was asked by Tintin magazine to collaborate with René Goscinny on a new comical series, Strapontin. The series became a moderate success, and Berck created a few other series for the magazine, the most notable being Rataplan.^[2]

In the meantime, he also started working for Zonneland, the youth magazine of Altiora Averbode, the publishing house of the abbey of Averbode. In later years, he contributed to Sjors, one of the major Dutch comics magazines, where he created the series Lowietje.

But his main breakthrough came when he worked for Spirou magazine. His first series, Mulligan, did not make much of an impact, but when he teamed up with Raoul Cauvin for Sammy, a series about an unlikely pair of bodyguards in Chicago at the time of Al Capone and Eliot Ness, he quickly became one of the more popular artists of the magazine, and the albums got impressive sales. Berck ceased his work on all other series to focus solely on Sammy.

In 1994, Berck announced that he would retire. While this is usual in Belgium at the age of 65, it was an almost unprecedented move for a comics artist. Sammy was continued by the experienced artist Jean-Pol.^[2]

Bibliography

Series	Years	Volumes	Scenarist	Editor
Strapontin	1962–1975	9	René Goscinny and Jacques Acar	Le Lombard and Dargaud
De Sjeik van de Woestijn	1964	1	Yves Duval	Parein
Rataplan	1965–1973	9	Yves Duval	Le Lombard and Dargaud
De Zwartepinken	1970	2	Maurits Renders	Altiora Averbode
Sammy	1972–1994	31	Raoul Cauvin	Dupuis
Rolf Kauka's Mischa	1972–1975	0	Studio Berck	Kauka
De Donderpadjes	1973–1981	2	Rudy Jansen	Oberon and De Dageraad
Lowietje	1976–1982	7	Raoul Cauvin	Oberon
Lombok	1978–1985	3	Daniël Janssens	Standaard Uitgeverij and Bédéscope
Mulligan	1983	1	Raymond Macherot and Yvan Delporte	Bédéscope
Het H.A.P.-mysterie	1986–1987	4	Raoul Cauvin	De Ruijter

This bibliography only lists the comics Berck made which were published as an album in French or Dutch. He further made many short stories, illustrations, and comics for magazines only (e.g. 59 short comics featuring Mischa). His work has been translated into Danish,^[3] Finnish,^[4] German^[5] and Spanish.

Awards

1973: Prix Saint-Michel for Best Comical Artwork, Brussels, Belgium
1975: Prix Saint-Michel for Best Comical Comic
1985: Bronzen Adhemar, Turnhout, Belgium^[6]

Notes

^ "Berck Arthur Berckmans". lambiek.net.
^ ^a ^b ^c De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Berck". In België gestript, pp. 91-92. Tielt: Lannoo.
^ Michigan State University Libraries. "Index to the Comic Art Collection: "Béraldi" to "Berets"". Archived from the original on 23 February 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2007.
^ "Sammy Day". Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2007.
^ "Sammy & Jack (Salleck Publications)". Retrieved 13 February 2007.
^ "STRIP Turnhout". Archived from the original on 23 February 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2007.

Sources

Béra, Michel; Denni, Michel; and Mellot, Philippe: "Trésors de la Bande Dessinée 1999-2000". Les éditions de l'amateur, Paris, 1998. ISBN 2-85917-258-0
Matla, Hans: "Stripkatalogus 9: De negende dimensie". Panda, Den Haag, 1998. ISBN 90-6438-111-9

External links

"Berck". Dupuis. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
"Berck (Arthur Berckmans)". Lambiek.net/Comiclopedia. Archived from the original on 17 August 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2010.

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