Jacques Van Melkebeke
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Jacques Van Melkebeke (1904-1983) was a journalist, writer, and scenario writer of comic strip Belgian.
Friend of Hergé, it took part in a semi-official way in the development of some scénarii of the adventures of Tintin, adding a number of cultural references. He would have also contributed to certain albums of Blake and Mortimer, although Edgar P. Jacobs disputed this fact.
Its personality would have been one of the sources of inspiration of Philip Mortimer. During the occupation of Belgium by the Nazi Germany, Jacques Van Melkebeke is responsible leading article for 'Le Soir Jeunesse', supplement of the daily newspaper 'Le Soir'.
That is worth to him a judgment for collaboration in 1945 (although it primarily published cultural articles). For this same reason, Jacques Van Melkebeke could not preserve the functions of editor of the newspaper of Tintin, that Hergé had wanted to entrust to him : this suspicion of "incivism" prevented it it from continuing a regular career in journalism. Jacques Van Melkebeke is regarded as the "Third man" of the Franco-Belgian comic strip, as ignored as its influence was large at a certain time...
[edit] Bibliography
Benoit Mouchart, "A l'ombre de la ligne claire: Jacques Van Melkebeke, le clandestin de la B.D." Paris: Vertige Graphic, 2002. ISBN 2-908981-71-8
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