Herman BrusselmansW
Herman Brusselmans

Herman Frans Martha Brusselmans is a Belgian novelist, poet, playwright and columnist. He lives in Ghent. He is one of the best-selling authors in Flanders, but controversial at the same time for his profane language and offensive comedy.

Jan BucquoyW
Jan Bucquoy

Jan Bucquoy is a Belgian anarchist who has worked in various media. He gained fame for his controversial anti-establishment works and media stunts, which caused many court cases, including for lèse-majesté, copyright infingement and defamation. Between 2005 and 2010 he staged five attempts to attack the Belgian Royal Palace in Brussels and conquer it. Internationally he is best known as a film director, with La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994) and the cult film Camping Cosmos (1996) being his most famous movies. A recurring theme in his work is Belgitude.

Raoul CauvinW
Raoul Cauvin

Raoul Cauvin is a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field.

Annie CordyW
Annie Cordy

Léonie, Baroness Cooreman, known by the stage name Annie Cordy, was a Belgian actress and singer. She appeared in more than 50 films from 1954 and staged many memorable appearances at Bruno Coquatrix' famous Paris Olympia. Her version of "La Ballade de Davy Crockett" was number 1 in the charts for five weeks in France in August 1956. She was born in Laeken, Belgium, where in 2004, King Albert II of Belgium bestowed upon her the title of Baroness in recognition for her life's achievements.

Dany (comics)W
Dany (comics)

Dany, pseudonym for Daniel Henrotin is a Belgian comic book artist, best known for Olivier Rameau and Ça vous intéresse?.

Bob de GrootW
Bob de Groot

Bob de Groot is a Belgian cartoonist, born on 26 October 1941 in Brussels, to Dutch and French parents.

Bob de MoorW
Bob de Moor

Bob de Moor is the pen name of Robert Frans Marie De Moor, a Belgian comics creator. Chiefly noted as an artist, he is considered an early master of the Ligne claire style. He wrote and drew several comics series on his own, but also collaborated with Hergé on several volumes of The Adventures of Tintin. He completed the unfinished story Professor Sató's Three Formulae, Volume 2: Mortimer vs. Mortimer of the Blake and Mortimer series, after the death of the author Edgar P. Jacobs.

Bart De PauwW
Bart De Pauw

Bart De Pauw is a Flemish TV host, comedian, actor and TV and film scriptwriter, known for humoristic television series and shows on Belgian public television, like Buiten De Zone, Schalkse Ruiters, Het Geslacht De Pauw, Willy's en Marjetten, De Mol, Quiz Me Quick and De Biker Boys. He is also the scriptwriter of the original Flemish version of The Loft.

Raymond DevosW
Raymond Devos

Raymond Devos was a Belgian-French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour.

Fernand DineurW
Fernand Dineur

Fernand Dineur was a Belgian cartoonist, famous for creating "Tif et Tondu". The series was published in Spirou from the very first issue, 1938.

DupaW
Dupa

Luc Dupanloup, more famous under his pen name Dupa, was a Belgian comics artist best known as the creator of Cubitus which later was turned into an animated series called Wowser. He was born on 12 February 1945 in Montignies-sur-Sambre and died on 8 November 2000 in Ottignies.

André FranquinW
André Franquin

André Franquin was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known creations are Gaston and Marsupilami. He also produced the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, a period seen by many as the series' golden age.

Jonas GeirnaertW
Jonas Geirnaert

Jonas Geirnaert studied animation at the KASK in Ghent. In May 2004 he won the Short Film Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his animated short Flatlife. Of the copy he sent in for selection only the first minute had sound. This is because this was his graduation project, and it wasn't completely finished at the final date for selection entries.

Philippe GeluckW
Philippe Geluck

Philippe Geluck is a Belgian comedian, humorist, television writer and cartoonist, who sold more than 14 million albums worldwide. He studied at the INSAS. His best-known work is the comic strip Le Chat, which is one of the ten bestselling Franco-Belgian comics series.

Jean-Richard GeurtsW
Jean-Richard Geurts

Jean-Richard Geurts, perhaps better known under his pseudonym Janry, is a Belgian comics artist. With Tome he created Le Petit Spirou and made several Spirou et Fantasio albums.

HergéW
Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian cartoonist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums which are considered one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. He was also responsible for two other well-known series, Quick & Flupke (1930–1940) and The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko (1936–1957). His works were executed in his distinct ligne claire drawing style.

Ilah (cartoons)W
Ilah (cartoons)

Ilah is the nom de plume of Inge Liesbeth Alfonsina Heremans, a Belgian comic book artist, mainly known for her Cordelia series, a gag-a-day comic about a young woman, which has gained popularity and notoriety for openly but tastefully dealing with themes like sex and masturbation. Ilah is also a prominent illustrator of advertisements for the Antwerp book festival De Boekenbeurs and the bus company De Lijn.

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Kamagurka

Luc Zeebroek, better known as Kamagurka, is a Belgian cartoonist, playwright, comic strip artist, painter, comedian, comedic singer and television producer, known for the absurd nature of his work. He created various comic strip characters, but "Bert" is the most well known. He also writes the scenarios for Herr Seele's comic strip, Cowboy Henk.

LambilW
Lambil

Lambil is a Belgian comic-book artist, best known for the series Les Tuniques Bleues, which has been published in English as "The Blue Tunics" and "The Bluecoats".

Tom LanoyeW
Tom Lanoye

Tom Lanoye was born 27 August 1958 in the Belgian city Sint Niklaas. He is a novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. He is one of the most widely read and honoured authors in his language area, and makes regular appearances at all the major European theatre festivals.

Philippe LiégeoisW
Philippe Liégeois

Philippe Liégeois is a Belgian comic book artist. He is best known by his pen name Turk. He is the co-author of numerous comic books, including Colonel Clifton, Léonard and Robin Dubois. His usual writer for all three series is Bob de Groot, and the duo "Turk & De Groot" has been very successful.

Willy LinthoutW
Willy Linthout

Willy Linthout is a Belgian comics author, best known for the Urbanus comics and his graphic novel Years of the Elephant.

Nawell MadaniW
Nawell Madani

Nawell Madani is a Belgian humorist of Algerian descent, presenter and producer. She became famous in 2012 because of the Jamel Comedy Club.

Hugo MatthysenW
Hugo Matthysen

Hugo Matthysen is a Belgian (Flemish) singer, guitarist, columnist, writer, Master in Philosophy and actor. He lives in the municipality of Hove in Antwerp.

Karl MeersmanW
Karl Meersman

Karl Meersman is a Belgian editorial cartoonist, living in Sint-Niklaas. He is known for his weekly caricatures in the popular magazines Trends and Knack. Meersman is married to former VRT-television journalist and presenter Lies Martens.

MerhoW
Merho

Merho, born Robert Merhottein on 24 October 1948, is a Belgian comic-book writer and artist, best known for creating the comic strip De Kiekeboes.

MidamW
Midam

Midam is the pseudonym of Michel Ledent, the Belgian comics author best known for Kid Paddle.

Morris (cartoonist)W
Morris (cartoonist)

Maurice De Bevere, better known as Morris, was a Belgian cartoonist, comics artist, illustrator and the creator of Lucky Luke, a bestselling comic series about a gunslinger in the American Wild West. He was inspired by the adventures of the historic Dalton Gang and other outlaws. It was a bestselling series for more than 20 years that was translated into 23 languages and published internationally. He collaborated for two decades with French writer René Goscinny on the series. Morris's pen name is an Anglicized version of his first name.

Jef NysW
Jef Nys

Jozef "Jef" Nys was a Belgian comic book creator. He was best known for his comic strip Jommeke.

Bart PeetersW
Bart Peeters

Bart August Maria Peeters is a Belgian singer, musician, television presenter and actor.

PeyoW
Peyo

Pierre "Peyo" Culliford was a Belgian cartoonist who worked under the pseudonym Peyo. His best-known works are the comic strips The Smurfs and Johan and Peewit, in which the Smurfs first appeared.

Félicien RopsW
Félicien Rops

Félicien Victor Joseph Rops was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism and the Parisian Fin-de Siecle. He was a painter, illustrator, caricaturist and a prolific and innovative print maker, particularly in intaglio. Although not well known to the general public, Rops was greatly respected by his peers and actively pursued and celebrated as an illustrator by the publishers, authors, and poets of his time and provided frontispieces and illustrations for Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Charles De Coster, Théophile Gautier, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Stéphane Mallarmé, Joséphin Péladan, Paul Verlaine, Voltaire, and many others. He is best known today for his prints and drawings illustrating erotic and occult literature of the period, although he also produced oil paintings including landscapes, seascapes, and occasional genre paintings. Rops is recognized as a pioneer of Belgian comics.

Louis SalvériusW
Louis Salvérius

Louis Salvérius, also known as Salvérius or Salve was a Walloon comics artist. He was best known for co-creating the Les Tuniques Bleues series. He died early from a heart attack, after which the series was taken over by Willy Lambil.

Herr SeeleW
Herr Seele

Herr Seele, the pseudonym of Peter Van Heirseele, is a Flemish cartoonist, author, actor, piano tuner and piano collector.

Pierre SeronW
Pierre Seron

Pierre Seron was a Belgian comic book artist.

Marc SleenW
Marc Sleen

Marcel Honoree Nestor, Knight Neels, known as Marc Sleen, was a Belgian cartoonist. He was mostly known for his comic The Adventures of Nero and Co., but also created gag comics like Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke, De Lustige Kapoentjes, Doris Dobbel, Oktaaf Keunink and De Ronde van Frankrijk.

Benoît SokalW
Benoît Sokal

Benoît Sokal is a Belgian comic artist and video game developer, best known for his comics series Inspector Canardo, and the adventure game series Syberia.

Maurice TillieuxW
Maurice Tillieux

Maurice Tillieux was a Belgian writer and comic artist. He is regarded by many as a major figure of post-war Belgian comics.

UrbanusW
Urbanus

Urbain Servranckx, better known as Urbanus, is a Belgian comedian, actor, singer and comic book writer. Although he is most famous as comedian, some of his songs became hits, such as Bakske vol met stro (1979), Madammen met een bontjas (1980) and Hittentit (1982). In Flanders and the Netherlands Urbanus is one of the most popular and famous entertainers of all time.

Mark UytterhoevenW
Mark Uytterhoeven

Mark Uytterhoeven is a Belgian television presenter, TV script writer, actor, comedian and former sports journalist.

Willy VandersteenW
Willy Vandersteen

Willy Vandersteen was a Belgian creator of comic books. In a career spanning 50 years, he created a large studio and published more than 1,000 comic albums in over 25 series, selling more than 200 million copies worldwide.

Philippe VandeveldeW
Philippe Vandevelde

Philippe Vandevelde, working under the pseudonym Tome, was a Belgian comics writer. He was known for collaborations with Janry on Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou, and with Luc Warnant and later Bruno Gazzotti on Soda. He also collaborated with Ralph Meyer on Berceuse assassine, and with Marc Hardy on Feux. Earlier in his career he was an assistant-artist for Dupa.

François WalthéryW
François Walthéry

François Walthéry is a Belgian comics artist, best known for his series featuring an adventurous flight attendant, Natacha.