Jacques Martin (cartoonist): Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Jacques Martin is a French comic book writer and artist, born in Strasbourg, France on 25 September 1921. He is one of the classic artist of the Journal of Tintin magazine, alongside with Edgar P. Jacobs and Hergé, of whom he has been a longtime collaborator. He is best know for his Alix series.

Biography

After forced studies of engineer, he starts in 1942 to draw his first sotries. In 1946, after the war had ended, he roamed Belgium in search of an editor. He meets then Hergé whith whom he starts to collaborate on albums of The Adventures of Tintin (and more specifically on Tintin in Tibet and The Red Sea Sharks) while working on its own albums.
In 1948, he creates Alix his most famous series, in the magazine Tintin, whose adventures - extremely-well documented - occur in the Roman antiquity. This historic comic soon became one of the most popular of the genre - by now it has been published in countries worldwide.

Later on, It creates other characters, the journalist Lefranc in 1952, Jhen in 1978 and finally Orion in 1990.
In 1998, because of failing eyesight, he left the drawing of Alix to Rafael Morales. Alix continues running with great success.