Greg Michel/Luc Junior. Original plate #15 of... Lot 41

Greg Michel/Luc Junior. Original plate #15 of the 22nd and last story "Junior et le Grand Pacha" illustrating the moment when the guide falls in the quicksand. India ink and graphite published around 1965 in the supplement of the Libre Belgique. TBE. 39 X 42 cm Michel Louis Albert Regnier alias Michel Greg or Greg (1931 -1999) is a Belgian naturalized French cartoonist, scriptwriter, editor and literary director of comics. In the mid-fifties, thanks to the advice of André Franquin, Greg progresses and signs stories that are not available today. He collaborates with Héroic-Albums for the texts and drawings of Le Chat, and for the scenarios of only two series with IMA, l'ami des jeunes. His complicity with Franquin allows him to write about 100 gags of Modeste and Pompon published in the newspaper Tintin as well as several episodes of the adventures of Spirou and Fantasio in Le journal de Spirou. From 1958 to 1977, Greg creates numerous series as a scriptwriter for Tibet, Maréchal, Mittéï, Cuvelier, Hermann, Paape, Vance, Dany, Azara, Turk and Bob de Groot, Auclair, Aidans, Derib, Fahrer, Dupa, etc. During all these years, he does not abandon the drawing and gives birth to numerous series. The famous Achille Talon appeared for the first time in 1963 in the newspaper Pilote. It was originally a request from Goscinny (editor-in-chief) to "fill in the gaps". Until 1975, they were gags on one or two pages, and thereafter Achille Talon also saw longer adventures published in albums. With more than 250 albums to his credit, Greg is one of the most prolific creators of the French-Belgian comic strip.