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Jean-Luc Delvaux. Original felt-tip artwork, exclusively...

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Jean-Luc Delvaux. Original felt-tip artwork, exclusively in aid of the "Une tente une vie" operation, on cardboard. Signed. Wood frame with Plexiglas glass included: 155 x 125 cm Jean-Luc Delvaux was born on September 28, 1970 in Engis, in the province of Liège. He was the son of a carpenter who read Spirou and Tintin, and it was around the age of 11 or 12 that he first considered making comics his future profession. He studied art humanities, then enrolled at the École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc in Liège, graduating with a degree in illustration. His first album, Le Truand oublié, was published in 1995, followed by DS Irae in 1997. At the same time, he assisted Jean Graton on the Michel Vaillant series and Les Dossiers Michel Vaillant from 1994 to 19973. In 1999, he drew Les Aventures d'Abel Simonin dit l'Abel occase for the magazine Rétromania. He also worked for Gazoline magazine, where he published Gazafond, a comic strip on the newspaper's adventures. A first collection was published in 2013. He also draws the adventures of Jacques Gipar, France Enquêtes journalist and legal columnist, based on a script by his friend Thierry Dubois. The first adventure, Le Gang des Pinardiers, appeared in April 2010 in the "Calandre" collection published by Paquet. Volume 2, Le Retour des Capucins, came out in July 2011, and the third album, Une 2CV pour Luciano, was released in March 2012. The fourth volume in the series, La Femme du notaire, was published in January 2013. In 2018, he published Les Camions du diable, the second volume of the adventures of Marc Jaguar, the character created by Maurice Tillieux in 1954, in collaboration with François Walthéry and Étienne Borgers. In 2020, he publishes L'Écho de la taiga, the first part of a diptych focusing on the Cold War and the eighth adventure of Jacques Gipar. In 2022, Jacques Gipar travels along the Passage du Gois to Noirmoutier in his tenth adventure, Le Trésor de Noirmoutier. The ORIG-AMI is a cardboard shelter measuring 117 x 235 x 150 cm. It is insulating, structurally protective, foldable like an accordion, transportable like a backpack and recyclable. The homeless shelter was designed on the principle of origami, a Japanese paper-folding technique.