Remacle/Old Nick and Blackbeard. Original plate... Lot 376

Remacle/Old Nick and Blackbeard. Original plate #34 from album T18 "Le feu de la colère". India ink circa 1974. TBE+. 34 X 45 cm Marcel Remacle started out as an illustrator at the age of 18, at the end of the war, under the pseudonym of Ted Smedley in the Belgian newspapers Le Moustique, Pourquoi Pas, En marche, L'Ane roux... In 1956, he joined Dupuis, where he created the character Bobosse, who appeared in Risque-tout and Spirou. In 1958, he created the character Vieux Nick for Spirou. For reasons known only to French censors, who were very active in the 50s and 60s, the innocuous first volume of his adventures, "Pavillons Noirs", was long banned in France. In 1964, he began a parallel series, Hultrasson le Viking, which was not very successful. He had stopped drawing in the late 1980s when he died in December 1999.