Belgian cartoonist Sidney, who wrote historical stories for the newspaper Tintin in the 1960s and 1970s alongside screenwriter Yves Duval, died on Thursday at the age of 91, publisher Le Lombard announced on Friday.
Sidney, whose real name was Paul Ramboux, was also known for the series “Julie, Claire, Cécile”, based on scripts by Michel De Bom (known as Bom) and telling the adventures of three young girls from childhood to adulthood.
This series of 24 albums, created in the early 1980s, had fed the pages of the newspaper Tintin, of which Sidney was, according to Lombard, a mainstay.
Sidney also worked for Spirou, under pseudonyms such as Kovak and Malois, the publisher recalled in a press release. He illustrated “around sixty beautiful stories by Uncle Paul + as well as a long biography of Marco Polo,” according to the press release.
The weekly newspaper “Tintin,” published in 1946, reached its peak in the 1970s with a circulation of 240,000 copies. It ceased publication in 1988.
After studying at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels, Sidney joined the studio of the newspaper Tintin as a “page editor” before starting to draw his first short stories.