The recently published biography of Maurice Tillieux Through Marc Hendrickx is almost sold out at the publisher The Flemish Comic Strip Center. What you still see in comic shops is the only stock. So a success. In the meantime, the French-language version is a fact and the Walloon publishing house Editions de l’Élan is also committed to publishing Tillieux’s lesser-known work. It provided, among other things, the complete series Felix in eleven carefully designed integrales in French. The integrals of this predecessor of Guus Slim all went out of print and reprints occasionally appear. In addition, Éditions de l’Élan published an entire version of Bob Bangalso a detective series from the Belgian comic magazine Héroic Albums. Other integrals are those of Zappy Max – Ça Va Bouillir, Achille et Boule-de-Gomme (Gommaar and Balthazar), Ange Signe and a collection of realistic stories Héroic Albums by Tillieux.
The next integral will be one of Tillieux’s gag series Jeff Gemakin French Ballourd & Co named. Tillieux wrote and drew this gag series between 1954 and 1964 for magazines of Belgian companies that were members of the Federal Agency for Occupational Risks (the current Fedris). The six hundred gags consist of one-strip, half- and full-page jokes that fit into an edition of 136 pages, supplemented with promotional material, posters and other bonus material from the past. Tillieux partly received the help of assistants such as Jean-Marie Brouyere and Yidehem. Their work is also included in the French-language complete, which costs 39 euros and will be officially released on December 4. In 2007 gave Editions de l’Élan has already published a collection of about two hundred gags. The new edition, on the other hand, is complete.
And now we hope that thanks to the success of the biography and continued attention to Maurice Tilieux, work can be done on the integral of Jeff Gemak in Dutch and gladly too Felix.