Morris (Maurice de Bevere)

Maurice De Bevere (Known as "Morris")

Comic Book Master, Creator of Lucky Luke and The Daltons, Western Parodist

Born Dec 01, 1923

Kortrijk (West Flanders), Belgium

Passed Away Jul 16, 2001 Brussels, Belgium

Lifespan 77 years old

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"I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, and a long way from home..."

Archival Overview

Belgian comic book creator who created Lucky Luke, 'the man who shoots faster than his own shadow', crafting alongside writer René Goscinny the definitive humorous Western saga.

Biographical Record

Trained as an animator, Morris joined Spirou magazine in 1946, creating the cowboy Lucky Luke and his philosophical horse Jolly Jumper in Arizona 1880. Morris traveled to the United States for six years, researching authentic frontier archives and meeting Goscinny in New York.

From 1955 onward, the Morris-Goscinny partnership generated dozens of legendary albums featuring the bumbling Dalton brothers, Calamity Jane, and the world's dumbest dog, Rantanplan. Over 300 million Lucky Luke albums were sold worldwide, and Morris received the Grand Prix Spécial at Angoulême.

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Schaerbeek Cemetery
Schaerbeek (Brussels), Belgium

                         GPS: 50.8667, 4.3833                    

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