Morris born on December 1, 1923, in Courtai (Belgium) and died on July 16, 2001.
After learning animation techniques through correspondence courses taught by Jean Image, Maurice de Bévère—who later adopted the pseudonym Morris—joined the CBA, a Belgian animation studio, at the age of 20. There, he worked as an inker. When the studio closed, he joined André Franquin Will at Jijé. This group of illustrators was quickly nicknamed “The Gang of Four.” In 1945, Morris as an illustrator, producing a large number of drawings and covers for *Le Moustique* and *Het Laatste Nieuws*. The following year, he created the character Lucky Luke. The first adventure of the famous lone cowboy, “Arizona 1880,” appeared in late 1946 in the Spirou Almanac, followed by the beginning of “Dig Digger’s Gold Mine,” which ran in the weekly Spirou magazine Spirou in 1947. While continuing to work on Lucky Luke Dupuis—the series was also published in collected volumes starting in 1949— Morris to the United States. There, he met Jack Davis and Harvey Kurtzman and witnessed the launch of MAD magazine in 1950. In addition to these two artists, he met René Goscinny, whom he brought on as a writer upon his return to Europe in 1955. Their collaboration began in August 1955 in Spirou with *Des Rails sur la Prairie* and continued until 1977, the year of Goscinny’s death.
At the same time, Morris with Pierre Vankeer to create *La Chronique du 9e Art* from 1964 to 1967, as well as a few short stories, also published in Spirou*. In 1968, Lucky Luke in *Pilote*, in the short-lived monthly Lucky Luke from March 1974 to February 1975), and then in the mainstream press.
After Goscinny’s death, he collaborated with various writers: Vicq, Bob de Groot, Xavier Fauche, Jean Léturgie, Hartog van Banda, Guy Vidal … and several assistants: Michel Janvier, Frédéric Garcia …
In 1983, Lucky Luke to quit smoking, and on avril 7, avril , in Geneva, Morris honored by the WHO (World Health Organization) as part of World No Tobacco Day for setting a good example.
Starting in 1987, alongside the Lucky Luke adventures, he began work on the Rantanplan series. In late 1990, he left Dargaud founded his own publishing company, Lucky Productions.
An exceptional tribute: on June 27, 1992, the Académie des Grands Prix awarded him the 20th Anniversary Special Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival; this was a unanimous recognition of Morris talent Morris his peers.
Finally, it should be noted that Lucky Luke, translated into more than 30 languages, has enjoyed unwavering success to this day, making it—along with Tintin Asterix—one of the greatest classics of French-language comics.
Morris one of the few authors whose entire body of work is devoted to a single hero.
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