Artbook Thorgal - 40 ans by Grzegorz Rosiński

'La Vengeance du Comte Skarbek' #2 - 'Un Coeur de Bronze' (2005).Īlways a perfectionist, Rosinski does everything himself, including the inking and lettering. He made a new one shot with Van Hamme for Lombard in 2001, this time in the western genre, aptly named 'Western'. 'La Complainte des Landes Perdues' #3 - 'Dame Gerfaut' (1996).īetween 19 Rosinski made four books in the series 'La Complainte des Landes Perdues' with writer Jean Dufaux for Dargaud publishers. The original story appeared in black and white, it reprinted in color as a trilogy in 20. In 1988 Rosinski and Van Hamme made the critically acclaimed fantasy graphic novel 'Le Grand pouvoir du Chninkel' for Casterman's Les Romans (A suivre) collection. After six episodes, Rosinski handed over the artwork of 'Hans' to Kas to focus on 'Thorgal'. Three years after the launch of the 'Thorgal' saga, Rosinski teamed up with Duchâteau to create the science fiction series 'Hans'. Hans #3 - 'Les Mutants de Xanaïa' (1986). He had his breakthrough with the fantastic 'Thorgal' series, written by Jean van Hamme and first serialized in Tintin magazine in 1977. His first comics were 'L'Assassin' for Tintin, short stories in Le Trombone Illustré and 'La Croisiere Fantastique' in Spirou under the pseudonym Rosek. Rosinski came to Brussels and began a prolific career in Belgian comics.

Short story from Le Trombone Illustré, 14 April 1977. In the mid-1970s, he met André-Paul Duchâteau and Jean Van Hamme, who were very impressed by Rosinski's talent. Rosinski became art director of the magazine Relax in 1976, and also also took on historical and science fiction stories for this magazine. From 1974 to 1976 he and Barbara Seidler made three bilingual books with comic adaptations of Polish legends. He started his drawing career in Korespondent Wszedobylski and he illustrated about 20 comic books in the series 'Kapitan Zbik' and 'Pilot Smiglowca' for the Polish publisher Sport i Turystyka between 19. He studied Graphic Arts in Warsaw from 1961 to 1967. He made his first comics in 1955, aged 16, and two years later he became editor-in-chief of a scouting magazine. He discovered Western European comics through the Vaillant magazine, that was distributed in Eastern Europe by the French Communist Party.

Born in Stalowa Wola, Grzegorz Rosinski grew up in Poland during the communist reign.

Artbook Thorgal - 40 ans by Grzegorz Rosiński