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Nationality
  
Belgian

Name
  
Andre Geerts

Awards
  
full list

Notable works
  
Jojo

Area(s)
  
Writer, Artist


Andre Geerts

Born
  
18 December 1955 Brussels, Belgium (
1955-12-18
)

Died
  
27 July 2010(2010-07-27) (aged 54)

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André Geerts (18 December 1955 – 27 July 2010) was a Belgian comics creator best known for his series Jojo.

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Biography

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André Geerts was born in Brussels in 1955. He studied at the Institut Saint-Luc art school in Brussels. He started working for Le Soir Jeunesse (the youth supplement of newspaper Le Soir) in 1974, when he was only 18 years old, before joining the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou. His success series Jojo, about the small scale, real life but humoristic adventures of a boy of seven years old, started in 1983, with on average one new album a year. He also created later on Mademoiselle Louise, about a girl of about the same age as Jojo, but who is extremely rich and lonely.

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Geerts died in 2010 from cancer.

Awards

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  • 1980: Prix Saint-Michel for best comical artist
  • 1994: Oecumenic Jury Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for the first volume of Mademoiselle Louise
  • 1997: Grand Prix of the city of Durbuy for Monde Cruel
  • 1998: Crayon d'or (Golden Pencil) of the city of Brussels, awarded by the Belgian Chamber of Comic Experts
  • 2003: Grand prix of the city of Brussels, awarded at the festival of Ganshoren
  • 2003: Prix Saint-Michel for best French language youth comic for Jojo
  • 2007: Prize of the Young Readers at the Festival of Vaison-la-Romaine for Jojo 16: Jojo vétérinaire
  • 2007: nominated for the Prix Saint-Michel for best youth comic for Jojo 16: Jojo vétérinaire
  • 2008: nominated for the Prix Saint-Michel for best youth comic for Jojo 17: Confisqué

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    References

    André Geerts Wikipedia
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