Jacques Stoquart

Jacques Stoquart is attracted to a career as an illustrator. He works for various advertising agencies and eventually becomes an independent copywriter in 1973. The comic book industry knocks on his door, and after many hesitations, Jacques Stoquart agrees to write "Les Galops d'enfer" (1973) for Mitacq.

Meeting Michel Greg in 1974 will however be a decisive moment in his career as a scriptwriter. He creates several new characters for the TINTIN magazine and its collaborators, such as Wen and Rorika for Eric (Frédéric Delzant), Ivan Zourine for René Follet, and Ramiro for William Vance. A similar collaboration with the competitive magazine, SPIROU, forces him to adopt the ironic pseudonym "Lemasque" for his work on Stany Derval, for Mitacq. He also writes a short Natacha story for François Walthéry under this alias (Un tour de passe-passe, 1975).

Disappointed by readers' reactions to these weeklies in the annual ratings, Stoquart withdraws and returns to advertising. At the urgent request of his friend
René Follet, he takes up scriptwriting again ten years later. The duo tries to revive Jean Valhardi and then adapt detective stories written by John Flanders, for Éditions Claude Lefrancq.

Stoquart has also written scripts for two biographies of model characters for the illustrator Cécile Schmitz ("L'Homme de Molokaï", then "Nous n'irons pas à Jérusalem" or "La vie d'Ignace de Loyola") and has adapted a novel by Isaac Asimov for Eric Loutte at Claude Lefrancq ("Les poisons de Mars").

Though he denies being a scriptwriter, he has nonetheless created a number of impressive works that will always remain classics of a comic book era.