Willy Lambil

After his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Lambil entered Dupuis editions as a letterer at the age of 16. In 1959, he created the Sandy and Hoppy series with Henri Gillain. This semi-realistic series takes place in Australia and tells the adventures of a young boy, Sandy, and his kangaroo Hoppy. After the first episode, Gillain abandoned the series, of which Lambil then became the sole author. Sandy and Hoppy was published in Le Journal de Spirou from 1959 to 1974. For the same magazine, he drew a few episodes of Les Belles Histoires de l'Oncle Paul. In 1972, following the premature death of Louis Salvérius, Lambil became the designer of the series Les Tuniques bleues, scripted by Raoul Cauvin. His involvement in Les Tuniques bleues encourages Lambil to put an end to the adventures of Sandy, who will not be taken up by another craftsman. Lambil is also the cartoonist of Pauvre Lampil, a humorous series featuring a cartoonist to whom all the misfortunes happen. Despite a break following the decision of his friend Raoul Cauvin to stop his work as a screenwriter for Les Tuniques bleues (for album #65 (L'Envoyé Spécial), Lambil took up the pencil again for album #66.