Madila, by Chantal de Spiegeleer
'Madila'. 

Chantal De Spiegeleer was born in 1957 in Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1957. From 1974 on, she studied arts at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels, where she worked in Claude Renard's Atelier R. Her first comic pages were published in Le Neuvième Rêve. In 1982, Moretti published her first album, 'Mirabelle'. Afterwards, De Spiegeleer turned to the advertising field. In 1985, she started traveling with René Sterne and she became the colorist on Sterne's 'Adler' series. Three years later, she started her own series, 'Madila', a saga set in the middle of an imaginary city. She drew four albums of the series until 1995. She and Sterne settled on the Grenadine isles. In 2004, De Spiegeleer began the series 'Éclipse' with Jules d'Oultremont at Lombard.

After René Sterne died in 2006, De Spiegeleer completed the 'Blake & Mortimer' story 'La Malédiction des Trente Coins' that he was working on, for him. It was released in 2009. 

De Spiegeleer was one of several artists to make a graphic contribution to 'Pepperland’ (1980), a collective comic book tribute to the store Pepperland, to celebrate its 10th anniversary at the time. 

In 2025, De Spiegeleer died at age 67. 

Madila, by Chantal de Spiegeleer
'Madila'. 

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