Dupa

Luc Dupanloup, who used the pseudonym Dupa, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels in the 1960s. Afterwards, he became the assistant of Greg, and cooperated on the backgrounds of 'Zig et Puce' and 'Achille Talon'. He has also cooperated on 'Fifi', 'Fleurette', 'Luc Junior' and Tootsy'.

He joined Tintin magazine in 1966, where he created the famous dog 'Cubitus' two years later. The adventures of the sympathetic, fluffy white dog gained immediate popularity, and the comic eventually got its own magazine in 1989. More than 100 animated shows have been made 'Cubitus', and have been broadcast in Belgium and abroad.

In addition, Dupa drew the series 'Petit Biniou' from 1968 to 1970. In 1972, Dupa took over the famous series 'Chlorophylle' from Macherot (with text by Greg and Bob de Groot). He has also written scenarios for Éric ('Coup d'Oeil' and 'Le Verrou') at Dargaud in 1984, and he was co-author of 'Alice au Pays des Merveilles' together with Greg, Dany, Turk and De Groot. From 1980, he occasionally drew stories of 'Niky', a female truck driver. However, Dupa with always be rembered for the series 'Cubitus', which made him one of the classic artists of the magazine Tintin.