Victor Hubinon

(1924 - 1979, Belgium)

Victor Hubinon studied decoration, painting, etching and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège. After the Second World War, in which he fled to England and served in the Royal Navy, he got a job as advertising artist at the newspaper La Meuse. In 1946, he started working for Spirou magazine, where he created 'Buck Danny', along with writer Georges Troisfontaines, (who was soon replaced by Jean-Michel Charlier).

During the fifties, Hubinon worked on several comics, for instance Jijé's 'Blondin et Cirage', and various biographies, such as 'Surcouf', 'Mermoz' and 'Stanley'. For the magazine Pilote, he created, again with writer Charlier, 'Le Démon des Caraibes', later named 'Les Aventures de Barbe-Rouge et d' Éric', a sea-adventure series that ran until 1967.

Hubinon then did many illustrations for several magazines. His last comic was 'La Mouette', a story about a female pirate, written by Gigi Marechal, who modeled for the heroine. He died suddenly in 1979, suffering a heart-attack while working at his drawing table.