Morris

Maurice De Bevere (1 December 1923 – 16 July 2001), better known as Morris, was a Belgian cartoonist, comics artist, illustrator and the creator of Lucky Luke, a bestselling comic series about a gunslinger in the American Wild West. He was inspired by the adventures of the historic Dalton Gang and other outlaws. It was a bestselling series for more than 50 years that was translated into 23 languages and published internationally. He collaborated for two decades with French writer René Goscinny on the series. Morris's pen name is an Anglicized version of his first name.

Born in Kortrijk, Belgium, Morris attended the well-known Jesuit college in Aalst. His math teacher told his parents the youth would unfortunately never succeed in life, as he passed math classes doodling in the margin of his math books. The student uniforms required there inspired his choices for those of the undertakers in his Lucky Luke cartoon series.

Morris started his career after college drawing in the Compagnie Belge d'Actualités (CBA) animation studios. This was a small and short-lived Belgian animation studio, where he met fellow artists Peyo, André Franquin and Eddy Paape.

After World War II, the company folded. Morris worked as an illustrator for Het Laatste Nieuws, a Flemish newspaper, and Le Moustique, a French-language weekly magazine published by Dupuis. He made some 250 covers and numerous other illustrations for the latter magazine, mainly caricatures of movie stars.

Morris died in 2001 of an embolism following an accidental fall.

In 1946, Morris created Lucky Luke for Spirou magazine, the Franco-Belgian comics magazine published by Dupuis. Lucky Luke is a solitary cowboy who travels across the Wild West, helping those in need and aided by his faithful horse, Jolly Jumper. The first adventure, "Arizona 1880", was published in L'Almanach Spirou 1947, released on 7 December 1946.

Morris became one of the central artists of the magazine. He was one of the so-called La bande des quatre (Gang of Four), with Jijé, André Franquin, and Will. All four lived and worked for a couple of years at Jijé's studio in Waterloo, and became very good friends, stimulating each other artistically.

In 1948, Morris, Jijé and Franquin travelled to the United States (Will was still too young and had to remain in Belgium). They wanted to get to know the country, see what was left of the Wild West, and meet some American comic artists. Morris stayed the longest of the three, for six years. During his six-year stay in the U.S. Morris met Jack Davis and Harvey Kurtzman, and assisted them with founding their Mad magazine at EC Comics. In the U.S. he also met René Goscinny, a French comic artist and writer.

They developed a long collaboration, and Goscinny wrote all the Lucky Luke stories between 1955 and his death in 1977. In the 1950s, Goscinny was still fairly unknown, but he became the most successful comic writer in Europe, first with Lucky Luke and a few years later with his Asterix series. ...

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Lucky Luke

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Lucky Luke and the Daltons

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Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons

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Daisy Town

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Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure

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Lucky Luke

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Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose

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The New Adventures of Lucky Luke

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The Daltons

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Lucky Luke 2

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The Cowboy Who Loves His Horse

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Lucky Luke: Dalton City

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Lucky Luke - Doc Doxey

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Lucky Luke: End of Legend

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Lucky Luke Le Cavalier Blanc

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Lucky Luke il treno fantasma

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Judge Roy Bean

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Lucky Luke 1 - Billy The Kid

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Rantanplan

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L'héritage De Rantanplan

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Lucky Luke - Bootrace Op De Mississipi

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Lucky Luke 4 - Vejen Til Oklahoma

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Lucky Luke - Aasgieren Boven De Prairie

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Lucky Luke: Den Enarmade Banditen

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Lucky Luke - Het 20ste Cavalerie

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Lucky Luke - Dalton contre Sherlock Holmes

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Lucky Luke - De Erfenis Van Rataplan

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Lucky Luke - Voor Een Paar Grijpstuivers

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Lucky Luke - De Daltons Breken Uit

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Lucky Luke Mr Joseph

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Lucky Luke - Hoeraatje Voor Holly Woods

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Lucky Luke - Ongelukkig In De Liefde

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Lucky Luke - Prikkeldraad In De Prairie

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Lucky Luke - Tortillas Voor De Daltons

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Lucky Luke 5 - Den Syngende Tråd

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Lucky Luke - De Daltons In De Blizzard

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Lucky Luke - De Bende Van Joss Jamon

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Lucky Luke 9 - Den Hvide Kavaler

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Lucky Luke - De Schat Van De Daltons

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They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton

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Lucky Luke 2 - Pigtråd Over Prærien

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Lucky Luke - Des barbelés sur la prairie

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Lucky Luke - Een Betere Wereld Voor De Daltons

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Lucky Luke - De Spoorweg Door De Prairie

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Lucky Luke 8 - I Boretårnets Skygge

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Lucky Luke - Het Dalton Kerstfeest

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Lucky Luke - Western Circus

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Lucky Luke - De Spookstad

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Lucky Luke - Grønskollingen

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Lucky Luke 12 - Calamity Jane

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Lucky Luke - 9 - Custermania

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Lucky Luke - De Daltons Kopen Zich Vrij

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Nye Eventyr med Lucky Luke - Vol 4

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Lucky Luke: Bröderna Dalton blir kidnappade

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Lucky Luke - In Het Spoor Van De Daltons

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Lucky Luke - De Zingende Draad

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Lucky Luke - Liki Liki

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Lucky Luke - Fort Custer

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Lucky Luke - Des rails sur la prairie

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Lucky Luke - Cirkus Vilda Västern

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Lucky Luke - De Daltons Op Vrije Voeten

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Lucky Luke - De Postkoets

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Lucky Luke - Le Clown

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Lucky Luke - The Daily Star

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Lucky Luke 6 - Dalton Brødrene I Den Kolde Sne

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Lucky Luke - De Vliegende Cowboy

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Lucky Luke - De Eenarmige Bandiet

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Lucky Luke og de lovløse

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Lucky Luke 10 - På sporet Af Dalton Brødrene

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Lucky Luke - De Daltons Spelen Indiaantje

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Lucky Luke - De Neven Dalton

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Lucky Luke 3 - Dalton City

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Lucky Luke - De Premiejager

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The Adventures of Lucky Luke

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Lucky Luke - Een Nieuwe Vader Voor De Daltons

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Lucky Luke - De Witte Ridder

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Lucky Luke - De Legendarische Held

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Lucky Luke - Blauwvoeten Op Oorlogspad

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Lucky Luke 7 - Diligencen

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Lucky Luke - Geketende Liefde

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Jesse James

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Lukt Luke - De Rechter

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Lucky Luke - Indianen Roulette

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Lucky Luke - Het Escorte

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Lucky Luke - De Laatste Buffel

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Lucky Luke - De Sorte Bjerge

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Kid Lucky

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