Ray Ringo receives from Wells Fargo mandated to protect
stagecoaches before Indians and bandits and bring safely to their destination.
Ringo was a French-Belgium comic book series published from
1965-1978.
William Vance drew the Western series and wrote the first
and final story. Other copywriters were
Jacques Acar, Yves Duval and André-Paul Duchâteau. The series was published between 1965 and
1966 in between the Belgian and French issue of Tintin. The remaining episodes
came out in Tintin Sélection. Le Lombard
began the albums in 1967 the albums and in 2004 a complete edition was
published in the series Tout Vance. The
German First published came from MV Comix. More stories followed in Old Zack
and in Zack Parade. The publisher Feest released two albums.
William Vance
(William Van Cutsem) was born in Anderlecht, Belgium on September 8, 1935. He
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and worked in the advertising
industry. He got started as a cartoonist
by working as an assistant to Dino Attanasio. He received an appointment
working on Tintin, where he worked as an illustrator and his first short
stories and series were recorded. He
then worked on the comic book Bruno Brazil.
In 1967 the Belgian women's magazine Femme d'Aujourd'hui urgently needed a replacement draftsman for the
currently playing episode of Bob Morane which required, he jump into in the
short term, eventually taking over the adventure series. The collaboration with
Femme d'Aujourd'hui lasted until 1983
and brought in addition to the individual works SOS Nature and Mongwy and more
series like the seafaring adventure Bruce J. Hawker.
He celebrated his greatest success with the agent series
XIII, which he created along with Jean Van Hamme. Among his most important
collaborators included his wife Petra as a colorist, his brother Felicísimo
Coria and René Follet. He lives in Spain
and in 2010 went into retirement, as the first signs of Parkinson's disease
became noticeable.
