Maurice de Bevere
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| Born | Maurice De Bevere 1 December 1923 Kortrijk, Belgium |
| Died | 16 July 2001 (aged 77) Brussels, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Artist |
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Notable works
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Lucky Luke |
| Awards | full list |
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Maurice De Bevere (French: [mɔ.ʁis də bəvɛʁ] 1 December 1923 – 16 July 2001), better known as Morris ([mɔ.ʁis]) or Morris des Catacombes (French: [mɔ.ʁis də kætəkoʊmz]), was a Belgian cartoonist, comics artist, illustrator and the creator of Lucky Luke. His pen name is an alternate spelling of his first name.
Born in Kortrijk, Belgium. He went to school in the well-known Jesuit college in Aalst, whose suits inspired him for those of the undertakers in his Lucky Luke series. His math teacher told his parents the boy would unfortunately never succeed in life, as he passed the math classes doodling in the margin of his math books. Morris started drawing in the Compagnie Belge d'Actualités (CBA) animations studios, a small and short-lived animation studios in Belgium where he met Peyo and André Franquin. After the war, the company folded and Morris worked as an illustrator for Het Laatste Nieuws, a Flemish newspaper, and Le Moustique, a French-speaking weekly magazine published by Dupuis, for which he made some 250 covers and numerous other illustrations, mainly caricatures of movie stars.
He died in 2001 of a pulmonary embolism.
He created Lucky Luke in 1946 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, aided by his faithful horse, Jolly Jumper. The first adventure, Arizona 1880, was published in L'Almanach Spirou 1947, released on 7 December 1946.
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