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Bernard Hislaire
Bernard Hislaire (born 11 January 1957) is a Belgian comic book creator. He is also known as Sylaire and as Yslaire, his current artist name.
Biography.
Bernard Hislaire was born in 1957 in Brussels, Belgium. Passionate about comics since he was very young, he produced his first drawings in the "Robidule" fanzine, and worked on his style at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. At the age of 18, he joined the drawing team of the "Spirou" magazine
publication of comics like "XIII" and "Jeremiah", the focus is again fixed on humour series and an audience of young teenagers. Now famous artists like Bernard Hislaire, Zep, Tome, Janry or Midam debut or still publish in the magazine.
But next to the magazine, Dupuis, like all the other editors, targets the older audience as well with a collection of graphic novels.
Both Lombard and Dupuis have since been bought by the French media concern Média Participations, but retain a large degree of