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- Raymond Leblanc was born on May 22, 1915 in Longlier, Belgium. He was a producer and director, known for Asterix the Gaul (1967), Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972) and The Down-in-the-Hole Gang (1974). He died on March 21, 2008 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Raymond was named the comic-book industry's first recipient of the "Alph-Art d'Honneur" prize in 2003, at the 30th annual comic book festival in Angouleme, France, the industry's main awards ceremony and show.
- He founded the Lombard publishing house, for readers "from 7 to 77". He sold the company in 1986. He also launched the ad agency Publiart, which often used cartoon characters; and Belvision studios, which created hand-drawn animation for TV.
- He was a resistance fighter during World War II.
- He was the Belgian publisher of the popular "Tintin" comic-book magazine. Leblanc started the weekly in 1946 with the participation of Georges Rémi (nom de plume "Hergé"), who had created the character Tintin in 1929. Under Leblanc's guidance, the boy reporter became the hero of a weekly children's magazine, with Hergé as the artistic director.
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