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Maurice De Bevere (pen name: Morris) was a Belgian comics writer and artist. He was best known for creating the long-running Western comedy series "Lucky Luke" (1946-), and serving as its main artist from 1946 to his death in 2001. Lucky Luke is one of the best-selling comics series in Europe, and has been translated into 23 languages.
In 1923, Morris was born in the city of Kortrijk, located in West Flanders. It is an on old city, starting out as the Gallo-Roman settlement of Cortoriacum. It has served as a center for the flax and wool industry since the Middle Ages. Morris was educated at a Jesuit school in Aalst, East Flanders. He was bored there, and liked to draw doodles while in class.
After gaining a college degree, Morris was hired by the animation studio "Compagnie Belge d'Actualités" (CBA). Several other stars of Belgian comics started out as staff for this studio. The studio shut down following World War II. Morris then found work as an illustrator for the newspaper "Het Laatste Nieuws" (1888-), and the magazine "Moustique" (1924-). He specialized in drawing caricatures of then-famous movie stars.
In 1946, Morris created the "Lucky Luke" series for the comics magazine "Spirou" (1938-). It is a long-running Franco-Belgian comics magazine, that publishes stories in anthology format. The eponymous character of Morris' new series was a solitary cowboy and gunslinger who traveled across the 19th-century Wild West, persistently helping those in need. The series typically combines adventure themes with humorous situations, and a satirical view of Western tropes.
Early in his work for "Spirou", Morris became closely associated with the magazine's leading artists of this period. They were Jijé (Joseph Gillain, 1914-1980), André Franquin (1924-1997), and Will (Willy Maltaite, 1927-2000). Together, they became known as "La bande des quatre" ("Gang of Four").
In 1948, Morris temporarily moved to the United States, along with Jijé and Franquin. He was interested in finding out what remained of the Wild West, and he also wanted to meet and interact with American comics artist. Morris remained in the United States until 1954. He befriended the American artists Jack Davis (1924 - 2016), and Harvey Kurtzman (1924-1993). He helped his new pals launch the humor magazine "Mad" (1952-2018) for the publisher EC Comics.
During his stay in the United States, Morris became acquainted with the French expatriate comics writer René Goscinny (1926-1977). Following their return to Europe, they decided to collaborate in the "Lucky Luke" series. Goscinny served as the series' main writer from 1955 to his death in 1977. He developed a supporting cast for the main character, which helped the series in gaining popularity.
Until 1968, nearly all Lucky Luke adventures and comic albums were printed by the publishing house Dupuis, the parent company of "Spirou". The company had a series of financial difficulties in the late 1960s, and Morris decided to switch publishers. In 1967, the "Lucky Luke" series started being printed in the comics magazine "Pilote" (1959-1989), the flagship publication of the publisher Dargaud.
In 1984, Morris allowed the adaptation of the "Lucky Luke" series into an English-language animated series by the studio Hanna-Barbera. Though it was not the first adaptation of the series in animation, it helped introduce the series to an American audience. It was released in syndication in the United States.
Until the 1980s, Morris focused all his efforts in the "Lucky Luke" series. In 1987, he launched the spin-off comic book series "Rantanplan" (1987-2011), focusing on a dimwitted, accident-prone, and gluttonous guard dog that had served as a supporting character for Lucky Luke since 1960. The character is a spoof of Rin Tin Tin. The spin-off series had the guard dog traveling the world, getting involved in misadventures, and always misunderstanding the world surrounding him.
In 2001, Morris suffered an accidental fall while trying to repair the roof of his residence. He was hospitalized, but suffered a pulmonary embolism while he was bedridden. He died in July 2001, at the age of 77. The "Lucky Luke" series has since continued under other writers and artists. Several of Morris' key characters have remained popular over the decades, and have starred in an ever-increasing number of adaptations.- Terry 'Bam Bam' Gordy was born on 23 April 1961 in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for WWE Raw (1993), WWF Superstars (1986) and Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) (1986). He died on 16 July 2001 in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, USA.
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She spent her childhood and youth in the country. In 1936 she trained as a pilot in Berlin. In addition to her passion for flying, she already demonstrated strong aspirations for emancipation and a pronounced defiance of social conventions at this time. As a pilot, she initially took part in German Air Force exercises. She also worked as a "pilot" in testing brand-new machines from Flugzeugwerke Friedrich in Strausberg. In 1939, Köstlin married her flight instructor Hans-Jürgen Uhse, whose name she bore from then on and with whom she had a child who died of cancer in 1984. During the Second World War, Uhse transferred fighter-bombers to the front. A year before the end of the war, she survived a serious plane accident, while her husband was killed in the war. After the end of the war and British captivity, the single widow kept herself afloat as a farm worker and traveling salesman in Schleswig-Holstein. Due to her numerous customer contacts with the rural population, she soon developed a special feeling for the private problems of rural women.
After initially creating and distributing free educational brochures, Uhse launched her first commercial educational campaign in Flensburg in 1946, which laid the foundation for her later entrepreneurial activities: The dedicated educator sold the "Schrift X", which had already sold 32,000 copies in 1947. She advised women on contraceptive methods, which were primarily based on calculating infertile days. The guide to contraception that she wrote was in great demand among young couples in the post-war years, as there were numerous unwanted pregnancies among them. In 1949 Uhse married the Flensburg businessman Ernst-Walter Rotermund, with whom she had another child and from whom she separated again in 1972. In 1950 she had the "mail order company Beate Uhse" entered in the Flensburg commercial register. In the 1950s, Uhse expanded its small shipping company into a thriving trading company by expanding its product range.
The success was based on the business idea of taking erotic merchandise out of the taboo zone and opening it up to the general market through solid information and discreet shipping conditions. By offering its "marital hygiene products" under its own name right from the start, Uhse gave mail order sales a personal and serious touch that promoted customer trust. This was also reflected in the numerous letters that the mail order company received since then, and Uhse initially answered their questions about love, eroticism and sexuality herself before leaving it to a doctor. However, the sending of condoms to unmarried couples soon collided with the moral law of the 1950s, which, on the basis of Section 184 of the Criminal Code, which had been in force since 1919, criminalized extramarital sexual intercourse and aiding and abetting it. Uhse's company struggled for decades with investigations by the public prosecutor's office, house searches and publication bans on its catalogs until the criminal law provisions were liberalized in 1975. Against the protests from politics and the church, Uhse campaigned for a liberalization of moral regulations in Germany.
Despite all the resistance, the mail order company's sales reached one million DM in 1956. In 1962, the busy entrepreneur founded the world's first sex shop with her "specialist shop for marital hygiene" in Flensburg. The demand for sex items was so great that a chain of stores quickly developed. After divorcing Rotermund, Uhse married John Holland in 1972. In 1974 their company was called GmbH & Co. KG. The individual business for sex products became a corporation in 1978. Uhse continually tried to come up with new business ideas and offers. A film rental company was added in 1978. The entrepreneur took over other smaller competitors in the market and her company continued to grow. In 1981, the group became a stock corporation that already operated 12 of its own "Blue Movie" cinemas and asserted itself as the market leader in the porn film industry. Here in particular, Uhse's work also met with vehement criticism from the women's movement, which attacked the pornographic industry because of its sexist and misogynistic tendencies. Nevertheless, Uhse's mail order business expanded to become the largest of its kind.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, their stores sprouted like mushrooms in the new federal states. In the 1990s, radio and television in particular became aware of the agile businesswoman, who withdrew from direct management in 1992 in order to only be represented on the company's supervisory board. In 1996 Uhse celebrated its 50th anniversary Business anniversary. In the same year, the "Beate Uhse Erotic Museum" was opened in Berlin. Not only Uhse's achievements in the commercial sector were recognized, but above all her contribution to sexual education in post-war German society. In 1999 she was honored with the erection of a public memorial plaque in Flensburg. A specially created Beate Uhse Women Entrepreneurs Award was intended to honor women who have demonstrated courage, assertiveness, creativity, business acumen, social commitment and leadership in business.
Meanwhile, Uhse's company had also kept pace with the development of the latest technologies, so that the erotic articles were increasingly distributed via telephone, BTX and the Internet. With the expansion of new media, the company's Internet activities also expanded. The "Aktuelle Information" (AI) group of companies was taken over for this line of business. All websites were tailored to customer needs and designed accordingly. But the company also expanded internationally. It founded other branches and companies, for example in Scandinavia. The publishing business was expanded to Sweden, Denmark and Finland. In the Netherlands, majority packages were purchased from other erotic providers. In 1999 the company went public.- Producer
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