Yvan Delporte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yvan Delporte

writer

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1928

Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 05-Mar-2007

Profession: editor-in-chief, comics writer

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Yvan Delporte (24 June 1928 – 5 March 2007) was a Belgian comics writer, and was editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine between 1955 and 1968 during a period considered by many the golden age of Franco-Belgian comics.
He is credited with several creative contributions, among these his collaborations with Peyo on The Smurfs, with René Follet on Steve Severin (1/2) and André Franquin with the creation of Gaston Lagaffe and the co-authorship of Idées noires.