Jean-Claude Servais, also known under the pseudonym Jicé, is a Belgian writer and a cartoonist born on 22nd September 1956.
Biography
editJean-Claude Servais studied graphic arts in Institut Saint-Luc in Liège frome 1974 until 1976. As early as 1975, under the pseudonym Jicé, he published his first drawing boards in the Carte blanche section in the newspaper Spirou. He continued with three episodes of Ronny Jackson, scripted by Jean-Marie Brouyère, then he prepared in 1977 two Belles Histoires de l'Oncle Paul (this time signed Gil Verse and scripted Octave Joly); however, those two stories would not be published. The same year, Jean-Claude Servais initiated a collaboration with the Journal de Tintin. He made a series of true stories on scenarios from Bom and Yves Duval. In 1978, he illustrated a few pages in the franzine Oufti, then went to do his military service in Stockem.
In 1982 he started to work on a series of stories about magic and witchcraft. Those stories would be then included in the album La Tchalette, Lombard editions in 1982. In Tintin, he drew the series Isabelle in 1983. At that time, he signed the Manifeste pour la culture wallonne.