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Jean Roba was born on 28 July, 1930 in Schaerbeek, Belgium, is an A belgian comics artist. Discover Jean Roba's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 28 July, 1930
Birthday 28 July
Birthplace Schaerbeek, Belgium
Date of death 14 June, 2006
Died Place Brussels, Belgium
Nationality Belgium

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1930

Jean Roba (28 July 1930 – 14 June 2006) was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school.

His best-known work is Boule et Bill.

Jean Roba was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium.

In his youth, he was a reader of French magazines like Robinson and Mickey, which featured mainly American comics.

One of those that was especially influential on Roba was Katzenjammer Kids.

1951

He lived in Jette from 1951 until his death in Brussels in 2006.

1957

After working as an illustrator for different magazines and publicity agencies, he started to work as an illustrator for Spirou magazine in 1957, where he made small cartoons for the front page for a few years.

He also worked on Bonnes Soirées, another magazine from the same publisher Dupuis, where he continued the series Sa majesté mon mari after Albert Uderzo stopped.

1959

For Spirou, he made a few short stories with Yvan Delporte and collaborated on different stories of Spirou et Fantasio with André Franquin, who taught him the basics of making comics, before starting his own main series Boule et Bill in 1959, initially with stories by Maurice Rosy.

1962

Next to this series of mainly one-page comics, he started in 1962 La Ribambelle about a group of kids from various countries and racial backgrounds.

Roba was both an artist and writer, and wrote most of his own gags for Boule et Bill, while others contributed stories for La Ribambelle.

He handed over the drawing of Boule et Bill to Laurent Verron after more than 1000 pages.

His work has been translated in fourteen languages and has sold in excess of 25 million copies.

2005

In 2005, he ended on No. 100 in the election for Le plus grand Belge (The Greatest Belgian).

2006

On 6 June 2006, Roba died in Brussels, Belgium of natural causes at the age of 75.

Roba was also a Knight in the Order of Léopold.