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| Parent company | Média-Participations (1986–present) |
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| Founded | 1946; 80 years ago (1946) |
| Founder | Raymond Leblanc André Sinave |
| Country of origin | Belgium |
| Headquarters location | Belgium |
| Distribution | Belgium,France,Netherlands,Switzerland,Canada |
| Fiction genres | Comic albums and magazines |
| Official website | www |
Le Lombard (French:[ləlɔ̃baʁ]), known asLes Éditions du Lombard ([lez‿edisjɔ̃dylɔ̃baʁ]) until 1989, is aBelgiancomic book publisher established in 1946 whenTintin magazine was launched. Le Lombard became part ofMédia-Participations since 1986, alongside publishersDargaud andDupuis, with each entity maintaining its editorial independence.[1]
Les Éditions du Lombard was established byRaymond Leblanc and his partners on September 26, 1946. Wanting to create an illustrated youth magazine, they decided that the already well-knownTintin would be the perfect hero. Business partner André Sinave went to see Tintin creatorHergé to propose creating the magazine. Hergé, who had worked forLe Soir during the war, was being prosecuted for having collaborated with the Germans and did not have a publisher at the time.[2] After consulting with his friendEdgar Pierre Jacobs, Hergé agreed. The first issue ofTintin magazine was published on 26 September 1946.[3] Simultaneously, a Dutch version was also published, entitledKuifje (Kuifje being the name of Tintin in Dutch). 40,000 copies were printed in French, and 20,000 in Dutch.[2]
In 1986, Le Lombard was acquired byMédia-Participations, and today publishes around one hundred titles annually. More recently, in 2015, Le Lombard joined with twelve other European comics publishing actors to createEurope Comics, a digital initiative co-funded by the European Commission'sCreative Europe program.[4]
This is a selected list of comics series, ordered by year of first publication by Le Lombard, with main authors given. A few series were also continued or temporarily taken over by other artists and writers.[5]
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