Background
Ray Goossens was born in Merksem, Belgium in 1924.
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Ray Goossens was born in Merksem, Belgium in 1924.
Interested in animation from before World World War II, he founded the AFIM animation studios with Henri Winkeler and Edmond Roex in 1939. They had 15 employees, including later famous comics artists like Bob de Moor and Jef Nys. They created a number of short animated movies, of which Smidje Smee was the most successful.
After the war, Goossens started working as a comics creator with Kleine Zondagsvriend, a weekly youth magazine.
He created a number of series, some based on existing stories like Tijl Uilenspiegel and Reinaert de Vos, some new like Tsjoem (a parrot) and Snops en de bende. He also worked as an illustrator for different newspapers and magazines, including Gazet van Antwerpen.
He worked as an animator mainly for client"s publicity purposes, and in 1957 became artistic director of Belvision, the new animation studios of Le Lombard, one of the major Belgian comics publishers. At first, they created series based on existing comics series like Oumpah-pah, Hergé"s Adventures of Tintin or Chlorophylle.
They also made the full-length movie Pinocchio in Outer Space.
From 1956 to 1969 he worked as an independent animator and director In 1967 he directed Asterix the Gaul, the first feature film based on this comic, and in 1968 he joined Dupuis, where he created with the animation studios a number of children"s series like Tip en Tap, De Pili"s and Musti, which was based on a character he had already created in 1945. He also directed a series based on the adventures of Boule et Bill.
From 1976 onwards, Ray Goossens taught animation at the R.I.T.C.S in Brussels.
His final success as a director followed in 1980, with Plons de gekke kikker. Ray Goossens died in 1998 in Deurne.
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(ΞAΦNIKA, ENAΣ AΛΛOΣ ΛAΓOΣ BΓAINEI ΠIΣΩ AΠO TOYΣ ΘAMNOYΣ."...)
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