Zyx (cartoonist)
Jacques Hurtubise, better known as Zyx, was a Canadian cartoonist and publisher. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in November 1950 and died in Montreal on 11 December 2015 at age 65. He became a leading figure in Quebec comics during the 1970s and 1980s and co-founded Croc magazine in 1979 with Hélène Fleury and Roch Côté.
His early work included L'Hydrocéphale Illustré (November 1971), made with Gilles Desjardins and Françoise Barrette, which was not a success. He then helped form the Coopérative des Petits Dessins. In the 1970s he produced over 200 comic strips for Le Jour, featuring Le Sombre Vilain and his sidekick Bill, a pizza-loving boa constrictor. These adventures continued in Croc.
Hurtubise is one of the few Québécois cartoonists featured in major reference works on comics, such as Le Dictionnaire mondial de la Bande Dessinée and The World Encyclopedia of Comics. He won the Joe Shuster Award in 2007. His writings and letters are kept at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. He also ran for the Rhinoceros Party in 1979 in Papineau.
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