Hubuc

After being a radio technician in the Merchant Navy, Roger Copuse became a sports journalist in the early sixties. A little later on, he started making comics under the pseudonym Hubuc. He made a score of stories in Spirou's "mini-books" section from 1961 to 1967. He cooperated with Jacques Devos on 'Les Mémoires de Victor Sébastopol' and did the independent stories 'Le Labyrinthe' and 'Dans le Sillage des Argonautes'.

In 1966, he started working for Pilote, where he made series 'L'Aéromédon Populaire' with scripts by Fred. He also wrote the first episodes of 'Tulipe et Minibus' for artist Mike and later Claire Bretécher. From 1968, he made the satirical gag comic 'Le Travail' for the magazine. These gag pages were later collected in the album 'Et Voilà le Travail' at Dargaud. Hubuc was also present in Tintin magazine, with series like 'Poncho Bomba' (artwork by Mike), 'Chlorophylle et Minimum' and 'Wilbur et Mimosa' (both with artwork by Pierre Guilmard). In 1970, he also did the artwork on some short stories with 'Chlorophylle'. In 1969, he did 'Ces Temps Étaient Dur' in Le Soir Illustré, a supplement of newspaper Le Soir. He passed away from leucemia at the age of 42 in 1970.