Paul Jamin began his career drawing for scouting magazines. His first comic was 'La Belgique à travers les Ages', which appeared in Boy-Scout in 1930-31. He was one of Hergé's collaborators in the days of Le Petit Vingtième. Together with Hergé, Jamin worked on the editorial pages of this magazine from 1930 to 1936. They signed their work under the collective pseudonym of Oncle Jo. Between 1935 and 1944 he worked for numerous magazines, signing his work mostly with Jam, Jamin or Alfred Gérard. In 1936, Jamin began working as a political caricaturist for the daily Le Pays Réel.
During the War, Jamin drew for such publications as Le Soir and Brüsseler Zeitung. He launched Le Soir-Jeunesse together with Hergé and Jacques van Melkebeke, a supplement of Le Soir under German supervision. For this publication, he did the editorial pages under the pseudonym Monsieur Triplesec. He made various anti-semitic drawings during the War, which got him sentenced to death after the Liberation. However, this wasn't executed, and Jamin was released from prison in 1952. He took on his artistic career again, and did caricatures for the satirical weekly Pan, using the pseudonym Alidor. He was also present in Spirou with nine "mini-stories", as well as the continuing story 'Le Vol du Bourdon' (with the character Ernest Lecrac) in 1962.
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