Jacques Hurtubise, who uses the pseudonym Zyx, was a member of the Coopérative des Petits Dessins, a group of young Canadian artists, since 1969. In November 1971 he cooperated on the launch of the periodical l'Hydrocéphale Illustré. Later on in the 1970s he drew the comic about bad guy 'Sombre Vilain' for the daily magazine Le Jour. This series was later continued in the satirical magazine Croc, which he founded himself along with Pierre Huet. In the 1980s he co-founded yet another magazine, Titanic, which wasn't that successful however. Not only because of his talents in graphics, but also because of his editorial exploits, Zyx is one of the big names among Canadian artists of the 1970s and 1980s.
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