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Julius was a late 20th-century Belgian cartoonist, who, during the 1970s, drew propaganda comics for several far-right publications. He was notable for switching both between a cartoony and more realistic graphic style. All his comics and cartoons expressed white-supremacist, neo-fascist, antisemitic, anti-immigration and anti-Communist viewpoints.
Life and career
Not much is known about Julius' life and career, let alone his identity. It is believed that he was a Walloon, hailing from Brussels. During the 1970s, he made several cartoons and comics for Belgian French-language far-right magazines, like Nouvel Europe. In their pages, he drew gag comics in a cartoony style, alongside more realistically-drawn short stories about historical topics, like the foundation of the Ku Klux Klan. His work also appeared in the party magazine of the short-lived far-right party Forces Nouvelles, for whom he drew the comic serial 'Les Diables Noirs' ("The Black Devils"). This story revolved around "heroic" mercenaries in Third World countries.
His cartoons were also translated into Dutch, running in Haro, the house magazine of the Flemish-nationalist, far-right militia Vlaamse Militante Orde. A collection of his work appeared in the book 'Kraaiepoten' (1978), which also featured work by Stan Sluydts (Korbo, Prik, Gommer) and Jack Marchal. Copies of this comic book were confiscated by the Belgian Investigation Service during a raid at Haro's printing shop.
'Les Diables Noirs'.