'Handjar le Justicier'.
Jacques Souriau was born in 1886 in Vendôme as the son of a philosopher. He studied law at the faculty in Nancy and at the same time he took courses in Fine Arts. At age twenty, Souriau started illustrating for the publishing house Masson.
'Tempête sur le Bengale' (text by Frank Murray, L'Intrepide 19 January 1949).
In the interbellum, Souriau worked mainly as an illustrator of books for publishers like Hachette, Delagrave, Hattier and several magazines. In 1938, he got married to a Romanian journalist, who also contributed to his oeuvre as his scriptwriter. At this point, Souriau made his first comics (for Opera Mundi and Montsouris), published in magazines like Pierrot and Lisette.
'Jean et Jeanette'.
After being an officer in World War II, Fantoni returned to the comics profession. For Vaillant magazine, he illustrated the series 'Jean et Jeanette' in the 1950s, later continued by René Deynis.
'Handjar le Justicier'.
From 1952 to 1953, Souriau illustrated the 'Handjar le Justicier' series in L'Intrépidé. By 1954, he was briefly present at Artima publishers with some 'Tom Tempest' stories published in Red Canyon. Jacques Souriau died in 1957.
'Tom Tempest' (Red Canyon #9, November 1954).