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Ray Goossens (14 August 1924 – 10 December 1998) was a Flemish artist, animator, writer, and director best known for creating the cartoon character Musti. ==Biography== Ray Goossens was born in Merksem, Belgium in 1924. Interested in animation from before World War II, he founded the AFIM animation studios with Henri Winkeler and Edmond Roex〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 2015-10-11 )〕 in 1939. They had 15 employees, including later famous comics artists like Bob de Moor and Jef Nys. They created a number of short animated movies, of which ''Smidje Smee'' was the most successful. After the war, Goossens started working as a comics creator with ''Kleine Zondagsvriend'', a weekly youth magazine. He created a number of series, some based on existing stories like ''Tijl Uilenspiegel'' and ''Reinaert de Vos'', some new like ''Tsjoem'' (a parrot) and ''Snops en de bende''. He also worked as an illustrator for different newspapers and magazines, including ''Gazet van Antwerpen''. He worked as an animator mainly for client's publicity purposes, and in 1957 became artistic director of Belvision, the new animation studios of Le Lombard, one of the major Belgian comics publishers. At first, they created series based on existing comics series like ''Oumpah-pah'', ''Hergé's Adventures of Tintin'' or ''Chlorophylle''. They also made the full-length movie ''Pinocchio in Outer Space''. From 1956 to 1969 he worked as an independent animator and director. In 1967 he directed ''Asterix the Gaul'', the first feature film based on this comic, and in 1968 he joined Dupuis, where he created with the animation studios a number of children's series like ''Tip en Tap'', ''De Pili's'' and ''Musti'', which was based on a character he had already created in 1945. He also directed a series based on the adventures of ''Boule et Bill''. From 1976 onwards, Ray Goossens taught animation at the R.I.T.C.S in Brussels. His final success as a director followed in 1980, with ''Plons de gekke kikker''. Ray Goossens died in 1998 in Deurne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ray Goossens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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