Janry

• Born 1957-10-02

Janry is a Belgian comics artist. With Tome he created Le Petit Spirou and made several Spirou et Fantasio albums. Janry began a professional career by becoming the assistant of Francis for the series Ford T, and later assisted Dupa for Cubitus. During this period, he also collaborated with Greg and with Turk and Bob de Groot. Together with Tome, he started working for Spirou magazine, where they created the games page Eureka!, signing as J.R. and PH. In 1981, Tome and Janry started working with the adventures of [Les Aventures de Spirou et Fantasio](app://series/28374). For them, it was a childhood dream, and they showed their first two pilot pages to Franquin to get some advice. They continued making stories until 1998, when after 14 albums they ended their run. In 1988, they began the project [Le Petit Spirou](app://series/28365), a spin-off telling stories from Spirou's youth, predominantly in the 1 page format. Since then, they have published 20 (as of 2024) albums of this series.