Chantal De Spiegeleer

Chantal De Spiegeleer (15 April 1957 – 15 February 2025) was a Belgian comic book author and artist.

Life and career Born in Léopoldville on 15 April 1957, De Spiegeleer attended the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. There, she joined Atelier R, founded by , where she published her first pages. She then published a short story titled Façades blanches in À Suivre magazine in 1978.

In the 1970s, De Spiegeleer started a career in fashion, modeling for Cacharel, Daniel Hechter, Armani, and Chanel.

In 1987, De Spiegeleer made her debut with Tintin magazine, designing panels for . She then designed a protagonist modeled after Louise Brooks in the series Madila. The volumes were published in , as well as Le Lombard in 2008 and 2009.

De Spiegeleer and her husband settled on Union Island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 1992. She also finished the book The Curse of the Thirty Denarii in 2009, which had been started by her husband prior to his death in 2006.

Chantal De Spiegeleer died in Cananéia on 15 February 2025, at the age of 67.

Publications As author Mirabelle (1982) Madila Madila Bay (1988) Rouge Rubis (1989) Octavie (1992) Zelda et moi (1995) Intégrale Madila (2008) The Curse of the Thirty Denarii (2009)

As artist L'Avion du Nanga (1987) Le Repaire du Katana (1988) Muerte transit (1989) Dernière Mission (1992) Black Bounty (1995) L'Île perdue (1996) La Jungle rouge (1997) Les Maudits (1998) La Force (2000) Le Goulag (2003) Adler: Intégrale 1 (2008) Adler: Intégrale 2 (2008)

Collective works Los derechos del niño (with and René Sterne, 1991) Los derechos de la mujer (with Annie Goetzinger and , 1992)

Art books 80 chats pour Tania, 10 ans pour Pepperland (1980) Fax to fax (1996)

Public collections Belgian Comic Strip Center, Brussels