Bernard Hislaire Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1957 -

Bernard Hislaire is a Belgian artist, who is known for his poetic and litterary comics oeuvre, which he has mostly published under the name Yslaire.

He was born in Brussels, where he grew up in an intellectual environment. His father Jacques Hislaire was a journalist with La Libre Belgique, while his mother Anne-Marie Guislain was a senior official at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hislaire made his first steps in the comics industry through fanzines like Robidule. He studied at the Saint-Luc Art Institute in Brussels and got the opportunity to draw a comic story for the 'Carte Blanche' section of Spirou magazine in 1975. In the following years, he contributed artwork to several of the magazines editorial sections, under the guidance of Jean-Marie Brouyère. By 1978 he made his first continuing comic story from a script by Brouyère, 'Coursensac et Baladin au Pays des Tahétéhus'.