Jacques Van Melkebeke

[1] A friend of Hergé, Van Melkebeke took part in a semi-official way in the development of some of the storylines of The Adventures of Tintin, adding a number of cultural references.

During this period, when he first crossed paths with Hergé,[2] Van Melkebeke's strip Les Nouvelles Aventures du Baron de Crac ran in Le Soir as well.

[4][5] Although he had primarily written cultural articles, after the war Van Melkebeke's position at Le Soir Jeunesse resulted in a 1945 judgment of collaboration and of incitement of racial hatred.

[1] From that point, Van Melkebeke worked under the pseudonym George Jacquet[1] or as a ghostwriter, on such projects as Tintin, Laudy's strip Hassan et Kaddour, and Paul Cuvelier's Corentin.

[5] As a prank, Van Melkebeke once wrote a fake letter to Tintin magazine demanding that an insult Captain Haddock used – "Pneumothorax" – be removed.