Lombard editions announced the death of comics artist Maurice Marchal on 21 March 2008. Born in Waremme, Belgium, in 1922, he was also a professor of literature at the University of Liège. He brought his first series for Tintin to Lombard in March 1957.
Lombard has an obituary in French here. Marchal died the same day as Lombard co-founder Raymond Leblanc (see our previous article).