She will have marked the world of illustration. Belgian illustrator Nadine Forster, best known for her book adaptations of television heroes of the 1970s and 1980s, died Wednesday at the age of 92. “The funeral will take place on Monday,” Christian Legendre, the mayor of Aschères-le-Marché (Loiret), where the designer lived, told AFP, confirming information from La Central Republic.
Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Nadine Forster settled in Aschères-le-Marché, about twenty kilometers from Orléans, in the early 1980s. In the 1960s, she notably illustrated the series of albums for children Veronique’s diarythen later cartoons like Arnie the Explorer.
Illustrations of cult characters
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Belgian produced many album covers from the Walt Disney universe, as well as those of the heroes of children’s television shows, such as Casimir and Children’s Island.
She also designed albums and books for Ulysses 31, Maya the Bee, Tom and Jerry, Astro Boy, Lady Oscar, Casper the Friendly Ghost, as well as many covers of the Pink Library volumes. More recently, she had put in pictures Emilie Jolie’s Novelan adaptation of the famous musical tale by Philippe Chatel.