# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-vance
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:03:47.774Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-vance"
name: "William Vance"
slug: "william-vance"
description: "William van Cutsem, better known by his pen name William Vance, was a Belgian comics artist known for his distinctive realistic style and work in Franco-Belgian comics."
tagline: "Belgian comics artist (1935-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Vance_d%C3%A9dicace_Multi_BD_Bruxelles.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1935-09-08"
deathDate: "2018-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.07
  momentum:             1.423690205011389
  historical:           12.30277466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1413946/"
    handle:    "nm1413946"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ويليام فانس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vance"
    title: "William Vance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1397882"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump