He started work at the beginning of the fifties and, amongst many other reports, skilfully rewrote the numerous articles the globetrotter Alain de Prelle sent from the four corners of the planet. De Prelle had bet the publisher Charles Dupuis that he could travel around the world with only a thousand franc (Belgian) note to see him on his way. His various stopovers were a rich source of journalistic material and, as the form of these reports was not always suitable for a popular magazine, Desprechins” talent was employed to transform them into a series of clear enthralling articles. These articles were then included in four large best-selling volumes at Dupuis.

Encouraged by this initial success, in 1953, he suggested a script for “Tif et Tondu” to Will (“Oscar et ses mystères”, signed Ben) at a time when Dineur was becoming completely disinterested by his earlier characters and had stopped writing.

His journalistic preoccupations then kept him busy and he only returned to cartoon writing in 1967 when, to assist the young Pierre Seron, he offered his services to write the texts for the “Petits Hommes”. He wrote about half a dozen until 1970 – from “Alerte à Eslapion” to “L’Exode” – often putting his ideas into words.

At the same time, after the departure of Yvan Delporte and Charles Jadoul, the mainstays of the Spirou editing team, he also edited the readers” letters response column for two years and adapted Georges Mazure’s “Coup au coeur” cartoon into French.

He ended his career at Telemoustique, where for many years he was the editor in chief. He then became a television critic until his age induced him to take life easier. And, for a period, he was also the President of the Union of Belgian TV Critics.

Unfortunately, his premature death did not permit him to fully enjoy a well-deserved retirement.