Eugène Damblanc, known as Damblans was a French watercolourist, aquafortist, illustrator and engraver was born on 14 July 1865 in Montevideo, Buenos Aires he had French parents.
He first worked as an illustrator for Argentine newspapers, then moved to France at the age of twenty-five.
He then worked for the Maison de la bonne presse, notably for Le Pèlerin. He also worked for various newspapers and magazines, including Noël illustré (a weekly magazine for children) as well as La Terre illustrée, the Journal des voyages, La Jeunesse amusante, Le Petit Journal, L'Écho du Noël, and L'Illustré national and Le Soleil du dimanche. He often drew large exotic scenes or current events in distant countries. He also created charming children's scenes, and is known to have painted a portrait of the painter and engraver Aimé Dallemagne. He was the main author of the front pages of the illustrated supplements of the Petit Journal from 1904 to 1918.
A pupil of Jean-Émile Buland, a perpetual member of the Salon des artistes français, he obtained an honourable mention in 1912, a silver medal in 1913 and in 1923, and presented two etchings there. In 1924, he exhibited the etching Bretonne and the watercolour Vieille Béarnaise at the Galerie Simonson in Paris.
He extended his collaboration with the Maison de la bonne presse by producing illustrated stories, the forerunners of comic strips, such as Le Roi de Paris and Le Trésor de la Dévadassi. He illustrated pre-war novels published by Bayard Presse, such as those by Pierre L'Ermite.
He died on 21 January 1945 in Bois-Colombes a few months after the Liberation of Paris.