Steve Jobs once commissioned Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon to come up with an illustrated character that would "live" in every Mac machine and surprise the owner: Mr. Macintosh, aka Mac Man.

Jean-Michel Folon, graphic artist, illustrator, painter, sculptor and actor: born Uccle, Belgium 1 March 1934; twice married (one son, and one daughter deceased); died Monaco 20 October 2005.

Jean-Michel Folon, an architectural school dropout whose surrealistic and witty watercolors often tackled serious, humanistic themes and turned him into one of the world’s best-known commercial ...