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Spirou magazine is a weekly Belgian comics magazine ( Spirou is a Walloon word meaning " squirrel " or " lively kid ") published by the Dupuis company.
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* 1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.
In the early 80's, Aragonés collaborated with the Belgian cartoonist François Walthéry on Natacha, l ' hotesse de l ' air, a well known series from the magazine Spirou.
It was created in 1979 for the German magazine Zack and also appeared in Métal Hurlant, Spirou and Politikin Zabavnik.
Among the people who studied there were Bob de Moor, Jacques Martin, Roger Leloup, and Edgar P. Jacobs, all of whom exhibit the easily recognizable Belgian clean line style, often opposed to the " Marcinelle school "- style, mostly proposed by authors from the Spirou magazine, such as Franquin, Peyo and Morris.
But things got clearer around 1950, with Spirou and the new magazine Tintin ( founded in 1946 with a team focused around Hergé ) as the most influential and successful magazines for the next decade.
* Spirou ( magazine ), originally Le Journal de Spirou, Belgian weekly serial comics magazine
Belgium is home to some of the most important European comics magazines and publishers, with Dupuis ( Spirou magazine ), Le Lombard ( Tintin magazine ) and Casterman.
Gaston is a comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the comic strip magazine, Spirou.
In the context of the fictive story evolving at the magazine offices, the man behind the footprints, Gaston, finally turned up for a memorable job interview, telling the bemused Spirou that he didn't remember with whom or for what he had been called.
Authors at Spirou could only go so far in expressing anything resembling politics within the magazine, and so the author of Gaston generally stuck to a gentle satire of productivity and authority.
Jijé was then producing many of the comics that were published in the comics magazine Le Journal de Spirou, including its flagship series Spirou et Fantasio.
Initially a joke designed to fill up blank space in the magazine, the weekly strip, detailing the mishaps and madcap ideas and inventions of a terminally idle office boy working at the Spirou offices, took off and became one of Franquin's best-known creations.
Blueberry has its roots in Giraud's earlier Western-themed works such as Frank et Jeremie, which was drawn for Far West magazine when he was only 18, and his collaboration on Jijé's Jerry Spring in 1961, which appeared in the Belgian comics magazine Spirou.
First he asked Jijé to draw the series, but Jijé thought there would be a conflict of interest, since he was a regular artist at Spirou, a competing comic magazine.
In 1952, Franquin introduced Peyo to Le Journal de Spirou, a children's comics magazine published by Dupuis which first appeared in Belgium in 1938.
After assisting Turk and De Groot on series such as Léonard and Clifton, they began working at the comics magazine Spirou in 1979, their first assignment the games page Jeureka.
Marsupilami is a fictional comic book species created by André Franquin, first published on 31 January 1952 in the magazine Spirou.
It first appeared in the comics magazine Spirou on 29 April 1986.
The comic series is written by Raoul Cauvin, and drawn by Daniel Kox, and has been published in the Spirou / Robbedoes magazine since 1975.
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Pilote is almost exclusively comic-dynamic, and so is Spirou and l ' Écho des savanes.
The latter campaign is interesting in that it shows Franquin's evolution from car enthusiast inventing the Turbo-traction and other fancy sports vehicles for Spirou in the 1950s, to disillusioned citizen concerned over traffic and pollution in later years.
Even one of his characters, “ El Botones Sacarino ”, can be easily identified as a hybrid of Spirou ( he is a bellboy ) and Gaston Lagaffe ( he works in a publishing company and is the source of never ending disasters ), whom he resembles physically.
Zorglub is a fictional character in the Belgian comic strip Spirou et Fantasio, created by Greg and André Franquin, and first appeared in the serialised story Z comme Zorglub in Spirou in 1959, later published in the diptych albums " Z comme Zorglub " ( 1961 ) and " L ' ombre du Z " ( 1962 ).
After the ordeal he reverts to the mental state of a child but with the help of the Count, Spirou and Fantasio he is cured and rehabilitated.
Palombia is a fictitious South American country described in the Belgian Spirou et Fantasio and Marsupilami comic book stories as the birthplace and native habitat of Marsupilami.
He is known for collaborations with Janry on Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou, and with Luc Warnant and later Bruno Gazzotti on Soda.
One album of Spirou and Fantasio featuring Marsupilami, number 15, was translated to English by Fantasy Flight Publishing in 1995, although it is currently out of print.
The Spirou et Fantasio album Le nid des Marsupilamis is mostly concerned with a documentary-within-the-comic about the life of a family of marsupilamis still living in the wild in Palombia.
Yoko Tsuno is a comic book series created by the Belgian writer Roger Leloup published by Dupuis and in Spirou since its debut in 1970.
Zantafio is a recurring fictional antagonist in the Spirou et Fantasio comic book series.
This is # 4 in the series Les meilleurs récits du Journal Spirou.
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First published 21 April 1938 as Le Journal de Spirou, it was an eight-page weekly comics magazine composed a mixture of short stories and gags, serial comics, and a handful of American comics.
Yves Chaland, was approached to draw an adventure of Spirou et Fantasio, appearinging in half-page installments of the weekly Spirou.
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* Spirou Charleroi, Belgian professional basketball club
André Franquin ( 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997 ) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series ' golden age.
Since then it appeared regularly in the popular Belgian comic book series Spirou et Fantasio until Franquin stopped working on the series in 1968 and the character dropped out soon afterward.
Belgian comics artist Nicolas Broca created the original character designs, which were originally created for characters called " Diskies " he wished to include in the Spirou et Fantasio Franco-Belgian comic he was drawing at the time.
The period 1945 – 1960 has been described by critics as the golden age of Spirou magazine and of Belgian comics in general, partly incited by the 1946 appearance of the successful competitor magazine Tintin.
Joseph Gillain, better known as Jijé ( 13 January 1914 – 20 June 1980 ), was a Belgian comics artist, best known for being a seminal artist on the Spirou et Fantasio strip ( and for having introduced the Fantasio character ) and the creator of one of the first major European western strips, Jerry Spring.
Many Belgian comics have had similar themes of confirmed bachelors living together, including Tintin and Captain Haddock, Asterix & Obelix, Spirou & Fantasio and Tif & Tondu.
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Some other comics have also been translated into Breton, including Tintin, Spirou, Titeuf, Hägar the Horrible, Peanuts and Yakari.
The " ninth art " designation stems from Morris's article series about the history of comics, which appeared in Spirou from 1964 to 1967.
At first, authors like Jijé in Spirou and Edgar P. Jacobs in Bravo continued unfinished American stories of Superman and Flash Gordon, and simultaneously by imitating the style and flow of those comics vastly improved their knowledge of how to make efficient comics.
* Spirou ( character ), the eponymous main character of the comics series Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou
* Spirou et Fantasio, comics series published in the serial journal and in hardcover book format
The first stories were written by Franquin ( of Gaston Lagaffe fame ), Delporte ( editor of Spirou and writer of many comics ) and Macherot ( creator of Sybilline ).
Yoko Tsuno first appeared in the comics magazine Spirou on September 24, 1970 with the 8 page short Hold – up en hi – fi.
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