Archive for the 'Spirou' Tag
Monday, May 25th, 2009
Much as the regular Spirou Et Fantasio series is getting rather tiresome, the spin-off series, Une Avonture de Spirou et Fantasio is nothing less than fantastic. The most recent addition to this collection, Schwartz and Yann’s Le Groom Vert-de-Gris, is no exception. And it’s especially great since it’s full of little references to classic Belgian comics.
Over on the Forbidden Planet Blog Log, I’ve tried to list some of the best ones, such as the appearance of Quick et Flupke on the panel above.
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Belgian comics magazine Spirou celebrates its seventieth birthday, and Plunk creator Luc Cromheecke celebrates this with a cartoon which is totally him !
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Belgian tennis godess Justine Henin has invested in the Belgian basketball team Spirous (Charleroi). Hence this cartoon by Vincent Rif from L’Echo de la Bourse.
By the way, hello to all readers from the Justine Henin forum ! Welcome to another Belgian corner on the web…
(translation : “Your racket was full of holes, so I invested a little”…)
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Late last year I visited the “World of Franquin” exhibition in Brussels with my kids.
It was a great show, with lots of real life objects that were lifted from several Spirou and Gaston stories that Franquin did. I was amazed at seeing the Turbotraction cars “in the metal”, as it were. Enjoy the pictures.
Posted in Comics, Life | 1 Comment » | Tags : André Franquin, Dupuis, Exhibition, Fantasio, Gaston Lagaffe, Spirou
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Please follow these links to the articles I’ve published so far this year on the Forbidden Planet Blog Log:
- Tibet, creator of Ric Hochet, passes away
- Blexbolex for Bastia
- Thesis on alternative comics available online
- Adele teaser online
- Get well-read in under an hour!
- Jacques Martin, a personal reflection
- What I Will Miss In Angoulême This Year
- Monsieur Hulot a Bruxelles
- Next in comics: the commentary track
- crisis hits comics festivals
- crisis hits comics: BD sales part I
- comics in crisis: BD sales part II
- 24 heures de la BD, a quick selection
- Netherlands to be the guest country at Ficomic Barcelona
- Now We Are Five (Celebration of five years Forbidden Planet Blog Log, together with Richard Bruton, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Matthew Badham and, of course, Joe Gordon)
- The Clear Line conquers Europe
- Moomin at the Belgian Comic Strip Centre
- Wasco Cuts In Amsterdam
- The Smurfs at the World Fair
Click here for the articles from 2007, 2008 and 2009.
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
This is the last post I’ll write about the fake stamps that were included with the comics weekly Spirou in 2001. In order to make enough fuzz about this campaign, the first issue also contained a few stamp-themed features and strips, such as the cartoon above about “Les Tuniques Bleues” creator Willy Lambil who is famed for the large size paper he uses for his battle spreads.
(The editor is saying : “Are you sure, my good friend, that I didn’t give you any indication as to the format ?”)
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
I mentioned the fake stamps that were added to four issues of the Francobelgian weekly “Spirou” in february-march, 2001 once or twice before. As I managed to buy these issues from a guy in Brussels who was selling his complete collection on Ebay, I’ll just go on about them for a while.
It must have been quite a big deal, as for three of the issues special a stamp-themed cover (see above).
I scanned the for sheets on 200 dpi, so as to make the scans And so, I present you large scans of all four sheets.
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Earlier I blogged about some very beautiful fake stamps I found on Ebay that supposedly had been issued as a supplement with the Belgian comics magazine Spirou in 1961.
Tout Spirou, a wonderful website covering everything about that magazine, gives the lowdown on the stamps, and also shows some more recent examples, from 1972 and 2002 (see below) respectively. Well worth the read…
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
In 1961, the Belgian comic weekly Spirou produced a few very nice stamps as a freebie for their readers. The stamps featured popular heroes, such as Benoit Brisefer, Tif et Tondu, Jerry Spring, and others. Enjoy (and yes, I nicked these images from Ebay)…
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