Archive for the 'Spirou' Tag

Spirou Salutes the classics

Monday, May 25th, 2009

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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.

Bravo, Emile !

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

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French cartoonist Emile Bravo drew this beautiful image for the BD A Bastia 2009 festival.  Bravo was also the creative genius behind Le Journal d’Un Ingénue, which told an alternative origin story of classic BD hero Spirou.

PlunkBlog: Spirou 70!

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 !

Spirou Reference

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

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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”…)

Real life Franquin

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.

Forbidden Planet Articles

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Spirou Stamps (continued)

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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Spirou Stamps

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

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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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The mystery of the Spirou stamps

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.

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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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Fake Spirou Stamps

Monday, March 26th, 2007

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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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