Tag Archives: Lucky Luke

Droptella

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Wim Lockefeer

Kids love fruity candy. The Dutch love licorice. So if you are confectionary maker Van Melle and have a quite popular fruity chewy product, why not branch out and make a licoricy chewy counterpart? The result, Droptella, didn’t live long … Continue reading →

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Who read comics

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Wim Lockefeer

In case you were wondering, who reads comics? Well, I don’t know about right now, but in the 60s the young and beautiful didn’t mind getting their picture taken with their favourite bande dessinée. Case in point: Brigitte Bardot (manhandling … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year with the Daltons

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Wim Lockefeer

As we are still early in the New Year, and kids are probably already tired of their expensive Christmas presents, why not try a fun and creative activity straight from the seventies? Here’s a papercraft project from Spirou 1102 (1971) … Continue reading →

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Comics quoting from the future

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Wim Lockefeer

It’s most probably my personal idiosyncratic frame of reference, but off late I’ve noticed at least two classic Franco-belgian comics featuring characters that are blatant references to real people, except that those people were still children at best at the … Continue reading →

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Irony always wins, even in Angouleme

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Wim Lockefeer

Sometimes satire just presents itself. To promote the Morris and Lucky Luke exhibition at this year’s Festival of Angoulême, posters had been distributed all through town with the typical signs that would mark the western towns’ limits in the comic. … Continue reading →

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Alzheimer’s also affects heroes

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Wim Lockefeer

It’s been quite a while since I saw a bonafide ad campaign featuring classic comic heroes, but this one really fits the bill. The Association France Alzheimer wanted to alert people to be aware of the early symptoms of the … Continue reading →

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Cowboys like licorice

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Wim Lockefeer

In literally the final issues of the fabled Dutch comic weekly Pep in 1975 (which would morph into the no less fabled Eppo later that same year), western comic hero Lucky Luke and his dastardly enemies the Dalton nephews endorsed a particular … Continue reading →

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Lego heroes

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Wim Lockefeer

Lego never fails to present awesome ads, referencing well-known elements from popular culture.  The iconic nature of the BD characters used here is that great that it’s probably not even necessary to tell who they are (but you can cheat … Continue reading →

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Stripgids 14 – iStrips, iemand ?

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Wim Lockefeer

Eind februari van dit jaar lanceerde internetboekhandel Amazon zijn Kindle 2, een verbeterde versie van zijn ebook, met meer geheugen, een scherper beeld, en toegang tot online winkel voor ebooks.  Om de een of andere reden leeft bij Jeff Bezos … Continue reading →

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Why Marsupilami Rules

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Wim Lockefeer

 I adore comics that refer to other comics, and preferably in a very disrespectful-but-still-loving way.  This page on why the Marsupilami rules the Franco-Belgian comic waves, was published in Spirou 3684, and was created by Tébo (short for Frédéric Thébault), … Continue reading →

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