24 April, 2024
Spirou et les voleurs du Marsupilami (ill. Guilia Jones; (c) Dupuis and the artist; from Journal de Spirou #3979)

Scanlation Sunday: Giulia Jones

Another one of the winners of the Spirou Challenge #4, taking fourth place. I decided not to edit the title, since it’s so integrated into the drawing.

Spirou et les voleurs du Marsupilami (ill. Giulia Jones; (c) Dupuis and the artist; from Journal de Spirou #3979)
Spirou and the Marsupilami Thieves

Jean-François Moyersoen was the owner of Marsu Productions.

The artist had this to say: “This page is a combination of everything I wanted to do! The desire to reinvent Spirou and put him in a great adventure movie. The desire to draw a fake cover. The desire to use the Count’s inventions and to comment on the return of the Marsupilami. In the end, it took six pages! Then I had to cut, to correct, to cut again, take four aspirins, and then finally the background determined the form, and I managed to put almost everything into the whole hodgepodge.”

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I grew up reading Spirou in Scandinavian translations. Now I'm learning French and trying to decode the originals.

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4 thoughts on “Scanlation Sunday: Giulia Jones

  1. Oh, part of the reasoning for posting this comic now was also the Indiana Jones connection, which links it to the ongoing Le groom de Sniper Alley.

    By the way, I had to look and think twice before I figured out what the aerosol can was…

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