Happy New Year!
by Cover for the Journal de Spirou New Year’s issue (#3950), currently out. It features a calendar with Gaston drawn by various artists (including Tarrin, Tome …
Month: December 2013
Scanlation Sunday: Exquisite Corpse 11
This update is late enough that I won’t bother backdating it to Sunday. Well, it’s the holidays! Also for that reason, it’s only a single …
Fanart Friday: Anniversary blowout
It occurred to me that this is really the last good opportunity to feature some of this year’s anniversary fanart, so here’s a small gallery …
It’s Official: Christmas with Fridolin & Ferdinand
Merry Christmas! Though they’re rather small, that’s definitely Spirou and Fantasio (and Spip) on this 1959 cover. Or is it?
Scanlation Sunday: Christmas in Champignac
As our Spirou Reporter holiday scanlation, here is a short Christmas story written and illustrated by Yoann (without Vehlmann, despite what it says in the …
Fanart Friday: Janne Raets
This showed up on tumblr last week. A nice approximation of Yoann’s style by a Belgian illustration student. “Robbedoes en Kwabbernoot” are the Dutch names …
It’s Official: Spirou in Arabic
While this cover is based on Franquin’s 1960s–70s masthead illustration for the Journal de Spirou (which can be seen in the corner), the collage gives …
Illustration / News / Sample
Marolles Fetish begins
As mentioned in seemingly every post for the last several weeks, Le fétiche des Marolles by Schwartz & Yann begins serialization in this week’s issue …
Publications update (week 49-50)
The year is winding down, and this might be the last publications update until 2014. Dupuis addresses the problems with the Gaston box set, Finland …
Scanlation Sunday: Snowfall
In between Le groom vert-de-gris (“The field-gray bellhop”) and their new adventure, Le fétiche des Marolles (“The Marolles Fetish”), Schwartz and Yann made a one-pager …