21 November, 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 [i]Le groom de Sniper Alley[/i].

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

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