by I’ve been working on a longer scanlation, but I wasn’t able to get it done this weekend. So instead, here’s a little something from the upcoming issue of the Journal de Spirou…
This mini-comic (from the table of contents page) is on the occasion of the Marsupilami’s return to the magazine. Disappointingly, the story is not a new one, but just the old La queue du Marsupilami (Marsupilami #1, “The Tail of the Marsupilami”) by Franquin, Batem and Greg.
It’s understandable that the magazine takes advantage of the rights they’ve acquired, but I must say I find it unnecessary to serialize an album from 1987 that has already sold half a million copies.
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The drawings look like they are made by Yoann?!
Did the signature give it away? 🙂
Sorry if the explanation was a bit confusing; I guess it’s not so clear when you see the comic out of context. OK, so each week the magazine runs a cartoon, gag or mini-comic on the title page, above the table of content (see example [url=http://www.spirou.com/journal/index.php]here[/url]). This feature is called [i]La semaine de Spirou[/i], which I’ve translated as “This week in Spirou,” and it’s usually on the theme of something in the issue.
This week we get a little comic by Yoann & Vehlmann on the topic of Marsupilami, and the reason for that is that this issue features the first part of the first “proper” Marsupilami story to run in the magazine in thirty years. But that story is the old “Tail of the Marsupilami,” not a new adventure.
Does that clear things up?
Wrong. “Rififi en Palombie” and “Houba Banana” were pre-published in Spirou Mag in 1995 & 1997. Not quite thirty years… http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/series4/marsupilami.htm
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Spip might just be my favorite Spirou character. I love how he’s shushing Spirou in the third panel.
Seems this scanlation of yours has been declared official! At least, it recently made it to an Art Bubble article about Yoann’s career as a Spirou artist. 😉 http://art-bubble.dk/2018/07/yoann-chivard-den-nye-mestertegner-af-splint-og-co/ No mention of the source either…
Since it’s of dubious legality, anyway, it’s probably no point in taking any actions…
No, I don’t think so either. But I do think it would have been appropriate for Art Bubble to give credit where credit is due and mention this site as the source. (And at the same time make clear that this is a scanlation, not an official English release.)