Anniversary / News / Reblog / Sample
Spirou is 80!
by On this day 80 years ago, 21. April 1938 (a Thursday), the first issue of the Journal de Spirou came out, featuring the first appearance …
Category: News
Happy Birthday Munuera!
Today is the 46th birthday of José Luis Munuera. Happy birthday! Munuera is currently working on the second album in the Zorglub spin-off series, set …
Yoann & Vehlmann to leave Spirou! … or not
And we’re back! There has been a ton of news to report since the last update, but let’s start with the most recent. Earlier this …
Zantafio’s Plan
According to Stripspeciaalzaak, this December will see another album in the Dutch-language Robbedoes Special series by Charel Cambré and Marc Legendre: Het Plan van Wiebeling …
Spirou’s crazy adventures
The collection of short Spirou stories by Yoann & Vehlmann will be coming out as Spirou & Fantasio Hors-Série #5: Les Folles aventures de Spirou …
Light from Borneo wins Brussels Comic Prize
This weekend was the 8th annual Brussels Comic Strip Festival, which was also the 4th Festival Spirou (with Gaston as the featured character this time …
Illustration / News / Sample
Kolk’s Tulips from Istanbul
The upcoming Spirou one-shot by Hanco Kolk, previously known as Het IJzeren Gordijn (“The Iron Curtain”), has a new title: Tulpen uit Istanboel (“Tulips from …
Silent Sunday: Soumaya
On 15. August, Marc Hardy celebrated his sixty-fifth birthday by posting 65 samples of his work to Facebook. According to Stripspeciaalzaak, that included this page, …
His Name Was Ptirou
The upcoming graphic novel about the cabin boy who inspired Rob-Vel to create Spirou (which is still, unaccountably, being published as a Spirou one-shot) will …
Scanlation Sample: The Case of the Missing Penguin
A few weeks ago, the Journal de Spirou did a special concept issue (#4127) devoted almost entirely to Pascal Jousselin’s Spirou et l’affaire du pingouin, …