Danish collected edition discontinued
by Still catching up on some older news… In March, Forlaget Zoom (a Danish publisher) announced that they would no longer publish the collected edition of …
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The Uncollected Spirou Archive
To coincide with the big Spirou anniversary on Sunday, the premier French-language fan site, InediSpirou, relaunched a section of the site that had been down …
Birthday boy
InediSpirou have got a cool little sketch by Yoann added to their site logo for the occasion (bigger version here):
Anniversary / Classic / Sample
The Bravo Bros.
In celebration of the anniversary of Journal de Spirou, as well as Spirou himself, here’s the opening of one of the all-time funniest Spirou adventures, …
Anniversary / Classic / Comic / Sample
Happy 75th, Spirou!
The adventures of Spirou began seventy-five years ago today! (Scanlation courtesy of houbanaut on Scans Daily.)
Anniversary Issue Samples
As promised in the previous post, here are some samples from the anniversary issue of the Journal de Spirou:
Spirou Anniversary Issue
This week (Sunday, to be precise) is Spirou’s 75th “birthday,” and the magazine is celebrating with a double (100-page) anniversary issue almost entirely devoted to …
Spirou nominated for Norwegian comics award
Sprint: På Skyggesiden av Z, the Norwegian edition of La face cachée du Z (Spirou #52, by Yoann and Vehlmann), has been nominated for a 2013 …
Franquin’s Last Laugh delayed
About a year ago, Fantagraphics announced that they would publish Franquin’s Last Laugh, a translation of Franquin’s classic Idées Noires. Much darker (both in tone …
The Year of Spirou
There’s been a lot of things going on in Spirou world lately, so a lot of these first few posts will be catching up. I’ll …