Light from Borneo wins Brussels Comic Prize
by 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 …
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Publications Update: May 2017
Borneo comes to Norway, a new one-shot by David Etien, the Zorglub-universe expands further, Spain gets a whole bunch of Spirou publications, and more!
Fanart Friday: Roger Langridge
Roger Langridge is a comic book creator known for comics such as Fred the Clown and The Muppet Show. These pieces were done as commissions …
Publications Update: Q4 2016 – Q1 2017
Sooo… It has been almost half a year since the last proper Publications Update, and increasingly dated “news” has been piling up like the urgent …
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Gaston 60
Yesterday it was 60 years since Gaston Lagaffe walked into the door of the offices of the Journal de Spirou (or to put it another …
Scanlation Sunday: Back to work, Franquin!
The week before the magazine serialization of a new Spirou & Fantasio adventure in the Journal de Spirou, Franquin used to draw a little teaser. …
Gaston also goes to the movies
Following on the heels of the Petit Spirou film and the Spirou & Fantasio film, it’s recently been reported that a film version of Franquin’s …
Spirou & Gaston: For science!
From an upcoming special issue of the Journal, dedicated to the French Science Festival (7.-11. October): Cover from Izneo.
Fanart Friday: Google’s Gaston
Today is the 57th anniversary of Gaston’s first appearance (which I guess is meaningful because that was in 1957), and a certain web company has …
Publications update (January 2014)
All right! Since the last one of these, quite a few things have happened, so let’s just run through them quickly…