It’s Official: Spip, Couette & Calot
by We’ve had some weird stuff before in the “It’s Official” series, but it doesn’t get much weirder than this. Spip, Couette & Calot is a …
Tag: official fanart
Spirou spring catch-up
Spirou Reporter was more or less out of commission for the last month, and unfortunately missed everything from April’s Fools Day to the one-year anniversary …
It’s Official: To Steal a Marsupilami
Of all the Spirou covers created for Interpresse, this is in my personal view clearly the best. In fact, I tend to prefer it to …
It’s Official: Turbot Quattraction
One of the most iconic aspects of The Adventures of Spirou & Fantasio is their car, the Turbotraction (or just Turbot). Like the Batmobile, it …
It’s Official: Ferdiohan and Fridowit
Probably no other publication has produced as many bizarre Spirou covers as Der heitere Fridolin, which first published Spirou & Fantasio in German from 1958 …
Illustration / News / Reblog
It’s Official: Journal de Spirou Art Jam
This last weekend, there was apparently a closing ceremony for the 2013 75th anniversary “Year of Spirou”, held in Charleroi, Belgium. Part of the event …
It’s Official: Horn of the Rhinoceros
This one is an oddity: a cover that was redrawn twice, for no immediately discernible reason.
It’s Official: Kokomiko behind bars
As mentioned last week, Spirou and Fantasio appeared in German first as “Fridolin und Ferdinand”, and then as “Pit und Pikkolo” in various magazines from …
It’s Official: Christmas with Fridolin & Ferdinand
Merry Christmas! Though they’re rather small, that’s definitely Spirou and Fantasio (and Spip) on this 1959 cover. Or is it?
It’s Official: Spirou in Arabic
While this cover is based on Franquin’s 1960s–70s masthead illustration for the Journal de Spirou (which can be seen in the corner), the collage gives …