Tag Archive | "Spirou 75th anniversary"

From our continental correspondent – Spirou gets all modern and stuff

Friday, May 17, 2013

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Seminal BD magazine Spirou is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and, as we have already remarked on here before, that event will not pass unnoticed. There are special books, exhibitions, special editions of the magazine itself; there’s even talk of bringing back the Dutch language edition that sadly saw its demise some six years [...]

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2013, The Year of Spirou

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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It is a bit sad that when it comes to bande dessinee –  all the (non Francophone) world at large seems to have discovered so far, is Tintin.  Okay, there’s translations of quite a few other titles, with more coming out, encouragingly, but I can’t shake off the suspicion that their success largely depends on [...]

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