Tag Archive | "Spirou"

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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20 for 2013

Friday, November 30, 2012

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I thought it would be nice to have a quick look at some of the fantastic comics we have coming our way next year. This is a list of books that I’m especially looking forward to, but as you can imagine, there’s a great number of goodness in store. This being comics, obviously a lot of future releases [...]

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From our continental correspondent – The Daltons animated, for real!

Friday, June 8, 2012

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When magazines still really mattered in Bandes Dessinées, and print runs regularly counted in hundreds of thousands, Spirou magazine always had the coolest comics – their titles always were a little more subversive, just a tad more daring and adventurous. But the best aspect of the magazine was the extras – there was always something [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Finally: real Smurf stories (again)

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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A great injustice is about to be set right, thanks to publisher Papercutz. In an announcement on its website, the publisher of graphic novels based on mega-popular children’s fare such as Geronimo Stilton, Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew, presented a new series of graphic novels featuring Belgium’s finest dwarfs : the Smurfs. To us, Belgians, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – when we were very young (even though others were slightly less so)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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Here’s a little something from the past that should be cherished.  In 1978, Pierre Culliford, born in 1928 as the son of an expatriate Brit and better known as Peyo, celebrated his 50th birthday.  To honour that occasion, Yvan Delporte, the legendary editor of Spirou Magazine (and subject of a new, wonderful book by Christelle [...]

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