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Spirou
Spirou celebrates 100th anniversary of publisher Editions Dupuis with bumper special issue
A new 100-page double-issue of Spirou celebrate the 100th anniversary of founding of its publisher, Editions Dupuis
Reinventing Comic Characters: The European Approach
Comic characters are being adapted for a modern audience across the Channel. Peter Duncan takes a look…
The wartime story of Spirou, by Émile Bravo, set to draw to a powerful close
Émile Bravo’s powerful war story opens with harrowing imagery
In Review: Spirou – Hope, Against All Odds Part Two
Peter Duncan takes a look at Émile Bravo’s latest episode of Spriou’s wartime story, available in English as a digital edition…
Comics in Crisis? Why not take Inspiration from Europe?
Do European comics offer stronger long term solutions for the future of the comics medium? Peter Duncan investigates with reviews of three titles from Europe Comics…
A Comics Curiosity: The 1990s British “Smurfs Comic”
With a major exhibition dedicated to Peyo’s The Smurfs part of this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival, running into November in Kendal, what better time to step back to the 1990s, when Maida Vale-based DeVere Entertainment published a British Smurfs comic?
Original Tintin art by Hergé may sell for over £500,000 in Heritage’s First European Comic Art Auction
An extraordinary, 12-panel page of original Tintin art by Belgian cartoonist Hergé may sell for as much as $720,000 (over £533,400) in Heritage Auctions’ first European Comic Art Auction next month. The sale offers nearly 300 lots, including vintage artworks by… Read More ›
2017 Brussels Comic Strip Festival celebrates 60 years of Gaston LaGaffe (that’s “Gomer Goof” to his English fans)
This year’s Comic Strip Festival in Brussels will celebrate the 60th anniversary of famous Belgian comic character Gaston Lagaffe, organisers have announced. The gag-a-day comic strip was created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the Franco-Belgian comics… Read More ›
In Review: The Bellybuttons – It’s Ugly Out There
There are times when a book can take you completely by surprise and turn out to be completely different to what you were expecting. The Bellybuttons book It’s Ugly Out There with its teen girl talk, high school setting, caricatured… Read More ›
In Review: Spirou And Fantasio – Adventure Down Under
The weekly comic magazine that is now known as Spirou began as Le Journal Du Spirou in April 1938 in the French speaking Belgian region of Wallonia and the character of Spirou has been in it since that first issue…. Read More ›