My technical first adventure was the disney version of Marsupalami I learned years later that Mars was a Belgian comic character like the smurfs and Tintin. got into the story and history.

I own digital copies of the early et adventures. I got into spirou and fantasio do to two of a kind a cartoon that aired on netflix.

What a terrific overview! Coincidentally, I just opened a package of ten Spirou comics from a viewer, most of them Franquin stories, I believe. Having no idea about the series but having heard it referenced and discussed so often, I've been extremely curious and am now going to sink my teeth into it. I have no doubt that, like with many of your videos, I will be returning here more than once in the future as I read my way through! Cheers!

@earlgrey862

2 жыл бұрын

.... thanks, you're welcome & I'm looking forward to your future video tour through Franquin's comics

Very lucky to have that Spirou anthology translated in german. Despite i read some french, man how i wish this was available in english. Fortunately i do have the complete Franquin work published locally but, alas, not the latest and excellent series drawn by Émile Bravo (among others...). Great round up....

Legendär! Waren so meine ersten Comics aus der Stadtbücherei! Was für Abenteuer! Gaston war aruch sooooo gut!

I love the tome and Janry era of spirou

Very timely video! I've only very recently discovered Spirou and am enjoying it greatly! I only wish there were more releases in English as my French is laughable at best. Thank you!

Thank you for the video! Can’t wait for you to cover Julie Doucet.

I never got into the Spirou & Fantasio series, or its spin-offs Marsupilami and Gaston, although both Spirou and Gaston are very famous in Portugal, especially among older readers. But, hey, without Spirou, we wouldn't have had Pilote, and without Pilote, we wouldn't have had Métal Hurlant.

new video!

Meh, Spirou and Fantasio are way too american for my taste. Like Lucky Luke they adopted an american model of ownership. I much more prefer when the books are produced by one team, or at least written by just one individual. Not that the US market hasn't produced it's fair share of masterpieces, but let's face it, who here in Europe is reading the Asterix comics not by Goscigny and Udrezo? or who is reading the "new" Smurfs albums? Spirou and Luccky like are abnormalities when it comes to the European market.

@OdysseyMichele

2 жыл бұрын

No one forces you to read them all. You can read Goscinny's Lucky Luke and stop. The same goes with Spirou.

@earlgrey862

2 жыл бұрын

it's good to have the identity of one comic with one team, I agree ... but what a pity it would be if Batman would have started and ended with Kane & Finger. And as to Spirou: Should it have been ended 1943 with the last page by Rob-Vel? or with Jijé? then we wouldn't have these amazing stories by Franquin? and so on and so forth.

@AlucardNoir

2 жыл бұрын

​@@earlgrey862 the creators of further Batman and Spirou installments were talented people. They would have made great works either way. Watchman is great not because it's part of the DC universe now but in spite of currently being part of it. Transmetropolitan was published by DC's Vertigo imprint but was a masterpiece completely unrelated to DC. Ellis himself has done several masterpiece deconstructions of the superhero genre. Some, like Planetary reached quite the large issue number. The Killing joke isn't great because it's a Batman story but despite being a Batman story. It and Year One redefined the Cape Crusader because of how great and original they were compared to what had been done before. Let's not pretend all the people involved with Spirou were talentless hacks that only succeeded because of Spirou. If any volume made by anyone other than the original creators is better than the original, then that's on the new team and in spite the original team's vision. Even retelling the same old story can be new and innovative, as shown by Buratino, Batman (who's first story is literal plagiarism of a The Shadow story from a few years prior), Watchman that is a retelling of part of the DC universe, and every single DC series that came after a major crisis that just retold the DC universe again, and again, and again, and again. Hell, one of my all time favorite comics - and I'm willing to be yours as well - Metabaron is a retelling of the core concept of Frank Herbert's Dune. Marvel, DC, Spirou, Lucky Luke, they've lived long enough that now they're their own fanfiction.

@AlucardNoir

2 жыл бұрын

@@earlgrey862 In case you're interested about that Shadow-Batman connection I made: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yn9r2sWAgberZcY.html Assuming YT doesn't erase the comment for linking to their own site.

@earlgrey862

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, good to see that I got you going :) ... would be very interesting if you would start your own channel, I would instantly subscribe to that one (in fact: I just have) ... well, there's no denying that long lasting series are in danger to become their own fan fiction, but that's not inevitable as many creators have proven successfully. So I can hear you in a lot of the points that you made but I'm really not as opinionated and doesn't want to be... and in terms of Spirou: I'm really glad about this long lasting comic series that has evolved through different eras. What these artists could have done otherwise is just speculation and could be only witnessed in a parallel universe.