Franquin with the creation of Gaston Lagaffe and the co-authorship of Idées noires. Delporte started at Spirou at the age of 17. Where his first job was...

Audrey (July 5, 2023). "«Une histoire de sang et de sacrifice»: une bande dessinée sur le maquis du Vercors et les Compagnons de la Libération". Le Dauphiné...

stories tended to be politically neutral (in his later works, notably Idées noires, he would champion pacifist and environmental views), Fournier's stint...

Peyo, Roba, Gotlib, and Franquin, who started his third major series, Idées Noires. The early 1980s had Spirou and Robbedoes searching for a new, appealing...

dell’Investigatore Merlo (Detective Merlo's long night), by Leo Ortolani (Edizioni Bande Dessinée) is first published, a parody of Humphrey Bogart’s movies. April 1:...

basis of Franquin's politics and would be expressed much more bluntly in Idées noires were already surfacing in Gaston (and Spirou et Fantasio). Very occasionally...

which he would let loose much more ferociously in Gaston Lagaffe and Idées noires. Franquin publications in Spirou BDoubliées (in French) Spirou official...

pp. 359-377. (In French) [Lanuque 2018] Jean-Guillaume Lanuque, "La bande-dessinée, avenir du merveilleux-scientifique?", in Jean-Guillaume Lanuque (dir...

(Broussaille, Zoo) André Franquin - (Gaston, Modeste et Pompon, Marsupilami, Idées Noires, continued Spirou et Fantasio) Franz (Franz Drapper) - (Jugurtha) Patryck...