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Good grief!
Posted by comme-tu-le-vois
Hello again. Turns out I'm not quite ready to close this tumblr.
This is a slimmed down version of what was before but there are still some scanlations of Gaston Lagaffe, Spirou (The Miniatures, scanlated with @mutalieju), Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche, Steven Strong (Benoît Brisefer) and some oddities from the pages of le Journal de Spirou. I also have some albums for sale on ebay (see photo) so pm for details.
I probably won't be updating this blog much but may pass by from time to time. See you soon.
Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche – Un Oiseau pour le Chat (#7) Alain Dodier 1991 © Editions Dupuis
Vanescu loves his daughter – to the point that he’d bleed himself dry to send her to the best private school he can. But when he loses his job, he can’t bring himself to tell Miléna that there’s nothing left. So he robs a bank – and gets caught.
The school’s headmistress, the kind soul that she is, throws Miléna out into the street. And just like that, the girl’s gone – vanished into the countryside. What a bummer. Well, particularly for Jérôme, that is, who promised Vanescu he’d watch out for her...
The Spirit of Adventure (L’esprit d’aventure) by Nob
From the Journal de Spirou #3914, the 75th anniversary special (2013).
“I tried not to get lost in parody. I’ve always loved the feel of Champignac. The idea was that a weekend with the Count would be like a weekend with your own grandparents! And I would love to read the next part of this story – which stops just when the adventure really begins!” Nob
Thanks to @overlordraax for proofing and general encouragement!
The Long-Awaited Crossover series, part two: Mike Pearse
If you wait long enough, all the things you like will overlap and become part of one huge, delicious universe. Such is basically the Commetulevois Theory of Everything. So, one glorious day (if only in my dreams), the kids from Bash Street and Digimon Adventure 02 will unite under the wise counsel of Danger Mouse and go to meet Spirou & Fantasio on the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui East to protect the world from something or another (while listening to The Smiths). But maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.
The first part of the Long-Awaited Crossover series isn't labelled as such, but it's this post about the Hanna-Barbera production of Peyo's Johan & Pirlouit. This second part looks at some clins d'oeil sneaked into long-running British comic The Beano by artist/writer Mike Pearse.
Pearse drew the Bash Street Kids (BSK) and Bash Street Kids – Singled Out strips in the early 2000s, giving the series something of a breath of fresh air (he also drew The Three Bears). I was a Beano reader in the 1980s and 1990s so Pearse's work is quite new to me: I've been thrilled to spot more than a couple of references to Franco-Belgian comics! Shall we have a look?
Pearse's first strip in the Beano was It's A Funny Old Game(1) in 1999, a story featuring characters from multiple Beano strips. The last page's first panel is this delightful homage to Goscinny & Uderzo's Asterix.
Asterix himself appears at a head teachers' conference in The Great Bash Street Nativity Play(2), a feature-length Christmas story from 1999 (compared to a panel from Goscinny & Uderzo’s Asterix & the Roman Agent).
Our good friend the Count de Champignac (from the Spirou & Fantasio series) appears as a museum Curator in another feature-length story, Finders Keepers(3). (Next to it is a panel from Franquin’s Le Voyageur du Mésozoïque.)
Monsieur Mégot, the sadistic PE teacher from Le Petit Spirou, makes an appearance in the Bash Street staff room in A Nightmare On Bash Street(4).
Pearse's superb lettering and onomatopoeias (seen here in Dennis' Big Birthday Party(5)) are also reminiscent of bande dessinée... (And, on second look, Plug stuck in a deckchair in the second panel is not unlike Fantasio trapped in the settee in Franquin’s La Foire Aux Gangsters.)
... Right down to the hand gestures. Ooh là lààà!
The Signore Studios blog hosts scans of Mike Pearse's Beano work, if you want to take a look. If you like his work, I'd encourage you to track down the 2009 and 2010 BSK books and follow his work on Facebook (he currently works in the Netherlands, lucky chap).
References: 1) It's A Funny Old Game appears originally in The Beano #2978 (1999/08/14) and is reprinted in the BSK 2009 annual, The Bash Street Kids in Space Cadets (D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd., 2008. ISBN-13: 978-1845353520) 2) The Great Bash Street Nativity Play appears originally in The Beano #2997 (1999/12/25). 3) Finders Keepers appears originally in The Beano #3025 (2000/07/08). 4) A Nightmare On Bash Street appears originally in The Beano #3041 (2000/10/28). 5) Dennis' Big Birthday Party appears originally in The Beano #3061 (2001/03/17).
Illustrations from: Asterix and the Roman Agent, GOSCINNY René & UDERZO Albert Astérix et la Grande Traversée, GOSCINNY René & UDERZO Albert Asterix the Gladiator, GOSCINNY René & UDERZO Albert Le Petit Spirou: Tu Veux Mon Doigt?, TOME & JANRY Le Voyageur du Mésozoïque, FRANQUIN André
Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche – Le Vagabond des Dunes (#8) Alain Dodier 1992 © Editions Dupuis
Captain of industry Bernard-Henri Debucourt is worried. A vagabond roams the dunes near his home. Who is he? What is he looking for? Debucourt must go away for a few days on business – so he calls on Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche to watch over his son. Jérôme, playing the nanny? If only it were that simple. Jérôme simply can’t help himself from delving into the shadowy past of this esteemed family – until he realises he may have delved too deep...
Please let me share this beauteous photo (source) with you:
Yvan Delporte (wearing his famous “Y” jumper), André Franquin, Liliane Franquin and Jean Roba – the special occasion being Peyo’s 50th birthday, in 1978.
Originally seen on @elouarn’s blog.
Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche – Le Jeu de Trois (#5) Alain Dodier, Pierre Makyo 1987 © Editions Dupuis
It was just a stupid game, the kind a twenty-year-old might think up. The setting: a London college. The players: students from well-to-do families. The objective: when one player falls in love with a girl, the second participant has a week to seduce her.
But when the girl in question turns out to be the mother of Jerome K. Jerome Bloche, the “game of three” begins to look more like a real-life period drama…
Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche – L’Ombre Qui Tue (#1) Alain Dodier, Pierre Makyo, Serge Le Tendre 1985 © Editions Dupuis
Paris shakes.
In two years, fifteen people have been killed by poisoned darts. Witnesses mention a shadow bedecked in feathers, armed with a blowpipe...
“Unmask the murderer!” So begins a holiday project for Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche, student of Professor Maison’s detective correspondence class.
But even the Professor himself becomes one of the Shadow’s victims...
Just before his last breath, Professor Maison confides in Jérôme his suspicions – that the murderer is one of his coursemates...
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