Episode 9: Spirou for Beginners
If you’ve never read a Spirou comic before, I have a suggestion for where to start. And it’s not a book from 60 years ago. It’s not even a book from the Andre Franquin glory years, nor the long run from Tome and Janry in the 80s and 90s.
“Spirou in Berlin” is a one-off book set at the end of the Cold War. And despite that little bit of political connection to a specific time frame, Flix’s story and art make a timeless and isolated tale that can be enjoyed on its own while introducing you to all the main characters of the series: Spirou, Fantasio, and the Count, first and foremost.
This show is based on my original review of “Spirou in Berlin,” If you liked what you heard about in the show, click through to that original review to see and read much more about an excellent book.
Links of Interest:
The Color Palettes of “Spirou In Berlin”
Other Spirou Books I’ve Reviewed
By the team of Tome and Janry:
From Andre Franquin, 20 years or more earlier…
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After all 80 or 81 if 1 comes out later this year in late October or early November of this year, Lucky Luke books are all translated into English by Cinebook. What will be Cinebook’s next big series after Lucky Luke probably? Maybe Spirou and Fantasio, because, only 17/55 of the books in that series have been translated into English by Cinebook. And if this does happen, there are only 38 more Spirou and Fantasio books Cinebook has to translate into English.