Day 11: Asterix, Tintin, Spirou and Fantaio! Oh my!

[morgana006]

My collection of BD/bande dessinée comics is small but growing. Mostly I just have Tintin, and not even all of that.

So today I'll give you snippets of what I have (except for Dungeon, I already posted some.

Tintin (one page from the Black Island and one from the Blue Lotus)! Asterix (one page from Asterix and Cleopatra)! Spirou et Fantasio (two pages, Adventure Down Under)! English Translations! Whooo!



There is no theme to what pages are chosen - basically whatever caught my eye as I was flipping through them.

For someone whose outfit is iconic, Tintin sure spends a lot of time out of it. Mmm, kilt. The art student in me would also like to point out the gorgeous backgrounds.


I just like how Tintin always seems to accidentally get himself out of trouble.


Oddly enough, the new English translations start with Adventure Down Under (and my LCS hasn't got anything newer, so it's all I got). That being said, I think this scene near the beginning introduces the characters nicely.




From Asterix, a scene that cracks me up.

Wanting less whipping! My god.



That is all, hope you enjoyed!

EDIT: Sorry for the delay. Imgur works in preview, but apparently not in the actual post.

Comments

[nezchan]

"Cellophine"? Oy.

That aside, uniformly awesome as expected. I do love me some Spirou, the art of that period was wonderfully expressive, but still tight. Asterix, of course, has that great relaxed quality about it. Tintin was always a bit stiffer in movement, but made up for it with attention to detail and great writing.

And I agree, those Tintin backgrounds are to die for. I especially love how solid the rocks look.

[crinos]

Question: Did the guy who did spirou also do Iznogood? I used to own a book called "The wicked wiles of Iznogood", and it strikes me as very similar in art style.

[nezchan]

Nope, actually one of the guys who did that was Goscinny, who was co-creator of Asterix.

There were a bunch of different writers/artist teams that worked on Spirou over the years, which is a bit unusual for the BD world where stuff is usually creator-owned. They've all gone on to other things through the years, such as Franquin who did the Marsupilami series, Tome & Janry who did Young Spirou, and Morvan & Munuera who went on to do Sillage and Navis, among other works.

[morgana006]

Hmm, I just looked it up. I wonder why they changed her name.

[nezchan]

If I remember right, Seccotine is a pun of sorts, so I guess they wanted a similar "clingy" pun that an anglo audience would understand. Makes me wonder what they called the Compte de Champignac, in that case.