Description: Spirou 201 album...hard cover fine condition... Spirou 202, has first page torn out see photo.... Spirou (Walloon pronunciation: [spiˈʀu], Walloon pronunciation: [spiˈʀøː]; French: [spiʁu]; Walloon for "squirrel", "mischievous"; Dutch: Robbedoes) is a Belgian comic strip character and protagonist in the comic strip series Spirou & Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou, and the eponymous character of the Belgian comic strip magazine Spirou. In contrast to Tintin, Spirou is more frequently shown doing some reporting in several of his adventures. While he and reporter colleague Fantasio occasionally pursue stories, in most cases they simply find themselves in the centre of adventures. An honest and brave young man of indeterminate age, he tries to fight injustice around him and help people. He is usually more level-headed than Fantasio, who always accompanies him, along with the pet squirrel Spip, and during the period of Franquin authorship, the Marsupilami. Spirou, launched in 1938, is the oldest Belgian comics magazine still in production (not counting Zonneland, from 1920, which also features comics, but was never purely devoted to the medium). Spirou is also the oldest French-language comics magazine and only behind Il Giornalino (1924) and Detective Comics (1937) in being the oldest still-running comics magazine in the world today. Countless artists and writers have published in its pages. Not just Belgians, but also cartoonists from neighbouring countries such as France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands. After World War II Spirou was the leading European comics magazine, only rivalled by its direct competitor Tintin (1946-1993). While Spirou did publish some serious comics series in a realistic drawing style, it's major claim to fame have always been humor comics drawn in a loose, cartoony way. Their graphic style was dubbed "the School of Marcinelle". Throughout its long history Spirou launched some of the most classic and best-selling comics series in the world. It made their publishing company Dupuis one of the biggest comics companies of all time.
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Book Title: spirou
Book Series: spirou
Item Length: 8.1 in
Original Language: French
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Hardcover
Language: French
Item Height: 1.8 in
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated, Unabridged
Topic: comic strip
Item Width: 5.5 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: dupuis
Inscribed: No
Publication Year: 1994
Type: Short Stories
Era: 1990s
Author: Delporte
Genre: Comics, Franco-Belgian comics
Country/Region of Manufacture: Belgium
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
