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Some sketches of Spirou

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I´ve done this drawing during this crazy weekend at Angoulème comic festival. Spirou is one of my favorirte BD characters thanks to the wonderful Franquin albums. In Spain the collection arrived in the late 70´s and it´s wrong-numbered and incomplete. I discovered years later with great surprise that all those albums from the 70´s and 80´s were really from the 50´s and 60´s. But same thing happened with the Smurfs.

It´s really remarkable that in the 70´s Spanish comic experimented a total revolution due to all that foreign influences. (due to dictator Franco´s regime all foreign influence was strictly censored in Spain until the late 60´s) It´s ironic that Spirou main collection is now being done by spanish artist Jose Luis Munuera. Poethic justice?

All this sketches are for an uncoming Spirou drawing I´ve now in mind. You can notice the more manga-influenced at right. I´m trying to do my personal vision of Spirou instead of copying Franquin schemes.

In left-down corner you can see a rough sketch of Mortadelo & Filemon, the more succesful spanish comic ever. A parodic couple of totally fool secret agents. I plan to give them an updating too on this site.
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paranoidanders's avatar
Love Spirou, just started re-reading my old albums. Interesting take on the two characters.