Spirou & Fantasio - Volume 9 - The Dictator and the Mushroom
Spirou & Fantasio - Volume 9 - The Dictator and the Mushroom

Author: Franquin

Publisher: Cinebook

Published: 2015-10-23T00:00:00+02:00

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1849188386

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After the Marsupilami causes a series of disasters, Spirou and Fantasio finally resolve to bring the strange animal back to its birth place, Palombia. Unfortunately, it’s a nation in turmoil they find upon their arrival. The military is all-powerful, rumours of impending war are growing and a ruthless tyrant has seized power. To counter the dictator’s plans, the two adventurers’ only weapon is the Count of Champignac’s latest outrageous invention: a mushroom extract that makes metals go soft...

Spirou - Volume 15 - Shadow of the Z
Spirou - Volume 15 - Shadow of the Z

Author: Franquin

Publisher: Cinebook

Published: 2018-12-20T00:00:00+01:00

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1849187908

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Arriving back at Champignac after their resounding victory over Zorglub and his Zorglmen – poor souls enslaved by a terrible will-negating wave – Spirou, Fantasio and the count discover the entire village paralysed! Another potential use of the zorglwave, and a sign that Zorglub’s remorse and his promise to free all of his men may not have been entirely sincere. Discovering the truth will take time, though, and send our friends on a trip far from home...

Spirou & Fantasio - Volume 7 - The Rhinoceros' Horn
Spirou & Fantasio - Volume 7 - The Rhinoceros' Horn

Author: Franquin

Publisher: Cinebook

Published: 2015-05-08T00:00:00+02:00

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1849188572

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Spirou and Fantasio, during a daring night investigation, encounter a wounded man who is running from mysterious men. He claims they bombed an automobile factory to steal the plans of a highly advanced prototype, and that he took half of the plans and ran. Having sworn to take the documents back to their owner – who has the other half – the two adventurers are soon on their way to Africa. But of course, the bandits are in hot pursuit...

Comics and Narration
Comics and Narration

Author: Thierry Groensteen

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2013-02-22

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1617037702

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How all the elements in the grammar of comics merge to create a storyline

Spirou in Berlin Spirou in Berlin
Spirou in Berlin Spirou in Berlin

Author: Flix

Publisher: Europe Comics

Published: 2019-03-20T00:00:00+01:00

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13:

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Spirou and Fantasio are caught up in another amazing adventure, set in a real historical context. It's summer 1989, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the evil Zantafio is trying to take over East Germany. When he kidnaps the Count of Champignac, our two heroes find out and try to rescue him. But to do that, they have to cross Europe's most heavily guarded border. East Germany's notorious Secret Police, the Stasi, are soon hot on their trail, and Fantasio is arrested. So Spirou now has to free his friend as well as foil Zantafio's diabolical scheme.

The Marsupilami's Tail
The Marsupilami's Tail

Author: Franquin

Publisher: 9th Cinebook

Published: 2017-09

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781849183635

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Readers of Spirou already know the Marsupilami - that lovable creature with the nature-defying tail. Here, in his own series, we follow the Marsupilami's life in his natural habitat. And his adventures are as funny as ever!

The French Comics Theory Reader
The French Comics Theory Reader

Author: Ann Miller

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2014-06-24

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 9058679888

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Key French-language theoretical texts on comics translated into English for the first time The French Comics Theory Reader presents a collection of key theoretical texts on comics, spanning a period from the 1960s to the 2010s, written in French and never before translated into English. The publication brings a distinctive set of authors together uniting theoretical scholars, artists, journalists, and comics critics. Readers will gain access to important debates that have taken place among major French-language comics scholars, including Thierry Groensteen, Benoît Peeters, Jan Baetens, and Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle, over the past fifty years. The collection covers a broad range of approaches to the medium, including historical, formal, sociological, philosophical, and psychoanalytic. A general introduction provides an overall context, and, in addition, each of the four thematic sections is prefaced by a brief summary of each text and an explanation of how they have influenced later work. The translations are faithful to the originals while reading clearly in English, and, where necessary, cultural references are clarified.

Cultures of Comics Work
Cultures of Comics Work

Author: Casey Brienza

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1137550902

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This anthology explores tensions between the individualistic artistic ideals and the collective industrial realities of contemporary cultural production with eighteen all-new chapters presenting pioneering empirical research on the complexities and controversies of comics work. Art Spiegelman. Alan Moore. Osamu Tezuka. Neil Gaiman. Names such as these have become synonymous with the medium of comics. Meanwhile, the large numbers of people without whose collective action no comic book would ever exist in the first place are routinely overlooked. Cultures of Comics Work unveils this hidden, global industrial labor of writers, illustrators, graphic designers, letterers, editors, printers, typesetters, publicists, publishers, distributors, translators, retailers, and countless others both directly and indirectly involved in the creative production of what is commonly thought of as the comic book. Drawing upon diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, an international and interdisciplinary cohort of cutting-edge researchers and practitioners intervenes in debates about cultural work and paves innovative directions for comics scholarship.

Murder by High Tide
Murder by High Tide

Author: M. Tillieux

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781606994511

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Gil Jordan is a nattily dressed but tough-as-nails private eye, seconded by his trusty ex-burglar assistant Crackerjack and his eccentric friend Inspector Crouton (as well as the invaluable Miss Midge). Fantagraphics' first Gil Jordan book combines two of Gil's finest yarns in one splendid hardback. In 'Murder by High Tide', Gil and his associates are hired to investigate the suspicious disappearance of an antiques dealer, while in 'Leap of Faith' they get involved in trying to protect an attorney from Joe the Needle, a mysteriously escaped convict out for vengeance.