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Spirou & Fantasio (Spirou et Fantasio), commonly shortened to Spirou, is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comics.^[1]

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Akira (manga)

is a Japanese cyberpunk post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo.

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Alex Lutz

Alex Lutz (born 24 August 1978) is a French actor, comedian and director.

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André Franquin (3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best-known creations are Gaston and Marsupilami. Spirou & Fantasio and André Franquin are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Angoulême International Comics Festival

The Angoulême International Comics Festival (Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket of Japan.

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Asterix

Asterix (Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois, "Asterix the Gaul") (also known as Asterix and Obelix in some adaptations or The Adventures of Asterix) is a comic book series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors (including the titular hero Asterix) who adventure around the world and fight the odds of the Roman Republic, with the aid of a magic potion, during the era of Julius Caesar, in an ahistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars. Spirou & Fantasio and Asterix are bandes dessinées, comics adapted into animated series, Fantasy comics and humor comics.

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Atari SA

Atari SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment SA) is a French video game holding company headquartered in Paris.

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Aventure en Australie

Aventure en Australie, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the thirty-fourth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the second of the authors.

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Émile Bravo

Émile Bravo (born 18 September 1964) is a French comics artist. Spirou & Fantasio and Émile Bravo are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Bande dessinée

Bandes dessinées (singular bande dessinée; literally 'drawn strips'), abbreviated BDs and also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics (BD franco-belge), are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium. Spirou & Fantasio and bande dessinée are bandes dessinées.

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

The Bay of Pigs Invasion (sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, clandestinely financed and directed by the U.S.

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Bellhop

A bellhop (North America), or hotel porter (international), is a hotel employee who helps patrons with their luggage while checking in or out.

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Bernard Hislaire

Bernard Hislaire (born 11 January 1957) is a Belgian comic book creator.

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Bernard Prince

Bernard Prince is a Franco-Belgian comics series, featuring an eponymous character and his sailor-adventurer companions. Spirou & Fantasio and Bernard Prince are adventure comics, bandes dessinées, Belgian comic strips and comics set in Belgium.

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Bruno Brazil

Bruno Brazil is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Greg, under the pseudonym Louis Albert, and drawn by William Vance. Spirou & Fantasio and Bruno Brazil are adventure comics, bandes dessinées, Belgian comic strips and Belgian comics titles.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Brussels' Comic Book Route

Brussels' Comic Book Route (Parcours BD de Bruxelles; Striproute van Brussel) is a path composed by several comic strip murals, which cover the walls of several buildings throughout the inner City of Brussels, as well as the neighbourhoods of Laeken and Auderghem.

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Catalan language

Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.

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Champignac

Champignac, or specifically Champignac-en-Cambrousse, is a fictional village frequently featured in the adventures of Spirou et Fantasio by André Franquin and the successive authors. Spirou & Fantasio and Champignac are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Charleroi

Charleroi (Tchålerwè) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Christian Clavier

Christian Jean-Marie Clavier (born 6 May 1952) is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and director.

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Cinebook

Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes comic albums and graphic novels.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Dany (comics)

Dany, pseudonym for Daniel Henrotin (born 28 January 1943) is a Belgian comic book artist, best known for Olivier Rameau and Ça vous intéresse?.

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Des haricots partout

Des haricots partout, written and drawn by Fournier, is the twenty-ninth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the author's ninth and final contribution to the series.

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Didier Conrad

Didier Conrad (born 6 May 1959) is a French comics artist and writer.

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Diptych

A diptych is any object with two flat plates which form a pair, often attached by a hinge.

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Du cidre pour les étoiles

Du cidre pour les étoiles (Cider for the Stars), written and drawn by Fournier, is the twentysixth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the author's sixth, following the Spirou retirement of André Franquin.

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Du glucose pour Noémie

Du glucose pour Noémie, written and drawn by Fournier, is the twentyfirst album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the author's second, following the Spirou retirement of André Franquin.

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Dupuis

Éditions Dupuis S.A. is a Belgian publisher of comic albums and magazines.

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Dutch language

Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.

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Edo period

The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.

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Egmont Group

The Egmont Group (officially Egmont International Holding A/S; known as Gutenberghus Group until 1992) is a Danish media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Europe Comics

Europe Comics is a pan-European comics and graphic novel digital venture run by 13 European comics publishers from eight European countries.

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European comics

European comics are comics produced in Europe.

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Exoplanet

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.

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Fabien Vehlmann

Fabien Vehlmann (born 30 January 1972) is a French comics writer best known for Green Manor and Seuls.

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Finnish language

Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.

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François Duvalier

François Duvalier (14 April 190721 April 1971), also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician who served as the president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.

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Frank Le Gall

Frank Le Gall (born 23 September 1959 in Rouen), is a French author of comics.

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Frank Pé

Frank Pé, often signing solely as Frank (15 July 1956) is a Belgian comic book artist, best known for Broussaille and Zoo.

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Franquin's Last Laugh

Franquin's Last Laugh (Idées noires: Dark thoughts) is a collection of black comedy comic strips drawn by André Franquin, written by Franquin and Yvan Delporte. Spirou & Fantasio and Franquin's Last Laugh are bandes dessinées, Belgian comic strips and humor comics.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Galician language

Galician (galego), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language.

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Gaston (comics)

Gaston is a Belgian gag-a-day comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou. Spirou & Fantasio and Gaston (comics) are bandes dessinées, Belgian comic strips, Belgian comics adapted into films, Belgian comics titles, comics adapted into animated series, comics adapted into television series, comics set in Belgium, Dupuis titles and Spirou et Fantasio.

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Géraldine Nakache

Géraldine Nakache (born 16 February 1980) is a French actress, director and screenwriter of Algerian Jewish descent.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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German reunification

German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Greg (cartoonist)

Michel Régnier (5 May 1931 – 29 October 1999), best known by his pseudonym Greg, was a Belgian cartoonist best known for Achille Talon, and later became editor of Tintin magazine.

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Gynoid

A gynoid, or fembot, is a feminine humanoid robot.

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Hanco Kolk

Hanco Kolk (born 11 March 1957, Den Helder) is a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist.

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Icelandic language

Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.

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Il y a un sorcier à Champignac

Il y a un sorcier à Champignac, by Franquin, is the second album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first to tell a long intricate story in what would become the Spirou tradition, in contrast to the previous short format stories.

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Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official and national language of Indonesia.

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Infrared

Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Ixelles

italic (French) or italic (Dutch) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Jean-Claude Fournier

Jean-Claude Fournier (born 21 May 1943), known simply as Fournier, is a French cartoonist best known as the comic book artist who handled Spirou et Fantasio in the years 1969-1979. Spirou & Fantasio and Jean-Claude Fournier are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Jean-David Morvan

Morvan in 2017. Jean-David Morvan (born 28 November 1969) is a French comics author. Spirou & Fantasio and Jean-David Morvan are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Jean-Richard Geurts

Jean-Richard Geurts, better known under his pseudonym Janry (born 2 October 1957), is a Belgian comics artist. Spirou & Fantasio and Jean-Richard Geurts are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Jidéhem

Jean De Mesmaeker (21 December 1935 – 30 April 2017), known by the pseudonym Jidéhem (from the initials "JDM"), was a Belgian comics artist in the Marcinelle school tradition.

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Jijé

Joseph Gillain, better known by his pen name Jijé (13 January 1914 – 19 June 1980), was a Belgian comics artist, best known for being a seminal artist on the Spirou et Fantasio strip (and for having introduced the Fantasio character) and the creator of one of the first major European western strips, Jerry Spring. Spirou & Fantasio and Jijé are Spirou et Fantasio.

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José Luis Munuera

José Luis Munuera (born 21 April 1972, in Lorca in the region of Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish comics artist. Spirou & Fantasio and José Luis Munuera are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.

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Jul (writer)

Julien Berjeaut, known as Jul, (born April 11, 1974), is a French cartoonist and comic book author.

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Knockout (1971 comic)

Knockout was a weekly British comics periodical published by Fleetway Publications from 12 June 1971 to 23 June 1973. Spirou & Fantasio and Knockout (1971 comic) are humor comics.

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Kodo le tyran

Kodo le tyran ("Kodo the Tyrant"), written and drawn by Jean-Claude Fournier, is the twenty-eighth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the author's eighth, following the Spirou retirement of André Franquin.

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L'abbaye truquée

Category:Graphic novels L'abbaye truquée, written and drawn by Fournier, is the twenty-second album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the author's third, following the Spirou retirement of André Franquin.

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L'Ankou

L'Ankou, written and drawn by Fournier, is the twenty-seventh album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the author's seventh, following the Spirou retirement of André Franquin.

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L'horloger de la comète

L'horloger de la comète, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the thirty-sixth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the fourth of the authors.

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L'ombre du Z

L'ombre du Z, written and drawn by Franquin with Greg and Jidéhem, is the sixteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the second part of Franquin's Zorglub diptych.

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La boîte noire

La boîte noire, by Nic (Broca) & Cauvin, is the thirty-first album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the second of the authors.

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La ceinture du grand froid

La ceinture du grand froid, by Nic & Cauvin, is the thirtieth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first of the authors.

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La Corne de rhinocéros

La corne de rhinocéros, written and drawn by Franquin, is the sixth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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La frousse aux trousses

La frousse aux trousses, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the fortieth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the eighth of the authors.

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La jeunesse de Spirou

La jeunesse de Spirou, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the thirty-eighth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the sixth of the authors.

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La mauvaise tête

La mauvaise tête, written and drawn by Franquin, is the eighth album in the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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La Poste (France)

La Poste is a postal service company in France, operating in Metropolitan France, the five French overseas departments and regions and the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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La vallée des bannis

La vallée des bannis, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the forty first volume in the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the ninth from the Tome & Janry team.

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Le dictateur et le champignon

Le dictateur et le champignon, written and drawn by Franquin, is the seventh album of the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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Le faiseur d'or

Le faiseur d'or, written and drawn by Fournier, is the twentieth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first to follow the Spirou retirement of André Franquin.

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Le gorille a bonne mine

Le gorille a bonne mine, written and drawn by Franquin, is the eleventh album of the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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Le gri-gri du Niokolo-Koba

Le gri-gri du Niokolo-Koba, written and drawn by Fournier, is the twenty-fifth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the author's fifth, following the retirement from Spirou magazine of André Franquin.

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Le nid des Marsupilamis

Le nid des Marsupilamis, written and drawn by Franquin, is the twelfth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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Le Petit Spirou

Le Petit Spirou (De Kleine Robbe; "Young Spirou") is a popular Belgian comic strip created by Tome and Janry in 1987. Spirou & Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou are Belgian comic strips, Belgian comics adapted into films, comics adapted into animated series, comics adapted into television series, Dupuis titles and Spirou et Fantasio.

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Le prisonnier du Bouddha

Le prisonnier du Bouddha, written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin with assistance by Jidéhem, is the fourteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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Le réveil du Z

Le réveil du Z, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the thirty-seventh album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the fifth of the authors.

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Le repaire de la murène

Le repaire de la murène, written and drawn by Franquin, is the ninth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, adding underwater adventure to the Spirou universe.

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Le voyageur du Mésozoïque

Le voyageur du Mésozoïque, written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin with assistance by Jidéhem, is the thirteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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Les Chapeaux noirs

Les Chapeaux noirs, album in the Belgian comic series Spirou et Fantasio, released in 1952.

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Les faiseurs de silence

Les faiseurs de silence, by Nic & Cauvin, is the thirty-second album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the third of the authors.

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Les pirates du silence

Les pirates du silence, written and drawn by Franquin, is the tenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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Les voleurs du Marsupilami

Les voleurs du Marsupilami, published in English as The Marsupilami Thieves, is the fifth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, written and drawn by Franquin.

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Lewis Trondheim

Lewis Trondheim (born Laurent Chabosy,, on 11 December 1964) is a French cartoonist and one of the founders (in 1990) of the independent publisher L'Association.

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Live action

Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation.

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Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke is a Western bande dessinée series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946. Spirou & Fantasio and Lucky Luke are adventure comics, bandes dessinées, Belgian comic strips, Belgian comics adapted into films, Belgian comics titles, comics adapted into animated series, comics adapted into television series, Dupuis titles and humor comics.

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Mad scientist

The mad scientist (also mad doctor or mad professor) is a stock character of a scientist who is perceived as "mad, bad and dangerous to know" or "insane" owing to a combination of unusual or unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious, taboo or hubristic nature of their experiments.

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Magic (illusion)

Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage magic, and close-up magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means.

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Magician (fantasy)

A magician, also known as an archimage, mage, magus, magic-user, spellcaster, enchanter/enchantress, sorcerer/sorceress, warlock, witch, or wizard, is someone who uses or practices magic derived from supernatural, occult, or arcane sources.

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Manga

are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.

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Manneken Pis

paren) is a landmark bronze fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, depicting a puer mingens; a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. Though its existence is attested as early as the mid-15th century, Manneken Pis was redesigned by the Brabantine sculptor Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder and put in place in 1619.

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Marsupilami

Marsupilami is a comic book character and fictional animal species created by André Franquin. Spirou & Fantasio and Marsupilami are bandes dessinées, Belgian comic strips, Belgian comics adapted into films, comics adapted into animated series, comics adapted into television series, Dupuis titles, humor comics and Spirou et Fantasio.

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Meiji era

The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Middelkerke

Middelkerke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders, on the North Sea, west of Ostend.

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Moray eel

Moray eels, or Muraenidae, are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide.

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North Germanic languages

The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.

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Olivier Schwartz

Olivier Schwartz is a French pharmacist who, since 2018, has served as scientific director of the Institut Pasteur.

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Panade à Champignac

Panade à Champignac is the nineteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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Philately

Philately is the study of postage stamps and postal history.

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Philippe Vandevelde

Philippe Vandevelde, working under the pseudonym Tome (24 February 1957 – 5 October 2019), was a Belgian comics writer. Spirou & Fantasio and Philippe Vandevelde are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Planet

A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.

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Playtoons

Playtoons is a series of linked games, released in 1994 by Sierra On-Line, which allow players to make their own animations using a variety of characters, backgrounds, scenery and props from either a single game or a mixture from the full series.

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Polarimetry

Polarimetry is the measurement and interpretation of the polarization of transverse waves, most notably electromagnetic waves, such as radio or light waves.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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QRN sur Bretzelburg

QRN sur Bretzelburg (Eng. Lit., QRN over Bretzelburg), written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin with assistance by Jidéhem, is the eighteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio

Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio, written and drawn by Franquin, is a collection of four stories from serial publication between 1948 and 1950 in Spirou magazine, namely Spirou et les plans du robot, Spirou sur le ring, Spirou fait du cheval, and Spirou chez les Pygmées. Spirou & Fantasio and Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio are comics set in Belgium.

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Qui arrêtera Cyanure?

Qui arrêtera Cyanure?, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the thirty-fifth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the third of the authors.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Ramzy Bedia

Ramzy Habib El Haq Bedia (رمزي حبيب الحق بيديا.; born 10 March 1972) is a French actor, screenwriter, and film director of Algerian descent.

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Raoul Cauvin

Raoul Cauvin (26 September 1938 – 19 August 2021) was a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field. Spirou & Fantasio and Raoul Cauvin are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Robert Velter

François Robert Velter (9 February 1909 – 27 April 1991), known by his pen-name Rob-Vel, was a French cartoonist. Spirou & Fantasio and Robert Velter are Spirou et Fantasio.

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RTBF

The i ("Belgian Radio-television of the French Community"), shortened to RTBF (branded as rtbf.be), is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Community of Belgium, in Wallonia and Brussels.

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Scientist

A scientist is a person who researches to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences.

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Seccotine

Seccotine is a recurring character from the Spirou et Fantasio comics, and the first major female character of the series, a strong-willed reporter. Spirou & Fantasio and Seccotine are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Seine

The Seine is a river in northern France.

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Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian – also called Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.

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Soda (comics)

Soda is a Franco-Belgian comics series by Tome (writing) and Bruno Gazzotti (art). Spirou & Fantasio and Soda (comics) are Belgian comic strips and Dupuis titles.

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Sophie (comics)

Sophie is a Belgian comics series, originally written by Vicq and co-written and drawn by Jidéhem. Spirou & Fantasio and Sophie (comics) are adventure comics, Belgian comic strips, Belgian comics titles, comics set in Belgium, Dupuis titles and humor comics.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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SPECTRE

SPECTRE ("Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion") is a fictional organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, as well as films and video games based in the same universe.

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Speedometer

A speedometer or speed meter is a gauge that measures and displays the instantaneous speed of a vehicle.

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Spip (comics character)

Spip is a fictional Eurasian red squirrel and a main character in the Belgian comic strip Spirou et Fantasio. Spirou & Fantasio and Spip (comics character) are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Spirou (comics)

Spirou (Walloon for "squirrel", "mischievous"; 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. Spirou & Fantasio and Spirou (comics) are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Spirou (magazine)

Spirou (Le Journal de Spirou) is a weekly Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company since April 21, 1938. Spirou & Fantasio and Spirou (magazine) are 1938 comics debuts, bandes dessinées, Dupuis titles and Spirou et Fantasio.

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Spirou (video game)

Spirou is a platform game developed and published by Infogrames during 1995 for the Mega Drive and 1996 for the Super NES, and Game Boy video game consoles, and for Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS. Spirou & Fantasio and Spirou (video game) are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Spirou à Moscou

Spirou à Moscou, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the forty-second album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the tenth of the authors.

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Spirou à New York

Spirou à New York, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the thirty-ninth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the seventh of the authors.

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Spirou et Fantasio (comic book)

Spirou et Fantasio, written and drawn by Franquin (except for a few plates by Jijé), is an album that precedes the main Spirou et Fantasio album series.

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Spirou et Fantasio (TV series)

Spirou et Fantasio, or, Les nouvelles aventures de Spirou et Fantasio, is a French-Belgian animated comedy-adventure television series based on the Franco-Belgian comics series Spirou et Fantasio. Spirou & Fantasio and Spirou et Fantasio (TV series) are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Spirou et l'aventure

Spirou et l'aventure, written and drawn by Jijé, is the first published album containing Spirou et Fantasio adventures.

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Spirou et les héritiers

Spirou et les héritiers, written and drawn by Franquin, is the fourth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and a great leap in the expansion of the Spirou universe.

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Spirou et les hommes-bulles

Spirou et les hommes-bulles (Spirou and the bubble-men), written and drawn by Franquin, is the seventeenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series.

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Spirou: The Robot Invasion

Spirou: The Robot Invasion (released in French-speaking countries as Spirou: La Panique mécanique) is a 2000 Game Boy Color game developed by Planet Interactive Development and produced by Ubi Soft.

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Squirrel

Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents.

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Story arc

A story arc (also narrative arc) is the chronological construction of a plot in a novel or story.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Superhero

A superhero or superheroine is a stock character who typically possesses ''superpowers'' or abilities beyond those of ordinary people, is frequently costumed concealing their identity, and fits the role of the hero; typically using their powers to help the world become a better place, or dedicating themselves to protecting the public and fighting crime.

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Tembo Tabou

Tembo Tabou, written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin and Jean Roba, is the twenty-fourth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the twentieth under Franquin's authorship.

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Théodore Poussin

Théodore Poussin is a Franco-Belgian comics book series created by the French writer Frank Le Gall. Spirou & Fantasio and Théodore Poussin are adventure comics, bandes dessinées and Dupuis titles.

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The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé. Spirou & Fantasio and the Adventures of Tintin are adventure comics, bandes dessinées, Belgian comic strips, Belgian comics adapted into films, Belgian comics titles, Belgium in fiction, comics adapted into animated series, comics adapted into television series, comics set in Belgium and humor comics.

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The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tora Torapa

Tora Torapa, written and drawn by Fournier, is the twenty-third album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the author's fourth, following the Spirou retirement of André Franquin.

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Turkish language

Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers.

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Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world.

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Vietnamese language

Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.

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Virus (Spirou et Fantasio)

Virus, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the 33rd album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first to come from this creative team, carrying on the series after the work of previous authors.

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Vito Corleone

Vito Corleone (born Vito Andolini) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and in the first two of Francis Ford Coppola's film trilogy.

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Vito la Déveine

Vito la Déveine, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the forty-third album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the eleventh album created by the authors.

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Walloon language

Walloon (natively walon; wallon) is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and, to a very small extent, in Brussels, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, United States.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yoann

Yoann Chivard (born 8 October 1971 in Alençon, Orne), better known under the artist name Yoann is a French comics artist.

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Yvan Delporte

Yvan Delporte (24 June 1928 – 5 March 2007) was a Belgian comics writer, and was editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine between 1955 and 1968 during a period considered by many the golden age of Franco-Belgian comics.

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Yves Chaland

Yves Chaland (3 April 1957 – 18 July 1990) was a French cartoonist.

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Yves Sente

Yves Sente (born 17 January 1964) is a Belgian comic book editor and author.

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Z comme Zorglub

Z comme Zorglub, written and drawn by Franquin, is the fifteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first part of Franquin's Zorglub diptych.

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Zantafio

Zantafio is a recurring fictional antagonist in the Spirou et Fantasio comic book series. Spirou & Fantasio and Zantafio are Spirou et Fantasio.

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Zorglub

Zorglub is a fictional character in the Belgian comic strip Spirou et Fantasio, created by Greg and André Franquin, and first appeared in the serialised story Z comme Zorglub in Spirou magazine in 1959, later published in the diptych albums "Z comme Zorglub" (1961) and "L'ombre du Z" (1962). Spirou & Fantasio and Zorglub are Spirou et Fantasio.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirou_%26_Fantasio

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