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André Franquin (Etterbeek, 3 gennaio 1924 – Saint-Laurent-du-Var, 5 gennaio 1997) è stato un fumettista belga
André Franquin, né le 3 janvier 1924 à Etterbeek (province de Brabant, Belgique) et mort le 5 janvier 1997 à Saint-Laurent-du-Var (Alpes-Maritimes, France), est un auteur belge francophone de bande dessinée, principalement connu pour les séries Spirou et Fantasio, Gaston, Modeste et Pompon et les Idées noires ; il est aussi le ...
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Franquin's beginnings
Franquin was born in Etterbeek in 1924. Although he started drawing at an early age, Franquin got his first actual drawing lessons at École Saint-Luc in 1943. A year later, however, the school was forced to close down because of the war and Franquin was then hired by Compagnie belge d'actualités (CBA), a short-lived animation studio in Brussels. It is there he met some of his future colleagues: Maurice de Bevere (Morris, creator of Lucky Luke), Pierre Culliford (Peyo, creator of the Smurfs),...
Mid period
By 1951, Franquin had found his style. His strip, that appeared every week on the first page of Spirou, was a hit. Following Jijé's lead in the 1940s, Franquin coached a younger generation of comics artists in the 1950s, notably Jean Roba and Jidéhem, who both worked with him on Spirou et Fantasio. In 1955, following a contractual dispute with his publisher Dupuis, Franquin went for a short stint at rival Tintin magazine. This led to the creation of Modeste et Pompon, a gag series which inclu...
Franquin's later period
The 1960s saw a clear evolution in Franquin's style, which grew more loose and intricate. This graphical evolution would continue throughout the next decade. Soon, Franquin was considered an undisputed master of the art form, on par with the likes of Hergé and his influence can be seen in the work of nearly every cartoonist hired by Spirou up until the end of the 1990s. Early comic fanzines from around 1970 featured Franquin's Monsters, individual drawings of imaginary beasts highlighting his...
Franquin's style rests in opposite corners of the aesthetic spectrum from Hergé: If the pictures of Tintin's creator were characterized by the use of ligne claire, flat colors, and certain statics, Franquin's graphic approach progressively evolved towards a multi-color aesthetics, chiaroscuroand a vigorous sense of movement. Hergé expressed on seve...
Sign in Brussels, tribute to André FranquinEspace Franquin at AngoulêmeOne-shots
1. Cauchemarrant(1979, published by Bédérama) 2. Les robinsons du rail(1981, art by Franquin, text by Yvan Delporte; published by L'Atelier) 3. Les démêlés d'Arnest Ringard et d'Augraphie(1981, art by Frédéric Jannin, text by Franquin and Yvan Delporte) 4. L'Encyclopédie du Marsupilami(1991, illustrated faux encyclopedia about Marsupilami) 5. Arnest Ringard et Augraphie(2006, art by Frédéric Jannin, text by Franquin and Yvan Delporte; redrawn and extended version of the above) 6. Slowburn(198...
Sketchbooks
(published by Marsu Productions) 1. Les doodles de Franquin 2. Le bestiaire de Franquin 3. Le bestiaire de Franquin tome 2 4. Les monstres de Franquin 5. Les monstres de Franquin tome 2 6. Tronches à gogo 7. Les signatures de Franquin
Jacky Goupil, Livre d'or Franquin: Gaston, Spirou et les autres...Numa Sadoul, Et Franquin créa la gaffePhilippe Vandooren, Franquin/JijéLes cahiers de la BD#47-487 nov 2022 · Merito del genio di Franquin, uno dei più straordinari autori dell’arte dei comics, paragonabile, per la verve umoristica, al nostro Benito Jacovitti. Franquin sfrutta tutta la gamma della comicità: il gusto per l’assurdo, le running gags, la satira e la pantomima.
- Andrea Sani
Toute l'actualité Franquin au bout de la souris... Des compléments indispensables à l'oeuvre de Franquin... André Franquin : une oeuvre, une vie.
Belgian comic artist André Franquin is widely considered one of the major artists of European comics. A leading contributor to Spirou magazine, he was the third lead writer/artist of the title comic, 'Spirou et Fantasio'.
25 nov 2022 · Questa settimana, Nona Arte porta in libreria l’edizione integrale di Modeste e Pompon, fumetto realizzato negli anni Cinquanta da André Franquin con la collaborazione ai testi di René Goscinny e Greg. È la prima edizione italiana in volume della serie, a quasi 70 anni dalla sua prima pubblicazione in Belgio.
