Idées noires
L'intégrale
by André Franquin · first published 1993
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I think Gaston is still unavailable in English - I'm not such a fan of Spirou and Fantasio but I recently bought Cinebook's "The Marsupliami Thieves" as it was the only Franquin book available in English, sadly. Like you, I enjoy Gaston significantly more than Spirou; he also has a more adult work called Idées noires (Dark Thoughts), which is filled with great (and often disturbing) dark humor. I
on “What taking my daughter to a comic book store taught me” ↗Franquin's Idées Noires is one of my all time favourite comics, and one of the one pagers dealt with the death penalty (France still had the death penalty at the time it was first published in Spirou in the last 70's), expressing a similarly effective approach to making it unpalatable.. [1]. A rough translation (my French is rusty - been a decade or two): "The law is clear: Anyone who intentional
on “Man Convicted Based on Erroneous Evidence Exonerated After 25 Years” ↗It sounds crazy to me that Franquin's masterworks (Gaston and Idées Noires) were not yet translated in English yet ! For sure it would not appeal to US mass market but certainly there is also a small connoisseur market out there ?
on “In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business” ↗Well put. Apart from the lengthy threads here regularly on how flawed the very notion of free will that's necessary to even justify this focus on vengeance, I absolutely agree with you that if you're going to argue for vengeance and have a moral leg to stand on you better at least not argue for such an outcome. I like to point to this page from Franquin's Idées Noires (finally in English as "Die
on “Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly” ↗