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Zantafio
Zantafio is a recurring fictional antagonist in the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' comic book series. He was created by André Franquin and first appeared in ''Spirou et les héritiers'' (1952). Zantafio bears a strong resemblance to Fantasio, because they are cousins. In ''Le dictateur et le champignon'' (1953), he is a South-American dictator of the fictional country Palombia. Character evolution Zantafio first appears at an inheritance contest, arrogant and in debt. He and Fantasio are the only heirs, and he who wins three challenges wins the inheritance. After continually employing dirty tactics and still losing, Zantafio admits defeat, claiming to see the errors of his cheating ways, and feels guilty about it. The cousins part on good terms while searching for the Marsupilami in the Palombian rainforest. Yet, Zantafio, under the alias of ''General Zantas'', returns as the dictator of the country, much to the surprise of Spirou and Fantasio. He offers Spirou and Fantasio a place wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Of Champignac
The long-running Franco-Belgian comics, Franco-Belgian comic series ''Spirou and Fantasio'' has a number of major and minor recurring characters. Main characters Spirou Spirou is the main character of this series. Fantasio Fantasio is introduced by Jijé in 1943 as faithful friend and comical sidekick, and appears in all published ''Spirou et Fantasio'' adventures afterwards. Recurring characters Bring M. Backalive Bring M. Backalive is an intrepid poacher who hunts in the Palombian jungles, obsessed with achieving his career's last remaining elusive triumph, to capture a live specimen Marsupilami. The character appeared in two Franquin stories, and later featured in the Marsupilami spin-off series. Appearances *24. ''La cage'' (in ''Tembo Tabou'') (Franquin) *M0. ''Capturer un Marsupilami'' (in ''Capturez un Marsupilami'') (Franquin) The Count of Champignac Pacôme Hégésippe Adélard Ladislas de Champignac is an old, castle-dwelling aristocrat, genius of a scientist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. The story was serialised in '' Spirou'' magazine before it was released as a hardcover album in 1990. Story Moments before their departure on holiday to the tropics, Spirou and Fantasio are taken by the DST for the KGB which needs them. They're told that Moscow is being terrorised by the mysterious 'White Prince of the Russian Mafia', Tanaziof. According to the KGB's information this man is an old enemy of the two heroes. If Spirou and Fantasio help to solve the case, Russia will free a French journalist who they've taken custody. In Moscow, Spirou and Fantasio discover that Tanaziof is none other than Zantafio, Fantasio's evil cousin. Zantafio's inept second-in-command, Nikita Vlalarlev, tries to assassinate the two heroes by crushing them with a part of monument, but fails. Zantafio is planning to abduct the body of Lenin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. After serial publication in '' Spirou'' magazine, the story was released as a hardcover album in 1956. Story When the Marsupilami causes chaos all over town, Spirou and Fantasio decide that it is time to take him back to his home in the Palombian jungles. After an eventful journey by cruise ship, they find that Fantasio's shady cousin Zantafio has reinvented himself as General Zantas and become the country's ruthless dictator. The now power-mad Zantafio, intent on invading a neighbouring country, offers them top positions in his army, and when they indignantly refuse throws them in jail. The pair decide to feign a change of heart, and plan to foil the invasion using one of The Count of Champignac's curious inventions... Background Two characters introduced in previous stories return for the first time in this one: the resourceful Seccotine, and the shift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. After serial publication in '' Spirou'' magazine, it was released as a complete hardcover album in 1952. Story In ''Spirou and the Heirs'', Fantasio is told he must compete against his cousin Zantafio to inherit from a long-absent uncle. The deceased has devised three trials for the two men: creating an original and useful invention, achieving a top 6 Grand Prix race position, and finally capturing a mysterious animal, the Marsupilami in the Palombian jungle. The dishonest Zantafio uses extreme tactics to win, and the two cousins are tied after the second task. The third task proves the hardest, as the creature's prodigious reflexes and abilities make it impossible to capture, until it accidentally drinks a gallon of heating oil. Spirou and Fantasio nurse it and put it in a cage. On their way back, they a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirou Et Fantasio
''Spirou & Fantasio'' (french: Spirou et Fantasio, wa, Spirou eyet Fantasio) is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comics. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European comics, European humorous adventure comics like ''The Adventures of Tintin'' and ''Asterix''. It has been written and drawn by a succession of artists. Spirou (comics), Spirou and Fantasio are the series' main characters, two adventurous journalists who run into fantastic adventures, aided by Spirou's pet squirrel Spip (comics character), Spip and their inventor friend the Champignac, Count of Champignac. History Origins of ''Spirou'' The comic strip was originally created by Robert Velter, Rob-Vel for the launch of ' (''Spirou (magazine), Spirou'' magazine) on April 21, 1938, published by Dupuis, Éditions Dupuis. The main character was originally an elevator (lift) operator (in French language, French: ) for the Moustique Hotel (in reference to the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Petit Spirou
''Le Petit Spirou'' ( nl, De Kleine Robbe, link=no; ''"Young Spirou"'') is a popular Belgian comic strip created by Tome and Janry in 1987. The series developed from ''La jeunesse de Spirou'' (1987), a ''Spirou & Fantasio'' album in which Tome and Janry (at the time the authors of the series) set to imagine Spirou's youth. It was developed into a spin-off series shortly afterwards and the authors have focused on it ever since the controversy created after their final ''Spirou et Fantasio'' album, '' Machine qui rêve'' (1998). New albums are among the bestselling French-language comics, with 330,000 copies for the latest one. In addition to continuing to develop the character in the spirit of previous ''Spirou et Fantasio'' author Franquin, in this series Tome and Janry paid homage to Franquin's manner of animating the gag's signature. Plot This series details the antics of the character as an elementary schoolboy. A lot of the gags center around the character's interest in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. The story was initially serialised in '' Spirou'' magazine before its publication as a hardcover album in 1973. Story In ''Tora Torapa'', Spirou, Fantasio, The Count, Itoh Kata and Zorglub are all gathered at Champignac, when ''The Triangle'' appears again, this time to kidnap the scientist with a dubious past, Zorglub. The heroes manage to shoot a tracking device into their abducted friend, and eventually trace the movements of the kidnappers to the island of Tora Torapa, in the past the location of an old base used by the Zorglub network. There, Triangle number one ''Papa Pop'' (cf. Papa Doc), actually one of Spirou's arch-enemies Zantafio in disguise, is waiting with evil plans for world domination, but which he needs Zorglub to set into effect. Background In this album, Ororéa is in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. The story was initially serialised in '' Spirou'' magazine, before publication grouped with ''Un Noël clandestin'' and ''Le champignon nippon'' in a hardcover album in 1970. Synopsis In ''The Gold Maker'', The Count of Champignac reveals on television that he knows the location of a coveted book revealing the secrets of ancient alchemist Nicolas Flamel, which Spirou fears may tempt many a criminal. Upon visiting Champignac they find his friend Zorglub unconscious, and the Count abducted. When Zorglub comes to, he suspects having recognized Zantafio as one of the kidnappers. ''The Clandestine Christmas'' is the story of a small, very wealthy boy Henri who prefers to spend Christmas with his unlikely friend, the much older, unwealthy Jean Babtiste. The two move outdoors to find someone to share the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. The story was initially serialised in '' Spirou'' magazine, before its release as a hardcover album in 1962. Story As ''The Shadow of Z'', begins, Spirou, Fantasio and the Count of Champignac return from Zorgland, to find the population of 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. The initial idea of Champignac is attributed to Henri Gilla ... have been paralyzed by a "zorglman" they left behind sedated, the abducted policeman Jérôme, who awoke and went on a stunning spree. After the ordeal of pacifying the rogue zorglman and restoring the people of Champignac to normal, time passes until Zorglub's sinister schemes again become evident. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mauvaise Tête
''La mauvaise tête'', written and drawn by Franquin, is the eighth album in the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' series. After serial publication in '' Spirou'' magazine the complete story was published, along with the Marsupilami short story ''Touchez pas aux rouges-gorges'', in a hardcover album in 1957. Story In ''A Head for Crime'', due to a few missing passport photos, Fantasio finds himself a victim of a conspiracy to frame him as the thief of an invaluable Egyptian gold mask. Appearing completely guilty, he is forced to flee from the law, attempting escape from the city disguised as a competing bicyclist in the 6 day mountain endurance race ''Tour de Midiville'', leaving Spirou alone with the tough task of exposing the real villains, and clearing Fantasio's name. The accompanying short story, ''Don't Touch the Robins'', describes the Marsupilami ''Marsupilami'' is a comic book character and fictional animal species created by André Franquin. Its first appearance was in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Strip Villains
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus amongst theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; '' fumetti'' is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comic albums, and ' have become increasingly common, while online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century. The history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Belgian People
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