''Tembo Tabou'', written by Franquin and

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, drawn by Franquin and

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, is the twenty-fourth album of the ''

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 ...

'' series, and the twentieth under Franquin's authorship. The story was initially serialised in '' Le Parisien Libéré'' in 1959, and later in '' Spirou'' magazine, before it was published, along with the

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story ''La Cage'', as a hardcover album in 1974.

Story

In ''Tembo Tabou'', Spirou and Fantasio find themselves on another expedition travelling upstream an African river, in search of vanished American author Oliver Gurgling Thirstywell. Events become increasingly more strange when they discover red elephants, befriend a pygmy tribe, learn of

's love of eating warrior ants, and confront a gang of "protection racket" thugs who cultivate meat-eating plants. The story ''The Cage'' chronicles an awful day at work for intrepid poacher Bring M. Backalive, obsessed with capturing a living sample of a baby Marsupilami, who learns the cost of angering a Marsupilami father.

Background

The title story of this album was produced in the period between the making of ''

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. The title story appeared sequentially (in black & white) in '' Le Parisien Libéré'', ...

'' and ''

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. The story was initially serialised in ...

''.

Trivia

In the 1970s, Swedish publishing house Carlsen Comics deemed the story's contents to be racially offensive, and the album was never published in Sweden. However, it was published in Denmark by Interpresse. The story was later published in Sweden in book form, included in the collected series of Franquin's Spirou.

References

Franquin publications in ''Spirou''
BDoubliées Footnotes

External links

Spirou official site album index

Franquin site album index
Comics by André Franquin Spirou et Fantasio albums 1974 graphic novels 1974 in comics Comics set in Africa Works originally published in Le Parisien Literature first published in serial form {{FrancoBelgian-comics-stub