It’s confirmed for me in this book that the collections are made up of the issues that were returned from the newsstand, unsold. After every tenth issue, they’d glue those ten issues into a hardcover binding and sell it as a collection.ĭupuis, having started Spirou Journal ( see “What is Spirou Journal?”) a couple of decades before Pilote, did it first. I wrote about “ The Surprising Way They Collected “Pilote” Magazine Issues” last year. Background: What’s a Spirou Journal Collection (“Recueil”)? ![]() This will likely be the closest I’m ever going to get to a Franquin Artist’s Edition. ![]() Often, the covers are seen side by side with a picture of the original art. ![]() This is a 2017 French hardcover book that collects 22 years’ worth of Andre Franquin’s covers for the Spirou Journal collections. It’s quite the mouthful in either language, but it’s the perfect description of the book’s contents. That title above is a rough translation of the book’s French name, “ Toutes Les Couvertures des Recueils du Journal de Spirou par Franquin.”
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