André Franquin
Belgian comic artist. Creator of Gaston and Marsupilami.
Name:
André Franquin
Aliases:
Birth date:
January 3rd, 1924
Death date:
January 5th, 1997
Home town:
Brussels
Country:
Belgium
| Séries principales | de | à | Rôle |
|---|---|---|---|
 (Catalogues) Expositions | 1981 | 2000 | |
| Animaux a(d)mis | 1990 | ||
| Arnest Ringard et Augraphie | 1981 | ||
| Best Of BD Numérique | 2013 | ||
| Cauchemarrant | 1979 | ||
| Contes de Noël du journal Spirou | 2020 | ||
| Entre chats | 1989 | ||
| Flash Back | 1995 | ||
| Fluide Glacial spécial anniversaire | 2005 | ||
| Gaston | 1960 | 2008 | |
| Gaston (1997) (40e anniversaire) | 1997 | 1999 | |
| Gaston (2009) | 1999 | 2014 | |
| Gaston (2018) | 2021 | ||
| Gaston (Edition Collector) - Collection Télé 7 jours | 2012 | ||
| Gaston (Fac-similés) | 2005 | ||
| Gaston (Hors-série) | 1965 | 2019 | |
| Gaston (Poche) | 1987 | 1995 | |
| Gaston (quotidien régional 2013) | 2013 | ||
| Gaston (Sélection) | 2011 | 2018 | |
| Gaston (Tout Gaston) | 2013 | 2014 | |
| Histoires d'œuf | 1989 | ||
| Idées noires | 1981 | 2017 | |
| Il était une fois... Les Belges | 1980 | ||
| Isabelle (Will) | 1980 | 1986 | |
| Marsupilami | 1991 | 2012 | |
| Marsupilami (jeux) | 2016 | ||
| Modeste et Pompon (Franquin) | 1958 | 2017 | |
| Modeste et Pompon (Intégrale Himalaya) | 1988 | 1990 | |
| Petit Noël | 1959 | 1994 | |
| Place aux Renards | 1985 | ||
| Rire c'est rire | 1995 | ||
| Robinsons du rail (Les) | 1981 | 1993 | |
| Slowburn | 1982 | ||
| Sous le signe du verso | 2000 | ||
| Souvenirs du vingtième siècle | 1983 | ||
| Spirou (Almanachs & Album+) | 2007 | ||
| Spirou (La Véritable Histoire de) | 2016 | ||
| Spirou et Fantasio | 1948 | 2021 | |
| Spirou et Fantasio (L'intégrale Version Originale) | 2006 | 2019 | |
| Spirou et Fantasio -2- (Divers) | 1976 | 2020 | |
| Spécial animaux | 1986 | ||
| SuperDupont | 1982 | ||
| Tifous (Les) | 1990 | ||
| Trombone Illustré (Le) | 2005 | ||
| Vacheries de Corinne à Jeannot (Les) | 1980 | ||
 Die Laughing | 2018 | ||
 Gaston (en allemand) | 1985 | 2008 | |
 Gaston (en danois) (Vakse Viggo) | 1976 | 1991 | |
 Gaston (en italien) | 1977 | 2011 | |
| Gaston (en langues régionales) | 1983 | 2021 | |
| Gaston (en langues étrangères) | 1988 | 2012 | |
 Gaston (en portugais) (Gastão) | 1978 | 2005 | |
| Gaston (en suédois) | 1991 | ||
| Gomer Goof (Gaston en anglais) | 2017 | 2021 | |
 Guust | 1969 | 2017 | |
| Kunst des André Franquin (Die) | 1988 | ||
| Modesto e Pompom | 2005 | ||
 Modesto y Pompón | 2016 | ||
| Mustat Sivut | 1984 | ||
| Spirou & Fantasio (en anglais) | 2014 | 2020 | |
| Spirou e Fantásio (en portugais) | 1966 | 2007 | |
| Spirou et Fantasio (en langues régionales) | 2009 | ||
| Spirou et Fantasio (en langues étrangères) | 1977 | ||
| Spirou y Fantasio (Ediciones Junior s.a - 1982) | 1983 | ||
| Spirou y Fantasio (Franquin - Planeta DeAgostini 2002) | 2002 | 2005 | |
| Spirous äventyr | 1981 | ||
| Splint & Co. | 1983 | 1986 | |
| Sprint | 2006 | ||
| Tomás El Gafe | 2007 |
Born January 3, 1924 in Etterbeek (Brussels, Belgium), André Franquin, after a year of drawing lessons at St-Luc (Brussels), entered in 1944, then aged 20, as an animator in the drawing studio CBA anime. During his short years as an animator, he met Peyo, the creator of the Smurfs Eddy Paape, that of Luc Orient, and Morris, that of Lucky Luke. It is the latter who introduces him to Jijé, Spirou's father. In 1946, Jijé gave him the character, emblem of the newspaper Spirou after a conclusive essay appeared in the Almanac Spirou of 1947. The character was created in 1938 by the Frenchman Robert Velter (better known as ''Rob-Vel' ') who, once mobilized, no longer managed to get his boards to Belgium in time. Franquin not only took over the character of Spirou, he also added his signature and, for fear of not making people laugh, he inserts gags ''to be sure''. He also refines Fantasio, the wacky friend of Spirou, the village of Champignac, and especially the work on characters such as Count Pacôme Hégésippe Adélard Ladislas de Champignac, Zorglub and in ''Spirou et les Héritiers'' (1952) appears the Marsupilami of Palombia, which will accompany Spirou and Fantasio in all the adventures subsequently drawn by Franquin. 1955 sees a dispute between Dupuis and Franquin because of royalties on an album. He then joined Éditions Le Lombard and signed a 5-year contract there. He creates Modeste and Pompon for the Tintin newspaper. He is reconciled with Dupuis and returns to the workshops of Marcinelles. However, he continued to work for four years at Le Lombard. Of a lazy nature, he created his double and made him a very special hero in comics, Gaston Lagaffe, who was born on February 28, 1957. In ''Le Trombone illustré'', a publication of 30 issues accompanying the newspaper Spirou, he shares his dark thoughts which will appear later in ''Fluide glacial''. From 1987, with Batem in the drawing, Franquin designed a series of albums published by Marsu-Productions with, as hero, the Marsupilami whose rights he had jealously guarded. On November 27, 1996, Marsu-Productions offers a new album by Lagaffe assembling a series of boards published in ''Spirou'' and never published in album. At the age of 73, on Sunday January 5, 1997, Franquin, who had become one of the founding fathers of Belgian comics, discreetly left the scene of the 9th Art. He thus leaves us alone with very sympathetic heroes and a collection of eccentric signatures, ''Signés Franquin''.
