#spiroufest 2015

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Look at the gull’s face. This picture and the next one are taken in the Comic café.

Can you step a side, please?

Picture taken in the Comic museum. Instead of fixing the broken stair, they put a panel of Haddock falling from the stairs in Les bijoux de Castafiore, as a warning.

Vehlmann making my drawing and Yoann next to him. Permission for the photo given.

Walking in Brussels, I saw a lot of Dutch shops clustered. Kruidvat, Zeeman and Blokker. I wonder if the French-speaking people in Brussels can even pronounce ‘Kruidvat’. There was also a Hema in the neighbourhood.

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Saturday evening, some artists were painting with fluorescent paint. It was apparently very dangerous material because they were all wearing protecting suits. Look at that angry Marsupilami.

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Balloons from Spiroufest.

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In the Comic café, close to the Spirou mural, Inês and me were reading comics. I found a Tintin album in Bruxellois (the language which used to be spoken in Brussels, a mixture of Dutch and French, usually French words with Dutch grammar), it’s very interesting to read. I read Le journal d’ingénu in Bruxellois too (Le journal d’un slumme kadei), but that one is more similar to French while this Tintin album is rather similar to Dutch, although I can’t make out everything.

“Castafiore?!? Tomorrow?!? Is that a joke?”

“Read it yourself”

Waddèsda na! means “What’s this now?!”

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In the reading room in the Comic book museum, Inês and me were, obviously, reading. I found some noticeable pages and panels. These are all mobile pictures so quite hazy.

The page in which Spirou has a twin brother. He never reappeared. Spirou and his twin work together to cheat on a running game.

“This drawing is a hommage by Franquin, made when Rob-Vel passed away at April 27th 1991, published in a special issue of Le journal de Spirou number 2772 at May 29th 1991.”

“I want to say thanks to Rob-Vel, my father...”

(This all is loosely translated)

This drawing isn’t quite Franquin’s regular style, it’s pretty.

“I want to see what’s going on... Dear god, that’s terrible! Spirou! Fantasio! What should I do?”

Spirou singing the song of the Amis de Spirou club, in Dutch. Yes, yes, I might should have taken a picture of the French version.