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I have added several authors to the list. Since Spirou is a magazine over 70 years old, which for most of its existence has been a weekly magazine introducing new series on a yearly basis (with some becoming great hits and some misses mostly forgotten), and there could be a great risk for clutter, I've tried to follow some criteria for adding new names; roughly a minimum requirement that one author should at least have worked one decade for the magazine, producing at least five albums (or equivalent) in a series, although I haven't followed the requirement strictly for all examples. Some series are shorter but still notable (imho), some creators have done several shorter series, etc.惑乱 Wakuran (talk)00:32, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I heard that in 1949, there was nearly a "ban" on American comics, since they were considered too violent. This forced the editors to maintain a local production on their own, finding Belgian (and French) talent that could keep a steady production to uphold the weekly magazine. Should be added if I find any good sources for it.惑乱 Wakuran (talk)21:11, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It was the French law of 1949, officially to protect the children and so on, but in reality to protect French comics from the overwhelming success of American and Belgian comics[1]. The Belgian magazines Tintin and Spirou (which sold a lot in France) both have had troubles with this censoring, not only by severely reducing the number of American comics (which had the long-term benefit of giving many more Belgian and French authors a chance), but also by censuring Belgian comics like Blake and Mortimer, Sammy, Gil Jourdan and even Boule et Bill!This article gives some more info...Fram (talk)09:03, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, so even the Belgians had trouble with the law. I could see the reasoning, though. Between the 30's and late 50's, there seems to have been hardly any French successful comics before Asterix. Thanks for the link anyway, I need the info for an essay.惑乱 Wakuran (talk)15:38, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you can get access to it somehow, "'On Tue a chaque page': La Lai de 1949 sur les publications destinees a la jeunesse, eds. Thierry Crepin and Thierry Groensteen (Paris: Editions du Temps, 1999)" is the one for you :-)Fram (talk)16:14, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I saw it among the references. Thanks.惑乱 Wakuran (talk)21:11, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it that the article doesn't show a comic toolbox like all comic magazines' articles in Wiki?Ipsumesse (talk)18:07, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen several comic magazine artcles that lack a toolbox:Tintin,Pilote,Four Color etc. Maybe it's less applicable for anthologies.惑乱 Wakuran (talk)15:12, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The early 1980s had Spirou and Robbedoes searching for a new, appealing identity, with new formulas, more adult comics like XIII.

XIII was NOT publish by Dupuis, but it's rival Dargaud, Van Hamme publish Largo Winch at Spirou,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largo_Winch2A02:A03F:5ACA:100:5F2:17E3:8626:4321 (talk)18:53, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The first three XIII albums were prepublished in the magazine, though.[2] Dupuis and Dargaud are both owned by the same holding company.惑乱 Wakuran (talk)12:14, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Largo Winch, on the other hand, was never prepublished in Spirou, even though the albums are published at Dupuis.[3]惑乱 Wakuran (talk)12:16, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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