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 Cover of the Belgian edition | |
| Date | 1951 |
| Series | Spirou et Fantasio |
| Publisher | Dupuis |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Franquin with Jijé Scenario by Jean Darc |
| Artists | Franquin |
| Original publication | |
| Published in | Le Journal de Spirou |
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| Date of publication | 1950 - 1951 |
| Language | French |
| ISBN | ISBN 2-8001-0004-4 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio, 1950 |
| Followed by | Les chapeaux noirs, 1952 |
Il y a un sorcier à Champignac by Franquin, is the second album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first to tell a long intricate story in what would become the Spirou tradition, in contrast to the previous short format stories. After appearing in segments in Le Journal de Spirou, it was released as a complete hardcover album in 1951. This story introduces several key characters in the series, and the village of Champignac-en-Cambrousse. (Champignac is derived from the French word for mushrooms, and 'cambrousse' means a rural backwater).
Story
In There is a Sorceror in Champignac, Spirou and Fantasio go on a bicycle camping trip to the country and turn up at the village of Champignac-en-Cambrousse. They meet its pompous mayor and rustic inhabitants, and the aloof local landowner, the Count of Champignac. Strange phenomenons are affecting farm and wild animals and the frightened villagers blame a Roma people. However Spirou and Fantasio find out that the real culprit is the Count, who has been creating strange drugs from mushrooms, and they rescue the Bohemian from a lynch mob. Later, the Count creates a drug which gives superhuman strength for a limited period of time, which a gangster steals to create mayhem.
Background
This album indicates an evolution in Franquin's line management from his previous drawing style, to a new treatment of characters and movement. Franquin's new Spirou is now distinct, and no longer an effort to draw Jijé's Spirou as precisely as possible. As it is Franquin's first truly long format story (created gradually in 2 page installments over 32 Spirou issues) its dramaturgic construction may considered as one shorter story with a separate bonus story added to the end, with the intial one being the seminal work.
Jijé is credited as co-author of the script, following a scenario by Jean Darc, alias Henri Gillain, Jijé's brother.
References
- Franquin publications dans le journal de Spirou BD oubliées
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