''Capturez un Marsupilami!'', written and drawn by

André Franquin André Franquin (; 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best-known creations are ''Gaston (comics), Gaston'' and ''Marsupilami''. He also produced the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' comic strip from 1946 to ...

, is a comic album containing the adventures and short gags of the

Marsupilami ''Marsupilami'' is a comic book character and fictional animal species created by André Franquin. Its first appearance was in the 31 January 1952 issue of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou''. Since then it appeared regularly in th ...

. Although not collected in one album until 2002, the contents are the earliest works of the original artist, from publications in ''Risque Tout'' and '' Spirou'' magazine, and therefore given the number 0 in the series of ''Marsupilami'' albums.

Story

*''Le Marsupilami descend sur la ville'' (''The Marsupilami Goes to the Village''), 1955 *''Noël d’un bagarreur'' (''A Warrior's Christmas''), 1956 *''La bûche de noël'' (''The Work of Christmas''), 1957 *''Touchez pas aux rouges-gorges'' (''Don't Touch the Robins''), 1956 *''Les patins téléguidés'' (''The Remote-controlled Rollerskates''), 1957 *''Le homard'' (''The Lobster''), 1957 *''Tarzan'' (previously named ''Houu Bai''), 1977 *''La cage'' (''The Cage''), 1965 #1420 *''Capturer un marsupilami'' (''To Capture a Marsupilami''), 1977-1981 and 15 short gags from 1968 to 1972

Background

For the 50th anniversary of the character, Marsu Productions assembled this album, composed of the majority of Franquin's Marsupilami solo stories. ''Touchez pas aux rouges-gorges'' and ''La cage'' had been included in ''

Spirou et Fantasio ''Spirou & Fantasio'' (), commonly shortened to ''Spirou'', is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comics. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European comics, European humorous adventu ...

'' albums, but other stories were previously published in varied forms of ''Spirou'' context. This release also collects Franquin's two stories featuring the intrepid poacher Bring M. Backalive, and a story featuring the secondary ''Spirou et Fantasio'' character

Le Petit Noël Noël, or Le Petit Noël, is the main character of an eponymous Belgian comics series, and a secondary character of ''Spirou et Fantasio''. His name means "Christmas" in French. The series ''Noël'' was created in 1957 by André Franquin and Ji ...

. The album's title was given by the title of the final story, ''Capturer un Marsupilami'', but the

verb tense In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference. Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs, particularly in their conjugation patterns. The main tenses found in many languages include the past, present, an ...

is changed from

infinitive Infinitive ( abbreviated ) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs that do not show a tense. As with many linguistic concepts, there is not a single definition applicable to all ...

to imperative, ''"to capture"'' to ''"capture!"''. This album was first published in

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in the 80s (titled as ''Å fange Spiralis'' in Norway, ''Jag Marsupilami'' in

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, and ''Spirillen'' in

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References

Franquin publications in ''Spirou''
BDoubliées ;Footnotes

External links

Marsupilami official site albums

Franquin site Marsupilami albums
2002 graphic novels Comics by André Franquin Spirou et Fantasio albums Works originally published in Spirou (magazine) Marsupilami {{FrancoBelgian-comics-stub