Casterman is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics, specializing in

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and

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. The company is based in

Tournai Tournai ( , ; ; ; , sometimes Anglicisation (linguistics), anglicised in older sources as "Tournay") is a city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Hainaut Province, Province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies by ...

, 90 kilometres southwest of the centre of

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, Belgium.

History

The company was founded in 1780 by Donat-Joseph Casterman, an editor and bookseller originally from

.Bocquet, José-Louis, and Fromental, Jean-Luc. ''The Adventures of Hergé'' (Drawn and Quarterly, 2011). Casterman was originally a printing company and

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. In 1934, Casterman took over the ''

Le Petit Vingtième ''Le Petit Vingtième'' (, ''The Little Twentieth'') was the weekly youth supplement to the Belgium, Belgian newspaper ''Le Vingtième Siècle'' ("The Twentieth Century") from 1928 to 1940. The comics series ''The Adventures of Tintin'' first ap ...

'' editions for the publication of the albums of ''

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'', from the fourth album of the series, '' Cigars of the Pharaoh''. From 1942, Casterman published reworked versions and colored versions of the previous Tintin albums. Strengthened by the success of

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's comics, shortly after, Casterman proposed new series with new authors such as Jacques Martin, François Craenhals and C. & V. Hansen. From 1954 on, Casterman published children's books, as well, including the successful '' Martine'' books by Marcel Marlier and the Cadet- Rama books written by Alain Gree (units Achille et Bergamote and Petit Tom). Keen to appeal to a more mature market, Casterman decided in 1973 to publish the first albums of '' Corto Maltese'' by the

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author Hugo Pratt. Furthermore, in 1978, Casterman established its monthly magazine '' A Suivre'', which was to influence the comics revival of the 1980s. Casterman ceased the publication of ''A Suivre'' in 1997. Casterman is now part of Groupe Flammarion.Casterman Printing à Tournai : 5 travailleurs repris par un groupe néerlandais
''Rtbf.be'', 1^er décembre 2016. Casterman's

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series are published under the imprint Sakka.

Main publications

Comics series

This is a selected list of comics series, ordered by year of first publication by Casterman, with main authors given. A few series were also continued or temporarily taken over by other artists and writers. *1929: ''

'' by

*1930: '' Quick & Flupke'' by

*1934: '' Popol Out West'' by

*1949: '' The Adventures of Alix'' by Jacques Martin *1952: '' The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko'' by

*1958: ''

Rasmus Klump ''Rasmus Klump'' (translates to ''Rasmus Lump'' or ''Erasmus Lump'') is a Danish comic strip series for children created in 1951 by the Danish wife-and-husband team Carla and Vilhelm Hansen. The series was translated into a number of foreign lan ...

'' by Carla and Vilhelm Hansen *1973: '' Yakari'' by

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and Derib, Joris Chamblain *1975: '' Corto Maltese'' by Hugo Pratt *1976: ''

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec ''The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec'' () is a gaslamp fantasy comic book series first appearing in 1976 written and illustrated by French comics artist Jacques Tardi and published in ''album'' format by Belgian publisher Caster ...

'' by Jacques Tardi *1978: '' Inspector Canardo'' Benoît Sokal *1983: ''

Le Chat ''Le Chat'' (''Le Cat'' in English-language editions) is a Belgian comic strip, created by Philippe Geluck. Foremost published daily in the newspaper '' Le Soir'' from March 22, 1983, until March 23, 2013, it is since issued directly as complete ...

'' by Philippe Geluck *1986: '' Chninkel'' by Jean Van Hamme and

Grzegorz Rosiński Grzegorz Rosiński (Polish: ; born 3 August 1941) is a Polish comic book artist, illustrator and painter. He is best known for providing the artwork for the series '' Thorgal''. His other notable work includes art drawn in the '' Hans'' and '' C ...

Books series

*1954: '' Martine'' by Marcel Marlier and Gilbert Delahaye *2004: ''

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'' by Robert Muchamore *2010: '' Henderson's Boys'' by Robert Muchamore

Magazines

*1975: '' Fluide Glacial'' *1978: '' À Suivre'' *2003: ''Bang !'' *2016: ''Pandora''

References

External links

* Book publishing companies of Belgium Comic book publishing companies of Belgium The Adventures of Tintin Belgian brands Companies established in 1780 Publishing companies established in the 1780s Tournai Companies based in Hainaut (province) {{comics-company-stub