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Monday, October 25, 2010

The Ducks Who Thought They Were Spirou And Fantasio

This rough cover concept drawing is for something I plan to do one day. Not in terms of a full length comic album nor a graphic novel but in a form of a short story or fun homage to the Franco-Belgian Spirou and Fantasio comics I grew up with. Especially the ones by André Franquin. Apropos Franquin, his collection of black comedy comics - Idées noires (Dark Thoughts) - is, to me, one of those all time "must haves".


The iron boat was quite inspired by those streamline beauties: (BTW, Hans Bacher gave me the idea of using irons as reference material)

Photos via DRB and Streamline Irons

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8 comments:

  1. Ahmed Al HasnawiMonday, October 25, 2010

    I'm very excitement to see this image complete, Satzinger your work is great, I'm really love your style.

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  2. DerekTuesday, October 26, 2010

    This one has great composition! Love it!

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  3. AnonymousTuesday, October 26, 2010

    Looks great, bring it on! I don't know the two characters you mentioned, I'll have to look them up. It looks like the sort of adventure stuff I would enjoy. How was the Bacher week? (Sounds awesome).

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  4. Florian SatzingerTuesday, October 26, 2010

    Al, cheers for the compliment! :)

    Derek! :) Glad to hear that, thanks!

    Arjan! The Spirou et Fantasio comics by André Franquin are pure gold with a wonderful portion of adventure and futurism, in the fashion of James Bond meets Indiana Jones. BTW, the Bacher week was a great success, he's a wonderful, wonderful teacher and a warm and fine person.

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  5. aintshakespeareWednesday, October 27, 2010

    Oh my god, I love that you put a iron as a source of inspiration! That is too cool.

    I love the busy jumble of these pictures. I look forward to seeing cleaned and colored versions.

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  6. Olivier LadeuixWednesday, October 27, 2010

    I traveled to France with "Z for Zorglub" in my bag and just bought an other Spirou album and his bibliography this week end ;-)

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  7. Florian SatzingerWednesday, October 27, 2010

    Michael! Hahaha, right, Hans Bacher came up with this in one of his lectures, two weeks ago.

    Hi Olivier! Sound familiar to me ;) Zorgulb and his air rides are BTW one of those things which made me a bit addicted to draw all kinds of vehicles and stuff as a kid. Well, actually still am... :)

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  8. Jose LuisMonday, November 01, 2010

    So great! Would be fantastic a comic book with this ducky-crazy Spirou and friends version (sort of what if Cavazzano meets Franquin)!
    Best reggards, nice work you'r doing!
    JL Munuera

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