User:Piotr Verrezen/sandbox/Marsupilami

Marsupilami new article content ... Marsupilami is a comic book telling the story of a supernatural animal of the same name ( distinct from the stories of Spirou et Fantasio in wich the Marsupilami is very present). It is edited by Marsu Productions and drawn by Batem. The Marsupilami is an animal between the monkey and the cheetah, he lives in Palombia with his family. He is very sentimental and, with his tail, he helps people (or other animals) in trouble, victims of injustice, or he saves himself from predators that are mostly humans or cheetah... Background history Birth and progress under Franquin (1987-1996) The series is initiated in 1987 by Franquin spurred on by Jean-François Moyersoen, an entrepreneur that likes his work. The author sells him the rights for the character in order to get him used in his own series, in his own publishing company called Marsu Productions. The family of wild Marsupilami was filmed by Seccotine in "Le Nid des Marsupilamis" (Marsupilamis' nest) and is the center of the comic. Marsupilami is a comic that comes from the other comic Spirou et Fantasio. On that occasion, Franquin works again with Greg who writes a scenario for him, as he is in charge of the drawing, helped by a young assistant working in the company that controls the rights of the products from Dupuis, who's nickname is Batem. Greg wrote the scenario for the second album too, then Yann will be chosen (by Franquin) to replace him from the third album. It is also from this album that Franquin took a step back from the comic, considering that Batem, who he trained, was mature enough to handle graphism. At this point, he will simply become a director and suggest ideas for the scenario and organize the work between the two associates. For this comic, he uses some characters created before for some stories, as the Marsupilami's hunter, "Bring M. Backalive", that appeared for the first time in 1978 in Gaston et le Marsupilami, an album done with regrets many years before, composed by unpublished drawings and short stories from Spirou. Another character that Franquin used again in this comic is clown Noé, introduced in the album called "Bravo les Brothers". After Franquin (1996) In 1996 the 10th album is published, the first one Franquin didn't supervised and without Yann's writing. Spurred on by the publisher, the comic is changing: in the stories, the Marsupilami is getting out of the Palombian forest that was the only place until 1996, and some human characters are appearing. The duo in charge of the writing, Éric Adam and Xavier Fauche, signed only two albums before getting out of the project. Batem wrote the story of the 12th album by himself, called "trafic à Jollywood", published in 1998. The next two album, called "Le Défilé du jaguar" and "Un fils en or", published respectevely in 1999 and 2000, are the adapted versions of the cartoons transmitted at the same period and are characterized by a lot of human characters too. Nevertheless, Batem keeps on controlling the disign continuity of the work. Between 2001 and 2005, Dugomier, co-creator of Muriel et Boulon, writes the stories for four album. The first two in the universe of a circus and composed only with one page gags. In the next two album on the other hand, the Marsupilami is back in the palombian forest. From 2006, Stéphane Colman, cartoonist of Billy the Cat, became the official regular scriptwriter. With Colman's writing, stories are back in the Palombian jungle and become especially bucolic and ecologist, in the spirit of the first opuses supervised by Franquin. The mythology is improved by revealing that, for example in the 27th album called "Coeur d'étoile", the male adult Marsupilami is the brother of Spirou and Fantasio's companion.