3 Dezember 2008 - Comic #252

"A great debate rages (there are already casualties) on the Spirou forum:
www.spirou.com / mailboxe
If you want to participate ...

Click on the image!"

In the original post, clicking on the image led you to the Spirou magazine forum. That forum has been closed though.

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3686 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 48-49. The single panels are from page 52 & 53.

Original post: Boulet veut me péter la gueule !

28 Oktober 2008 - Comic #250

"Because of an agreement with Dupuis, I can not pre-publish more.

  Here are some tips where to read more:

  Wait for the book, buy the magazine at a newspaper stand or
  subscribe.

  Pages 13 and 14: Number 3682 (5 November).
  Pages 15 and 16: Number 3683 (12 November).
  Pages 17 and 18: Number of 3684 (19 November).
  Pages 19 to 20: Number of 3685 (26 November).
  Pages 21-24 (+ cover): Number 3686 (3 December).

  And then, two pages per week until number 3696  (11 February 2009)"

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3682 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 30-31.

Original post: MAKI 13/13

21 Oktober 2008 - Comic #249

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3678 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 27-29.

Original post: MAKI 12/13

20 Oktober 2008 - Comic #248

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3678 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 25-27.

Original post: MAKI 11/13

16 Oktober 2008 - Comic #247

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3678 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 23-24.

Original post: MAKI 10/13

15 Oktober 2008 - Comic #246

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3678 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 21-22.

Original post: MAKI 09/13

15 Oktober 2008 - Comic #245

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3673 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 19-20.

Original post: MAKI 08/13

14 Oktober 2008 - Comic #244

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3673 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 17-18.

Original post: MAKI 07/13

13 Oktober 2008 - Comic #243

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3673 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 15-17.

Original post: MAKI 06/13

12 Oktober 2008 - Comic #242

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3673 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 13-14.

Original post: MAKI 05/13

10 Oktober 2008 - Comic #241

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3668 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 11-12.

Original post: MAKI 04/13

9 Oktober 2008 - Comic #240

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3668 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 8-10.

Original post: MAKI 03/13

8 Oktober 2008 - Comic #239

This was first published in Spirou magazine #3668 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 7-8.

Original post: MAKI 02/13

8 Oktober 2008 - Comic #238

For completion's sake, here's the b&w version of the Maki comic I posted about a week ago.

Original post: MAKI 01/13

23 September 2008 - Comic #236

"(To be continued...)

Some details for those of you who want to read the story in Spirou magazine:

Page 1-4: #3668, 30 July.

Page 5-8: #3673, 3 September.

Page 9-12: #3678, 8 October.

Page 13 and 14: #3682, 5 November.

Page 15 and 16: #3683, 12 November.

Page 17 and 18: #3684, 19 November.

Page 19-20: #3685, 26 November.

Page 21-24 (+ cover): #3686, 3 December.

And then, two pages each week until the last issue:

#3696, 11 February 2009.

And the book in April?!"

This is another page of the first Maki comic. The series is called "Un cœur de lémurien" ("A lemur's heart"). It was first published in Spirou magazine and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 43-45.

Original post: Et toujours à suivre, dans le journal de Spirou... (et un jour en album)

20 June 2008 - Comic #231

"(to be continued in Spirou magazine)"

This is the first page of the first Maki comic. The series is called "Un cœur de lémurien" ("A lemur's heart"). It was first published in Spirou magazine #3668 and later appeared in Tarrin's book Le parcours d'un Puceau on page 5-6.

Original post: Maki

Look what I found in the mail today...

I just found this in my mailbox:

It's Fabrice Tarrin's new book that was published yesterday. I pre-ordered it on amazon.fr, but I'm still surprised it got here that fast.

The book contains the "Un cœur de lémurien" series that was published in Spirou magazine #3668, #3673, #3678 and #3682-#3696 from mid-2008 to early 2009.

Size-wise the book is right in the middle between Tarrin's Maki books and his Lemurien book.

The Maki books published by Dupuis have about the same size as an issue of Spirou magazine, so the pages in the magazine and the books look the same.

However, since the new book is smaller, what used to be one page in Spirou magazine is now spread over two pages, making the book twice as thick as the others with 90 pages of comics in total.

Left: Spirou magazine; Right: the book

Even though the story is fictional, if you've been following this blog for a while, you'll recognize a lot of the characters from his biographical Lemurien comics:

Fred and Cyril (who's called "Édouard" in the book)

Tarrin's mom

Cyril's parents

Lolita and Tarrin's best friend

Their personalities seem to be heavily influenced by their RL counterparts: "Édouard" is the somewhat crazy friend who likes to act cool. The Dalmatian that's based on Tarrin's friend Fred Neidhardt is this laid-back guy who sometimes unknowingly creates chaos and so on. There's even Madame Hamdouni who used to be Tarrin's landlord (or something like that) back when he was still living in Paris.

And that's what I like so much about Tarrin's stories; that all the characters are based on people he knows IRL.

Story-wise it seems to differ a bit from what was published in Spirou magazine. So far I've only flipped through it and I have yet to read the whole book, but at least the ending seems to be different. There are pages I haven't seen before and there are also some missing that I've seen in Spirou (like the New Year's Eve party for example).

I'll write a more detailed entry about the plot once I've read the whole book.

If anyone is interested in purchasing it, here are the details:

Le Parcours d'un puceau

by Fabrice Tarrin

Price: 13.90€

ISBN-10: 274930671X

ISBN-13: 978-2749306711