Spirou in the turmoil of the Shoah

Sunday 18 June 2017 at 2:30 PM
Couverture de l’album « Le Spirou de Yann et Schwartz » Le groom vert-de-gris. Yann, Schwartz © Dupuis

Cover of the album 'Le Spirou de Yann et Schwartz' Le Groom verdigris. Yann, Schwartz © Dupuis

This meeting is preceded by the presentation of a section dedicated to Spirou in the exhibition "Shoah and comics": meet at 2 PM at the reception of the Memorial.

The next album of Spirou, to be released in 2018, will have the Shoah as its central theme. This is not the first time that an adventure of the hero in the groom costume has taken place under the Occupation. But it is a recent evocation. When do the Jews appear for the first time in the universe of Spirou? How is the Shoah represented there?

Couverture de l’album « Le Spirou d'Émile Bravo » Le Journal d’un ingénu. Bravo © Dupuis

Cover of the album 'Le Spirou d'Émile Bravo' Le Journal d'un ingénu. Bravo © Dupuis

Couverture de La Véritable Histoire de Spirou par Christelle et Bertrand Pissavy-Yvernault. © Dupuis 2017

The True Story of Spirou by Christelle and Bertrand Pissavy-Yvernault. © Dupuis 2017

In the presence of Schwartz, illustrator of the Groom vert-de-gris, an adventure by Spirou and Fantasio, Émile Bravo, author of Spirou: Le Journal d'un ingénu, and Christelle Pissavy-Yvernault, author specializing in the history of the newspaper Spirou.

Hosted by Patrick Gaumer, writer, author of the World Dictionary of Comics.

PRICES: 5€/3€