Willy and Wanda / Spike and Suzy by Willy Vandersteen and Paul Geerts.
Requirements: CBR Reader, 374 MB.
Overview: Spike and Suzy, the British title for Suske en Wiske in Dutch, is a comics series created by the Belgian comics author Willy Vandersteen. The strip has been published as Bob et Bobette in French and Willy and Wanda in the U.S. It was first published in De Nieuwe Standaard in 1945 and soon became popular. Although not in its earlier form, the strip adapted to the Ligne claire style pioneered by Hergé. This change took place when the strip became serialised in Hergé’s comics magazine Tintin from 1948 to 1959.
- The books revolve around the adventures of the eponymous Willy and Wanda (or Spike and Suzy), two children (pre-adolescent or adolescent depending on the album), along with their friends and family. The stories combine elements of comedy, fantasy and science fiction, such as talking animals, time travel and ghosts. The strip still runs daily in De Standaard, and new books continue to be published: as of 2008, 300 books have been published. While they remain popular among readers from the Netherlands, their popularity in Belgium has plummeted since the mid-1990s.
Genre: Comics, Adventures, All Ages, Fantasy, Humour.
Willy and Wanda / Spike and Suzy
- Willy Vandersteen author, artist, pencils, writer
Paul Geerts artist, pencils
Published by De Nieuwe Standaard, Tintin, 1946-2008.
- Willy Vandersteen created Suske en Wiske, beginning publication in De Nieuwe Standaard on March 30, 1945. To Vandersteen’s disappointment the editor had renamed the strip’s first chapter Rikki en Wiske. The following story was titled De avonturen van Suske en Wiske – Op het eiland Amoras and no longer featured Rikki. After a few years of publication in several newspapers, Vandersteen was approached by Hergé, intent to improve sales of the Dutch language Kuifje, who wanted Suske and Wiske for his publications rebuilt in the Ligne claire style. Vandersteen made the adaptation and Suske en Wiske first appeared in Kuifje and Belgian Tintin on September 16, 1948 with the story titled Het Spaanse spook and Le Fantôme Espagnol in the two languages. In all 8 stories ran until it ended in April 1959, making up the material collected in The Blue Series.
Vandersteen established Studio Vandersteen in 1952 to manage his expanded activities. To have time for other series such as De Rode Ridder (The Red Knight) and Tijl Uilenspiegel, he gave Paul Geerts the job of creating new albums of Suske en Wiske in 1968. Geerts did this until 2001, when he gave this task to Marc Verhaegen. From 2005 on, a team of writers and cartoonists makes the new series, led by Luc Morjeau. These authors are helped by Studio Vandersteen.
The books are generally divided into two groups – The Red Series, and The Blue series. The Red Series contains the vast majority of the books, and is so called because all of the books in this series have a red coloured cover. There are only a few books in the blue series, and they are so called because of their blue cover. The blue series encompasses all those originally published in Tintin and Kuifje. The Red series is everything published before or after.
In the earliest stories, Willy Vandersteen used fictional countries like "Chokowakije" ("Chocolaslovakia") and "Amoras" (a tropical island, "Hoboken" in the English language version). He dropped the use of those after a few stories, although some later stories revisit Amoras.
Most of the current adventures of Spike and Suzy happen in real countries all over the world, with Belgium (their home country) and the Netherlands as main focus for many stories.
While in the early stories large distances were usually traveled using the fictitious Gyronef, an experimental helicopter devised by professor Barabas, starting from the 1960s all air travel is provided by the non-fictional Dutch national airline KLM, making it an early and prominent example of product placement in European comics. Vandersteen chose KLM over the former Belgian national airline SABENA because of his friendship with Ron Winderink, PR manager at KLM.
Download Instructions:
http://festyy.com/wLq8kf — Spike and Suzy–Sagarmatha
http://festyy.com/wLq8kv — Spike and Suzy–The Forgotten Valley (1981)
http://festyy.com/wLq8kE — Spike and Suzy–The Loch Ness Mystery (2000)
http://festyy.com/wLq8kO — Spike and Suzy–The Mellow Marmots (1995)
http://festyy.com/wLq8kG — Spike and Suzy–The Silly Marrow (1972)
http://festyy.com/wLq8k1 — Spike and Suzy–The Stone Breads (1984)
http://festyy.com/wLq8le — Willy and Wanda 01 An Island Called Hoboken (1976)
http://festyy.com/wLq8lo — Willy and Wanda 11 The Iron Flowerpotters (1977)
- Mirror:
- http://www.gboxes.com/iv8k0pv1dje8 — Spike and Suzy–Sagarmatha
http://festyy.com/wLq8lg — Spike and Suzy–The Forgotten Valley (1981)
http://festyy.com/wLq8lk — Spike and Suzy–The Loch Ness Mystery (2000)
http://festyy.com/wLq8lQ — Spike and Suzy–The Mellow Marmots (1995)
http://festyy.com/wLq8lR — Spike and Suzy–The Silly Marrow (1972)
http://festyy.com/wLq8lU — Spike and Suzy–The Stone Breads (1984)
http://festyy.com/wLq8lN — Willy and Wanda 01 An Island Called Hoboken (1976)
http://festyy.com/wLq8l5 — Willy and Wanda 11 The Iron Flowerpotters (1977)
