Quick & Flupke
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Quick & Flupke (Quick et Flupke in French and Kwik en Flupke in Dutch) is a comic book series by Hergé (famous for The Adventures of Tintin) about two street urchins in Brussels named Quick and Flupke. The two boys unintentionally cause trouble, leading to agro with their parents and the police.
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[edit] History
The series was published in black and white in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième starting in January 1930. The strips continued until 1940 (although they were republished in the Tintin magazine, conceived by Raymond Leblanc, this time coloured by Studios Herge).
Hergé eventually abandoned the series in order to spend more time on The Adventures of Tintin, his more famous comic series. After Hergé's death, the books were coloured by the Studios Hergé and re-issued by the publishing house Casterman in 12 volumes, between 1985 and 1991.
[edit] List of Volumes
Unlike Herge's other series' there is no real chronological order to the books, though often the order that they were published in is used. The first book, Haute Tension isn't by Herge, but by Johan de Moor, the son of Herge's assistant Bob de Moor.
- Haute tension (September 1985)
- Jeux interdits (September 1985)
- Tout va bien (September 1985)
- Toutes voiles dehors (1986)
- Chacun son tour (1986)
- Pas de quartier (January 1987)
- Pardon, Madame (January 1987)
- Vive le progrès (September 1987)
- Catastrophe (January 1988)
- Farces et attrapes (January 1989)
- Coups de bluff (January 1990)
- Attachez vos ceintures (January 1991)
In The Adventures of Tintin book The Shooting Star, Quick and Flupke can be seen running towards the docks as the expedition is about to set off. The Seven Crystal Balls also features two street urchins in a short sequence, looking very similar to Quick and Flupke.
[edit] English Translations
The English version of Quick & Flupke was produced in the early-1990s, and consisted of only two books, published by Mammoth Publishing. The books were translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner. The text in the English volumes is not lettered in the same way as other Hergé books in English. The two English volumes are collections of strips that the editors feel like are the best Quick & Flupke comics. The English edition comics are all coloured, and named 'Double Trouble' and 'Two of a Kind'.
[edit] Television Series
In the 1980s, the books were made into a television series, the creation of which was supervised by Studios Hergé. It was recently re-issued on Multi-regional DVD in France under 3 titles - 'Coups de Bluff, Tout va Bien and Jeux Interdits.
[edit] See also
- Hergé
- Hergé Foundation
- The Adventures of Tintin
- Jo, Zette and Jocko
- Franco-Belgian comics
- Ligne claire
[edit] External links
- HergeandTintin.tk - see 'Quick and Flupke' section
- TINTIN Online.tk - see the Other Characters section
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