Quick & Flupke
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Quick & Flupke (Quick et Flupke in French and Quick 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 annoyance with their parents and the police.
[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 is not by Herge, but by Johan de Moor, the son of Herge's assistant Bob de Moor.
[edit] 1. Haute tension [September 1985] — [High Tension]
[edit] 2. Jeux interdits [September 1985] — [Double Trouble]
The gags included in this volume are:
Tournament, Flying, Happy Easter, Dangerous Dog, The Swing, Everyone Gets a Turn, Magic, Drama, Posting of Notices Prohibited, Officer No. 15 Pulls a Prank, Directions, Traffic, Haute Couture, Unbreakable, Bravery, Oil-Based Paint, Forbidden Games, William Tell, Same Reasons, Dodging the Fare, The Soapbox, Caution, and Quick the Electrician.
[edit] 3. Tout va bien [September 1985] — [Two of a Kind]
The gags included in this volume are:
Manners, How to Build a Glider, Happy Christmas, Mad Dog, A Present for Aunt Mary, Handyman, What Weather!, Having the Last Word, Three of a Kind, Heart of Gold, Rope Trick, Lucky Strike, All or Nothing, Honesty, Hot Stuff, Horror Story, Quick at the Wheel, Acrobatics, Right as Rain, Natural Disaster, Big Mouth, Musical Ear, and A Helping Hand.
[edit] 4. Toutes voiles dehors [1986] — [Full Sail]
The gags included in this volume are:
Naval Program, An Eye for an Eye, The Dog That Came Back, Locution, Back to School, Problem, Dowsing, Happy Easter!, Happy New Year!, A Picturesque Spot, Knowing How to Light a Fire, Demonstrative, A Good Picture, Lost in the Night, A Record, Penalty, Barely Believable, The Follies, Demand, The Tunnel, Winter Sports, New Year, and Peaceful Idleness.
[edit] 5. Chacun son tour [1986] — [It's Your Turn]
The gags included in this volume are:
Who Wants This Glove?, At the Optician’s, Lullaby, Evangelical Love, The Dangers of Tobacco, The Little Genius, Angling, Sleeplessness, Make a Wish, Pointless Search, Music to Calm the Nerves, The Trials and Tribulations of Officer 15 (2), Speeding Police, Flupke the Goalkeeper, Crosswords, Broadcasting, The Rara Avis, The Rescuers, Flupke on Display, Camp at Night, Acrobatics, Foolish Games, and Vernal Poem.
[edit] 6. Pas de quartier [January 1987] — [Without Mercy]
The gags included in this volume are:
A Bit of History, Quick Out West, Be Kind to Animals, Swimming, Quick the Golf Pro, Horseriding, Windstorm, A Nice Surprise, Sports, Essay, Skating, Light Headed, Cleaning Day, Circus Games, A Nice “Shot”, Rescue, Automatic Door Closer, A Good Line of Work, A Beautiful-Target, Payback, Camping (1), (2), and (3).
[edit] 7. Pardon Madame [January 1987] — [Excuse Me Ma'am]
The gags included in this volume are:
If I Had a Million, Sad Story, Winning Ticket, The Road of Virtue, The Continuing Business, Hunting Story, The Child Prodigy, Nature’s Response…, Everything’s Fine, Reform, Gratitude, It’s Your Turn, Vendetta, Faith in Publicity, Afraid of Germs, Thunderstorm, Simple Question, Eternal Youth, A Great Traveler, Caution, Bad Encounter, Meteorology, The Great Resource, and The Punished Artist.
[edit] 8. Vive le progrès [September 1987] — [Long Live Progress]
The gags included in this volume are:
Back to School, Valve Painting, Ostrich Eggs, Return to the Soil, Higher Education, The Mosquito, Serious Customers, Obsession, Among Artists, Deafness, Happy Easter, Surplus Value, Natural Bronzing, Swaps, Long Live Vacations, Clarification, Progress, Traffic, Break-in, The Example, About-Face, No Deal, and Resolution.
[edit] 9. Catastrophe [January 1988] — [Catastrophe]
The gags included in this volume are:
Vocation, No! Carnival is Not Dead!, There’s a Butterfly, and Then There’s a Butterfly, The Alarm, The World As Flupke Would Like It (1), (2), & (3), The Remedy, Interview, He Wanted a Disaster, Mix Up, Upper-Style Horsemanship, An Inner Man, Apropos, The Art of Diving, Spiritualism, The Etruscan Vase, Secret Police, The Hiccup, Quick Builds a Wireless System, Pilfering, The Pancakes, and Patient Flupke.
[edit] 10. Farces et attrapes [January 1989] — [Pranks and Jokes]
The gags included in this volume are:
Gardening, Sharpshooter, Heat, A Breakdown, Quick the Mechanic, Quick the Cabinetmaker, Well-Endorsed, House Chores, Simple Loan, Ball, Flytrap, Trapeze, Flupke the Model Maker, Constructions, A Masterstroke, Barely Believable, You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, The Rocket, The Scrupulous Artist, The Prey, For Christmas, Temptation, and Beekeeping.
[edit] 11. Coups de bluff [January 1990] — [Bluffmasters]
The gags included in this volume are:
Boating, Technicality, Intuition, The Cat and the Mouse, Quick’s Toothache, Championship, Time is Money, Pedestrian Crossing, Cruelty, At Last the Sun, Bluff, Pastoral, Superstition, Perfumery, Be Kind to Animals!, Cold Shower, The Look-Alike, Tire Story, Suspicions, Harassments, World Record, Stability, Logic, and Experience.
[edit] 12. Attachez vos ceintures [January 1991] — [Fasten Your Seat Belt]
The gags included in this volume are:
Real Cleaning, A Poor Woman, Seascape, Quick Learns Boxing, Music to Calm the Nerves, Pacifism, The Unbeatable, Advertisement, Method of Work, Quick the Clockmaker, Soccer, At the Auto Show, Crazy Story, A Serious Affair, Argumentativeness, Music-Mad Quick, So Do It, Innocence, Children’s Rights, The Recipe, Yo-Yo, Metamorphoses, and Legless Cripple Story.
[edit] Cameos in Tintin
Quick & Flupke made short appearances in The Adventures of Tintin books:
- They are among the crowd seeing Tintin off in the first panel of Tintin in the Congo, in both the 1931 and 1946 editions.
- In 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 features a pair of boys who play a trick on Captain Haddock. They are made to look very similar to Quick and Flupke though the resemblance is minor given that the event takes place in La Rochelle in France and not an inland city in Belgium.
- Quick & Flupke also appear on the back cover of some book editions of the Adventures of Tintin. They are about to fire a slingshot at Captain Haddock and/or his bottle of whisky.
[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 direct translations of strips in the French volumes Jeux Interdits and Tout va Bien. The English edition comics are all coloured, and named Double Trouble and Two of a Kind.
In 2007, it was announced that the series would be released in India published in the English language.
In January 2008, Euro Books India released English translations of all the 11 titles that were originally written by Herge.
Forbidden Games
Everything's Fine
Full Sail
It's Your Turn
Without Mercy
Excuse Me Ma'am
Long Live Progress
Catastrophe
Pranks and Jokes
Bluffmasters
Fasten Your Seat Belt
[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
- Zipi y Zape
[edit] External links
- HergeandTintin.tk - see 'Quick and Flupke' section
- TINTIN Online.tk - see the Other Characters section
