Marsu Productions

Marsu Productions, or simply Marsu, is a publishing house and licensing and merchandising company located in Monaco, managing Franco-Belgian comics characters and copyright concerns, chiefly from the comics universe of André Franquin. The name Marsu refers to one of Franquin's best known characters the Marsupilami, but the company also handles the character universes of Gaston Lagaffe, Le Petit Noël, Les Monstres, as well as François Walthéry's Natacha and Le P'tit bout d'chique, and Léonid et Spoutnika by Yann and Philippe Bercovici among others.

Franquin, who had previously worked for the publishing house Dupuis, decided to leave his company and start his own in 1987. He brought along his own creations Marsupilami and Gaston Lagaffe, and the company soon started launching a series of Marsupilami albums continuing publication of the character Franquin had created in 1952,^[1] while working on the series Spirou et Fantasio for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou. Since Spirou and Fantasio weren't Franquin's own creations, the publisher Dupuis retained the rights to the characters. Several of the characters under Marsu management are however closely associated with this series, and Marsupilami, Gaston Lagaffe, and Le Petit Noël are to varying degrees spin-off series.

The first publication, La Queue du Marsupilami in 1987 with art by Batem and stories by Greg, launched its new series, which by 2007 had passed 20 issues. Natacha made the switch from Dupuis to Marsu in 1989 with the album Cauchemirage, and ended serial production in Spirou.^[2] In 1992, Franquin also added worldwide rights of Gaston Lagaffe to Marsu, a series he also created for Spirou.^[1] The Marsupilami album numbered 0, Capturez un Marsupilami, the only album featuring Franquin's seminal stories, was published in 2002, some time after Franquin's death in 1997.

In 2013, the publisher was bought up by its competitor Dupuis.

References

1 2 Neuvieme-art.com. "Marsu Productions" (in French).
↑ BDoubliées. "Natacha" (in French).

External links

Marsu Productions official page (in French)
Franquin official page (in French)

André Franquin
Series	Spirou et Fantasio Gaston Lagaffe Marsupilami Idées noires Le Petit Noël Modeste et Pompon Isabelle
Spirou et Fantasio characters	Fantasio Gaston Lagaffe Marsupilami Le Petit Noël Seccotine Spip Spirou Zantafio Zorglub
Spirou and Fantasio albums	Spirou et Fantasio Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio Il y a un sorcier à Champignac Les chapeaux noirs Spirou et les héritiers Les voleurs du Marsupilami La corne de rhinocéros Le dictateur et le champignon La mauvaise tête Le repaire de la murène Les pirates du silence Le gorille a bonne mine Le nid des Marsupilamis Le voyageur du Mésozoïque Le prisonnier du Bouddha Z comme Zorglub L'ombre du Z Spirou et les hommes-bulles QRN sur Bretzelburg Panade à Champignac Tembo Tabou
Gaston Lagaffe albums	Gaffes et gadgets Gala de gaffes à gogo Le bureau des gaffes en gros Gare aux gaffes du gars gonflé En direct de la gaffe Le lourd passé de Lagaffe Des gaffes et des dégâts Un gaffeur sachant gaffer Lagaffe nous gâte Le cas Lagaffe Le géant de la gaffe Gaffes, bévues et boulettes Le gang des gaffeurs Lagaffe mérite des baffes La saga des gaffes Gaffe à Lagaffe ! Gaston 19
Marsupilami albums	Capturez un Marsupilami La Queue du Marsupilami
Other albums	Idées noires
Collaborators	Delporte Jidéhem Greg Goscinny Roba
Publishing houses	Dupuis Marsu Productions
Magazines	Spirou Tintin
Other	Champignac Palombia

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