L'Ankou [SEP] series
L'Ankou
L'Ankou, written and drawn by Fournier, is the twenty-seventh album of the "Spirou et Fantasio" series, and the author's seventh, following the Spirou retirement of André Franquin. The story was initially serialised in "Spirou" magazine, before it was released as a hardcover album in 1977.
Story.
In "L'Ankou", Ororéa invites Spirou and Fantasio to join her at a congress of magicians in Brittany. When they arrive, they meet strange L'Ankou, who objects to the presence
series, which saw Spirou evolve into a more modern character. Where Franquin's stories tended to be politically neutral (in his later works, notably "Idées noires", he would champion pacifist and environmental views), Fournier's stint on Spirou addressed such hot topics (for the 1970s) as nuclear energy ("L'Ankou"), drug-funded dictatorships ("Kodo le tyran") and Duvalier-style repression ("Tora Torapa").
Fournier introduced some new characters such as Ororéa, a beautiful