Le nid des Marsupilamis [SEP] series
Le nid des Marsupilamis
Le nid des Marsupilamis, written and drawn by Franquin, is the twelfth album of the "Spirou et Fantasio" series. The title story, and another, "La foire aux gangsters", were serialised in "Spirou" magazine before the release in a hardcover album in 1960.
Story.
In "The Nest of the Marsupilamis", Seccotine invites Spirou and Fantasio to a screening of her new documentary film, revealing what she has been doing since last seen in Palombia (in
a life of its own was the Marsupilami, a fictional monkey-like creature with a tremendously long prehensile tail. The Marsupilami appears in the majority of the Franquin stories, starting in 1952 with "Spirou et les héritiers". In the series, it is adopted by the duo and follows them everywhere they go. Marsupilamis in the wild take centre stage briefly in "Le nid des Marsupilamis" (1957) which presents Seccotine's documentary featuring a family in their natural habitat, the jungles of the fictitious South American state