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In November 1981, Yves Chaland received a telephone call from the editor of “Spirou” in which it was proposed that he resume “Spirou et Fantasio.” “I thought about it” the creator of “Jeune Albert” later confided, “and I accepted, not so as to be a slave to this character all my life, but just to do my own little thing as I would conceive it, in my own way, without any particular desire to do a standard commercial product in 44 pages, etc.” This decision would give rise to “Coeurs d’acier”, a succession of images that, in the manner of the works of Hergé, Jacobs and Franquin, could be recreated as screen-prints

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