Format Bande Dessinée Creator(s) André Franquin
Jidéhem Genre Franco-Belgian comics Publisher Dupuis | Main character(s) Starter
Pipette Writer Jidéhem Artist Jidéhem | |
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Similar Dupuis, Violine, Sibylline, Isabelle, Plunk | ||
Starter is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by André Franquin (drawings) and Jidéhem (drawings and scripts) in Spirou.
In 1952, Jacques Wauters create Starter, a column dedicated to automobiles, in Spirou.
In 1956. André Franquin, doing illustration for this columns, draw a little mechanic character, named Starter'.
In 1957, overloaded with work, André Franquin leave illustration of the automobile's column to Jidéhem; he shows a marked talent for mechanical drawing. Thereafter, Jidéhem do both drawings and text for the automobile's column until 1978. Starter presents more than 700 tests and reports with aesthetic ot technical drawings.
First only textual, Starter experience his own adventures in comics, which become integrated into Sophie series continuing to present the automobile's column in Spirou.
Since, several books have been published picking up some automobile tests and drawings from the Starter Columns.