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Clifton, Intégrale #1
Clifton Arkiverne 1
Det landlige England, et lille hus og Miss Partridges små, lækre retter: Tidligere oberst i MI5 Harold Wilberforce Cliftons otium er lige til at holde ud ... Men ud over at være en fremragende spion, som resten af verden misunder det perfide Albion, er Clifton også Syngende Hejre, leder af spejdertroppen "Altid Beredt", og klar til at hjælpe sin næste! Også selv om denne næste virkelig er kommet ud, hvor han ikke kan bunde. Men et løfte er et løfte, ikke sandt? I Englands og Spejderbevægelsens navn helmer Clifton aldrig, før han har overbevist banditter af enhver art om, at "forbrydelse betaler sig ikke!"
CLIFTON ARKIVERNE er den ultimative og kronologiske udgivelse af serien om Oberst Clifton i flotte hardcover-bøger! Bind 1 indeholder fire historier, bl.a. "DE DJÆVELSKE GNOMER", som aldrig tidligere er bragt i Danmark.
CLIFTON ARKIVERNE er den ultimative og kronologiske udgivelse af serien om Oberst Clifton i flotte hardcover-bøger! Bind 1 indeholder fire historier, bl.a. "DE DJÆVELSKE GNOMER", som aldrig tidligere er bragt i Danmark.
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144 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2014
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About the author
Raymond Macherot
72 books3 followersRaymond Macherot was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1924. He wanted to become a journalist or a painter but, for financial reasons, he became an illustrator and comics artist. Following the end of World War II, Macherot began his career producing a few cartoons in the style of Virgil Partch for the satirical weekly Pan, under the pseudonym "Zara". In 1953, he joined the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Tintin, where he wrote a scenario for Fred Funcken's Le chevalier blanc and made numerous illustrations and magazine covers.
In 1954, Macherot created the series Chlorophylle, featuring anthropomorphic animals. Macherot sets his first adventures in the countryside, where Chlorophylle, a dormouse, and his best friend Minimum, try to defeat animal villains often much bigger than themselves, typically led by the megalomaniac rat, Anthracite.
With Les croquillards (1957), Macherot placed his characters to the island of Croquefredouille, a fictitious country populated entirely with "civilized" animals, complete with technology, police, government, and so on. The action surrounds the introduction (by Anthracite, of course) of carnivorous animals to the island (the 'croquillards' of the title). The story is darkly comic, with many characters ending up as gourmet meals for the predators. Strangely, Macherot's publisher, Le Lombard, refused to release the Croquefredouille stories in book form until 1980.
Alternatively, in 1959, Macherot created Colonel Clifton, a series about a retired MI5 detective. He did three books worth of material, all the while continuing Chlorophylle, before calling it quits and moving to Spirou magazine, run by competitor-publisher Dupuis.
Le Lombard retained the rights to Macherot's abandoned series. Chlorophylle was taken up with mild success by successive teams of authors, notably Dupa & Greg, as well as Walli and Bob de Groot. As for Clifton, Turk & De Groot turned the series into a relative hit.
Macherot began his stint at Spirou with a new series, Chaminou, featuring a cat secret agent to the King, living in the country Zoolande. However, Chaminou's first story, Chaminou et le Khrompire (1964), was unpopular and Macherot abandoned Chaminou. Closer to Chlorophylle, Sibylline, featured a female mouse and her fiancé Taboum. Many books have been published in this series, which enjoyed some success. From 1972 to 1976, Paul Deliège wrote the scenarios for Sibylline. Macherot ended the series upon his retirement in 1990.
Other series created by Macherot for Spirou include Pantoufle (with René Goscinny), Mirliton (with Raoul Cauvin), and as scenarist on Mulligan with Yvan Delporte and Isabelle, with Delporte and André Franquin.
In the 1990s, Chaminou was revived, first by the team of Yann Lepennetier and Denis Bodart, and later by Olivier Saive, who completely redrew and augmented Chaminou et le Khrompire under Macherot's supervision, splitting it in two volumes. As for Sibylline, the series has been revived in 2006 by André Taymans for new adventures, also under Macherot's supervision.
Raymond Macherot died in the night of 25 and 26 September 2008 in his sleep.
In 1954, Macherot created the series Chlorophylle, featuring anthropomorphic animals. Macherot sets his first adventures in the countryside, where Chlorophylle, a dormouse, and his best friend Minimum, try to defeat animal villains often much bigger than themselves, typically led by the megalomaniac rat, Anthracite.
With Les croquillards (1957), Macherot placed his characters to the island of Croquefredouille, a fictitious country populated entirely with "civilized" animals, complete with technology, police, government, and so on. The action surrounds the introduction (by Anthracite, of course) of carnivorous animals to the island (the 'croquillards' of the title). The story is darkly comic, with many characters ending up as gourmet meals for the predators. Strangely, Macherot's publisher, Le Lombard, refused to release the Croquefredouille stories in book form until 1980.
Alternatively, in 1959, Macherot created Colonel Clifton, a series about a retired MI5 detective. He did three books worth of material, all the while continuing Chlorophylle, before calling it quits and moving to Spirou magazine, run by competitor-publisher Dupuis.
Le Lombard retained the rights to Macherot's abandoned series. Chlorophylle was taken up with mild success by successive teams of authors, notably Dupa & Greg, as well as Walli and Bob de Groot. As for Clifton, Turk & De Groot turned the series into a relative hit.
Macherot began his stint at Spirou with a new series, Chaminou, featuring a cat secret agent to the King, living in the country Zoolande. However, Chaminou's first story, Chaminou et le Khrompire (1964), was unpopular and Macherot abandoned Chaminou. Closer to Chlorophylle, Sibylline, featured a female mouse and her fiancé Taboum. Many books have been published in this series, which enjoyed some success. From 1972 to 1976, Paul Deliège wrote the scenarios for Sibylline. Macherot ended the series upon his retirement in 1990.
Other series created by Macherot for Spirou include Pantoufle (with René Goscinny), Mirliton (with Raoul Cauvin), and as scenarist on Mulligan with Yvan Delporte and Isabelle, with Delporte and André Franquin.
In the 1990s, Chaminou was revived, first by the team of Yann Lepennetier and Denis Bodart, and later by Olivier Saive, who completely redrew and augmented Chaminou et le Khrompire under Macherot's supervision, splitting it in two volumes. As for Sibylline, the series has been revived in 2006 by André Taymans for new adventures, also under Macherot's supervision.
Raymond Macherot died in the night of 25 and 26 September 2008 in his sleep.
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January 3, 2022
Detektive und gerade solche, die versuchen Sherlock Holmes nachzueifern, gibt es viele, aber was ist wichtiger? Eine möglichst gute Kopie von einem schon existierenden Detektiv zu erschaffen? Oder vielleicht nicht doch nur sich lediglich um eine Anlehnung an den Charakter zu bemühen, um einen eigenen Helden zu schaffen?
In einem kleinen Dorf in Frankreich...
Halt, falscher Comic... 😏
Auch wenn der vorliegende Comicband aus der Schmiede der frankobelgischen Zeichenkunst stammt und auch die Schöpfer von Asterix einen Blick darauf geworfen haben, handelt es sich nicht um ein Werk des bekanntesten Duos der Comicgeschichte.
Dabei ist der uns bekannte Colonel Percy Pickwick 1959 gar nicht unter diesem Namen von Raymond Macherot erschaffen worden. Vielmehr hörte er der ehemalige Geheimagent der MI5 auf den Namen: Colonel Clifton.
Der Comicband beginnt mit einer kleinen Einführung, wann, wer und wie der Charakter erfunden wurde und baut ebenfalls die Brücke zur deutschen Ausgabe, denn nicht immer waren die Erlebnisse des Colonel so schön zusammengefasst, wie es diese Ausgabe tut.
Im Stil der damaligen Comicgestaltung findet man sich beim Lesen in einer Zeitkapsel wieder, denn die Comics in der Sammlung haben genau den Charme, den man aus Kindertagen von Asterix, Lucky Luke und Co kennt.
Bei den Geschichten wird der ehemalige MI5 Agent in Entführungs-, Diebstahl- und Rufmordgeschichten verwickelt und da sein Herz auch heute noch für die Pfadfinder schlägt, kann er nicht anders. Er muss helfen!
Wie auch bei Asterix finden sich kleine gesellschaftlichen Spitzen in den Comics, sodass das Lesen ein umfänglicher Genuss ist.
Ein tolles Buch um in das neue Lesejahr zu starten.
5 von 5 nostalgischen Gefühlen
In einem kleinen Dorf in Frankreich...
Halt, falscher Comic... 😏
Auch wenn der vorliegende Comicband aus der Schmiede der frankobelgischen Zeichenkunst stammt und auch die Schöpfer von Asterix einen Blick darauf geworfen haben, handelt es sich nicht um ein Werk des bekanntesten Duos der Comicgeschichte.
Dabei ist der uns bekannte Colonel Percy Pickwick 1959 gar nicht unter diesem Namen von Raymond Macherot erschaffen worden. Vielmehr hörte er der ehemalige Geheimagent der MI5 auf den Namen: Colonel Clifton.
Der Comicband beginnt mit einer kleinen Einführung, wann, wer und wie der Charakter erfunden wurde und baut ebenfalls die Brücke zur deutschen Ausgabe, denn nicht immer waren die Erlebnisse des Colonel so schön zusammengefasst, wie es diese Ausgabe tut.
Im Stil der damaligen Comicgestaltung findet man sich beim Lesen in einer Zeitkapsel wieder, denn die Comics in der Sammlung haben genau den Charme, den man aus Kindertagen von Asterix, Lucky Luke und Co kennt.
Bei den Geschichten wird der ehemalige MI5 Agent in Entführungs-, Diebstahl- und Rufmordgeschichten verwickelt und da sein Herz auch heute noch für die Pfadfinder schlägt, kann er nicht anders. Er muss helfen!
Wie auch bei Asterix finden sich kleine gesellschaftlichen Spitzen in den Comics, sodass das Lesen ein umfänglicher Genuss ist.
Ein tolles Buch um in das neue Lesejahr zu starten.
5 von 5 nostalgischen Gefühlen
December 31, 2019
4 stjerner til hver af de tre Macherot historier, og 2 stjerner til Greg’s “De djævelske gnomer”. Den sidste har ikke tidligere været udgivet på dansk - og det forstår jeg godt efter at have læst den. Heldigvis ved vi jo at Greg senere havde styr på det med at skrive gode historier, fra hans senere album. Clifton Arkiverne 2 + 3 er planlagt til udgivelse i 2020.
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