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58 Notes: 1. French word meaning ‘flurry’ or ‘uproar’, an expression used by the Navy when they are preparing to combat. 2. A rural (and later children’s) weeklymagazine that began as Fripounet et Marisette from 1945 to 1969, and then became just Fripounet from 1969 until 1993. 3. A French comics magazine for the youth that carried such popular strips as Asterix , Valerian , Blueberry and countless others. 4. A comic strip about a young globe-trotting reporter created by Belgian artist Hergé, pen-name of Georges Rémi (1907-1983). 5. A comic strip about a bell-boy originally created by French cartoonist RobVel, pen name of Robert Velter (1909-1991), and taken over by many other artists since. 6. André Fanquin (1924-1997), popular Belgian artist, creator of the series Gaston Lagaffe , known here as ‘Gomer Goof’. 7. Jean-Pierre Dionnet (b. 1947), French editor, and co-creator of the adult Science Fiction comicsmagazine Métal Hurlant alongwith Jean (Moebius) Giraud, Philippe Druillet and Bernard Farkas. 8. Freddy Lombard was a series created by Yves Chaland (1957-1990). Although the main character resembled Tintin, the series was based on Chaland’s love for Belgian pre-1950s comics. Themain character’s name was derived from Belgian artist Jijé’s first comic strip, ‘Freddy Fred’, and the Belgian publisher, Lombard, who published the Journal de Tintin , among others. 9. Michel Tacq (1927-1994), Belgian artist. 10. Jean-Michel Charlier (1924-1989), Belgian writer and co-founder of the French comics magazine Pilote . 11. Raymond Poïvet (1910-1999), French artist, creator of one of the longest-running French Science Fiction comic strips, Les Pionniers de l’Espérance ( The Pioneers of Hope ; Hope being the name of a space‐ ship), which lasted from 1945 until 1973. 12. The ‘Marcinelle school’ refers to a group of Belgian cartoonists formed by Joseph ‘Jijé’ Gillain (1914-1980) following the Second World War. They all drew humorous comics in a similar ‘clean’ and uncluttered, big-nose graphic style. 13. Strange was a pocket-sized paperback comic that appeared in France between 1970 and 1988, collecting the Marvel superhero comics when published by Lug, and later, when taken over by Semic, they in‐ cluded the DC comic characters as well. 14. Marcel Gotlib (1934-2016), French cartoonist, creator of the humor‐ ous magazine Fluide Glacial , still in existence today. 15. The French Isabey brushes are handmade Pure Kolinsky sable-hair brushes; only a very short length of hair is exposed from the ferrule, giving it an almost instantaneous snap back to its original sharp point. 16. ‘Rent-controlled housing’; private housing in France for people with low revenues.