Isabelle (comics)

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Isabelle is a Belgian comic book series drawn by Will and with a story by Franquin, Delporte and Macherot.

Isabelle is a Belgian comic which first appeared in Spirou around 1970. Made by a top-team of already famous collaborators of the magazine, the series gained a small but fanatical following. The first stories were written by Franquin (of Gaston Lagaffe), Delporte (redactor of Spirou and writer of many comics) and Macherot (creator of Sybilline). In later years, only Delporte wrote the stories in collaboration with Will. Twelve albums followed until the death of Will in 2002.

The little girl Isabelle (who is named after Franquin's daughter) gets into a lot of adventures when the evil witch Calendula troubles Isabelle's uncle Hermes and his fiancee, the good witch Calendula (who is the grand-grand-grand-etc. daughter of the evil Calendula). Other stories are about a magical painting, a flying village or a floating island.

The stories have a poetical tone , although mixed with tons of jokes and puns, rhyming ghosts, a talking diamond and a down-to-earth aunt of Isabelle whose greatest concern when Isabelle gets into an adventure is if she is dressed warm enough (even when she descends into Hades). The drawings are packed with details and reflect the poetic nature of the stories in the imaginative animals and backgrounds.