L'ombre du Z

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Spirou et Fantasio #16
L'ombre du Z

Cover of the Belgian edition

Publisher	Dupuis
Date	1962
Series	Spirou et Fantasio

Creative team
Writer(s)	Franquin with Greg
Artist(s)	Franquin with Jidéhem

Original publication
Published in	Le Journal de Spirou
Issue(s)	#1140 - #1183
Date(s) of publication	1960
Language	French
ISBN	ISBN 2-8001-0018-4

Chronology
Preceded by	Z comme Zorglub, 1961
Followed by	Spirou et les hommes-bulles, 1964

L'ombre du Z, written and drawn by Franquin, is the sixteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the second part of Franquin's Zorglub diptych. The story was initially serialised in Le Journal de Spirou, before being released as a hardcover album in 1962.

1 Story
2 Background
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Story

As The Shadow of Z, begins, Spirou, Fantasio and the Count of Champignac return from Zorgland, to find the population of Champignac have been paralyzed by the "zorglman" they left behind sedated, the abducted policeman Jérôme, who awoke and went on a stunning spree. After the ordeal of pacifying the rogue zorglman and restoring the people of Champignac to normal, time passes until Zorglub's sinister schemes again become evident. Without remorse (unlike the conscience-burdened act seen as Z comme Zorglub ends) Zorglub continues to work for world domination from Palombia, with increased ambition, and allied with Fantasio's evil nemesis cousin Zantafio.

[edit] Background

In no small part, this album joins Franquin's body of work that comments on the advertising industry.

There is a stylistic change can be seen over the course of these two albums. Over the years of the production of this essentially, one very long story, the dynamic, "realistic" style undergoes a metamorphosis towards the flexible, comic style Franquin was to develop over his final period.