Why Spifan and Why not Random Women?
I took a look at the album "Le groom vert-de-gris" and damn
(in a site that had the pdf)
-{ I'm going to be honest. I don't like to see them with a woman ("dating", having a crush, kissing, etc). One of the reasons is that in almost all the cases it ruins the whole story that has been built between them and around them. Or it's just unecessary/meaningless for the plot.
And sometimes, in certain albums, the addition of one or more women with whom one (or both) of them will fall in love or have some kind of romantic or even physical/sexual interest completely ruins the characters' personalities and the story itself. }-
In "Le groom vert-de-gris" what I noticed was that the women seem to be a "representation" of Spirou (the ginger) and Fantasio (the blonde). What is even more curious is that Spirou ended up with the tall blonde, and Fantasio ended up with the short redhead.
Not to mention the colour palette of their clothes, which also reminds us of each of them.
-> IDEA: Maybe the design of both women was, for Schwartz, a small escape from Yann's argument to allow Spifan to breathe a little in the midst of all this. But in a discreet way. With visual information that only a Spifan like us would be able to detect hahaah
I look very closely at each S&F album as I read it. I'm always looking for important details in the drawings and the significance of certain characters, for example. In Schwartz's case, his illustrations have a bigger complexity because he includes lots of small but very important details.
Knowing the author and his (unofficially confirmed) love for the duo, I could say that, regardless of the plot/script presented to him, he always adds a little of his own essence, which is normal in a collaboration but makes all the difference.
I do all this observation and, ultimately, research because I really like Spifan ❤️
And I would love it to be official, to be real
This is just an opinion / observation, not necessarely the truth. Please don't take it as an offence
Sorry to Schwartz (if I am saying something wrong about the way you see Spirou and Fantasio's relationship), to every author of Spirou et Fantasio that does not apreciate this and to DUPUIS.
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