The Spiffy Adventures of McConey
Mr. Hase's hair-raising adventure (French: Les aventures de formidable Lapinot ) is a comic book series of French comic artist Lewis Trondheim.
Content
The characters in this series are anthropomorphic animals, as with most comics from Trondheim. The main character " Mr. Rabbit " ( Lapinot ) is actually not prone to adventures young man mid-20s, but also the fighting spirit shows when it is required.
Other recurring characters are Mr. Hase's friend Richard ( a cat ), which is characterized by youthful exuberance; Thierry " Titi " Baker ( a dog ), a arrivierter philanderer; Pierrot ( a rat ), the intellectual; and Nadia Cassayrane ( a mouse ), aspiring journalist and Hase's girlfriend.
A peculiarity of the series is that the characters as actors are used, employing Trondheim in different environments and genres. "Black Town," for example, is a Western, " mildew " a cloak-and -dagger action, and " Walter" a horror story set in the 19th century. But there are also episodes that play in the present and tell the story of Mr. Hare and Nadia.
Richard the hangover is much to set to the genre episodes as villain and enemy Mr. Hase's in scene, while he is rabbit in the "present episodes of " the best friend of the Lord. Here you experience both as a brother and sister incessantly arguing: rabbit as big brother and Richard as a hopeless child's head, which is characterized by occurrence naughty and cheerful irresponsibility. The villain role is thus a twinkle in terms of " immoral ", " unscrupulous " character of Richard.
Publication
The figure Lapinot occurs the first time in the small band "Un intérieur d' artiste" (L' Asociacion, 1991), which, however, also in French is no longer available and is no longer placed on Trondheim's request.
The first Lapinot album was on German not yet released " Lapinot et les carottes de Patagonie ", a black and white 500 -page fantasy epic with Crime bonds with which Trondheim taught the comic drawing his own words. It was released in 1992 in which a co-founder of Trondheim publisher L'Association, as well as the next band " slalom " (1993). It tells of how Mr. Rabbit had encountered in a winter holiday Nadia.
The third album, " mildiou ", was published in 1994 in paperback published by Le Seuil. In Reprodukt publishing this volume has also been published in German under the title " mildew ".
From the album "Black Town " (1995 ) shows the series at Dargaud in the usual French album format and in color. A total of 10 albums are published by Dargaud that the band numbers 0 to 9 carry. Band 0 is a newly drawn color version of " slalom ", who prepared Trondheim, as the second band at Dargaud, " Pichenettes ," the sequel to " slalom " is. The Volume 9, " L' accélérateur Atomique " (2003), a year seemed paradoxically Volume 8, " La vie comme elle vient " (2004). Since then, Trondheim did not continue the series.
The Dargaud albums have appeared on the German publisher Carlsen and carry there the numbers 1 to 10 Unfortunately, the band order here does not correspond to the French version. " Slalom " here is Volume 3, even though he plays chronologically before Volume 2 " Cursed " ( " Pichenettes ").
Another story of this series appeared in English in 2000 in the American publisher fantasizes graphic -books in the booklet "the Nimrod # 4" and bears the title "the stroll". It is black and white and set in the present. The first publication was in 1996 in the French band " Noire est la terre " (published by Autrement ) under the title " Promenade". She tells how Lapinot, Richard, Titi and Pierrot go on a short break to the country and take a walk in nature, as the city people, however, is foreign to them.
Some characters from the Mr. Hare universe Trondheim also has set without Mr. Hare in scene: Titi has a cameo in Lewis Trondheim schemers, a mini - comic for the reproduction series R -24. The secondary characters Felix Gimpel ( duck) and Patrick Lion Heart ( Cat) are the protagonists of the spin-off volumes My friend, the computer ( 2003) and Not Without My Console (2004 ), both at Carlsen. In the original, these two volumes were published in the series " Les aventures formidable sans Lapinot " - ie " The hair-raising adventure without Mr. Rabbit"!
Recently appeared on Mr. Rabbit on the cover of No. 3658 of the Belgian comic magazine Spirou on 21 May 2008. Links of the title lettering you see him in the clothes of the title character Spirou, the right of it is discharged in underwear and handcuffed by two police officers who pulled him the costume.