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On July 11, 2011, I conducted my very first interview on French soil. On what turned out to be pretty much the only scorching hot day of an otherwise miserably cold and rainy summer, I met Vehlmann, the current scriptwriter of the series Spirou et Fantasio [Spirou and Fantasio], as part of the fieldwork for my doctoral thesis, a comparative study of representations of Latin America in French, Belgian, Argentinean and Mexican comics. During the interview, and in answer to a direct question, Vehlmann stated, without giving much away, that Spirou (the hero of the series) might visit a Latin American country in the future. I did not press for more information and made a mental note to keep an eye out for a graphic novel set in Latin America, but I did not yet know that he would enlist my help the following month.
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Pellegrin, A. (2016). Bearing Witness and Telling It How It Is: Dialogue and Collaboration in the Creation of Dans les griffes de la vipère . In: Brienza, C., Johnston, P. (eds) Cultures of Comics Work. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55090-3_11
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