There are parallels between the North American and Franco-Belgian publishing market. Take, for example, the way serialized stories are collected into larger volumes in addition to albums. This is the story of how Jean Dupuis took the unsold issues of Le Journal de Spirou and created a secondary market for them that helped grow the brand.

It's a model that would be repeated by Spirou's competition. I did a whole article explaining how it worked for Pilote Journal, for example, complete with video.

I hope to get a hole of a Spirou collection someday so I can do something similar with it. For now, this podcast will have to do.

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