Le Petit Noël

Synopsis

Characters

• Noël is a small, shy, introverted, quite unhappy and unlucky boy. His schoolmates make fun of him.
• The Elaoin Sdrétu is an automaton, a resourceful machine able to guess and provide what a human needs to be happy.
• Marsupilami is a friendly animal whose extremely long and agile tail provides many possibilities.

  Publications in ''Spirou''

• 1957 N.1027 La bûche de Noël by Franquin and Jidéhem
• 1958 N.1078 Les étranges amis de Noël by Franquin
• 1959 N.1131 Noël et l’Elaoin by Franquin
• 1964 N.1354 Joyeuses paques pour mon p’tit Noël by Franquin

  Albums

• Le prisonnier du bouddha and Panade à Champignac, two albums of the Spirou et Fantasio series drawn by Franquin, feature Noël.
• Noël et l'élaoin was published in black and white by the Yann Rudler editions in 1978. It was reedited in colours in 1982 by Bédérama editions.
• Crontch, crontch, was published by Durango editions in 1986.
• Capturez un Marsupilami, the seminal Marsupilami album contains a few stories with Noël, published 2002 by Marsu Productions editions.
• Les Noëls de Franquin, published by Marsu-Productions in 2006, groups all the stories drawn by Franquin and pre-published in Spirou in the 1950s and 1960s in relation with the Christmas period: covers, calendars, illustrations and some Noël strips.
• Retrouvailles, an album made under Franquin's supervision, with script by Serdu and artwork by Stibane, published in 1990 by Marsu Productions.