Natacha is a Franco-Belgian

Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics are comics that are created in Belgium and France. These countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs, an abbreviation of bande dessinée in French and stripverhalen in Dutch...

 comics

Comics

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 series, created by François Walthéry

François Walthéry

François Walthéry is a Belgian comics artist, best known for his series featuring an adventurous flight attendant, Natacha.-Biography:...

 and Gos. Drawn by Walthéry, its stories have been written by several authors including Gos, Peyo

Peyo

Pierre Culliford , known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip.-Biography:...

, Maurice Tillieux

Maurice Tillieux

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, Raoul Cauvin

Raoul Cauvin

Raoul Cauvin is a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field.-Biography:Raoul Cauvin was born in Antoing, Belgium in 1938. He studied lithography at the Institut Saint-Luc in Tournai, but upon leaving school found that there no jobs available for lithographers...

 and Marc Wasterlain. It was first published in the comics magazine

Franco-Belgian comics magazines

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 Spirou

Spirou (magazine)

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on February 26, 1970. The series eventually ended serial publication in Spirou, leaving its publisher Dupuis

Dupuis

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, and began publishing albums only through Marsu Productions

Marsu Productions

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 in 1989, starting with the album Cauchemirage.

Synopsis

It tells the adventures of a young sexy flight attendant

Flight attendant

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, and her colleague and on-again off-again boyfriend Walter.

Albums

1. Natacha, hôtesse de l'air (script by Gos), Dupuis, 1971.
2. Natacha et le Maharadjah (script by Gos), Dupuis, 1972.
3. La mémoire de métal (script by Étienne Borgers), Dupuis, 1974. Also contains Un brin de panique (written by Marc Wasterlain)
4. Un Trône pour Natacha (script by Maurice Tillieux), Dupuis, 1975.
5. Double vol, (script by Mittéï and Walthéry, Dupuis, 1976. Also contains L'étoile du berger (written by Gos) and Un tour de passe-passe (script by Lemasque).
6. Le treizième apôtre (script by Maurice Tillieux), Dupuis, 1978.
7. L'hôtesse et Mona Lisa (script by Mittéï, additional art by Pierre Seron
   Pierre Seron
   Pierre Seron is a Belgian comic book artist born in Chênée on 9 February 1942.-Biography:He spent the first few years of his life in Liège then followed the work transfers of his father, an engineer, to Montreal, Canada, Libourne, France, the Bordeaux region, Givet in the Ardennes region and then...
   
   ), Dupuis, 1979. Also contains Natacha et les petits miquets (script by Walthéry and Mittéï).
8. Instantanés pour Caltech (script by Étienne Borgers, additional art by Jidéhem
   Jidéhem
   Jean De Mesmaeker known by the pseudonym Jidéhem, is a Belgian comics artist in the Marcinelle school tradition. A creator of his own series Sophie, and Ginger, and noted for his work with Starter and Uhu-man, he is perhaps best known for his collaborations and assistance to the work of André...
   
   ), Dupuis, 1981.
9. Les machines incertaines (script by Étienne Borgers, additional art by Jidéhem), Dupuis, 1983.
10. L'ile d'outre-monde (script by Marc Wasterlain, additional art by Will
    Will (comics)
    Willy Maltaite known by the pseudonym Will, was a comics creator and comics artist in the Franco-Belgian tradition...
    
    ), Dupuis, 1984.
11. Le grand pari (script by Mittéï, additional art by Laudec), Dupuis, 1985.
12. Les culottes de fer (script by Mittéï, additional art by Laudec), Dupuis, 1986.
13. Les nomades du ciel (script by Raoul Cauvin, additional art by Laudec), Dupuis, 1988.
14. Cauchemirage (script by Mythic, additional art by Mittéï), Marsu Productions, 1989.
15. La ceinture du Cherchemidi (script by Peyo, additional art by Mittéï), Marsu Productions, 1992.
16. L'ange blond (script by Maurice Tillieux, additional art by Georges Van Linthout), Marsu Productions, 1994.
17. La veuve noire (script by Michel Dusart, additional art by Georges Van Linthout), Marsu Productions, 1997.
18. Natacha et les dinosaures (script by Marc Wasterlain), Marsu Productions, 1998.
19. La mer des rochers (script by Peyo), Marsu Productions, 2004.
20. Atoll 66 (script by Guy d'Artet, additional art by Di Sano), Marsu Productions, 2007.
21. Le Regard du Passe (script by Martens, art by Walthery), Marsu Productions, 2010.

Sources

• Natacha publications in Spirou BDoubliées
• Natacha albums Bedetheque

Footnotes

External links

• Natacha official site
• Natachamania unofficial site
• Natacha on Les Belles des bédés (Cartoon Beauties)