Tchô!

Tchô! is a magazine Mensuel of prepublication of Cartoon, published since October 1998.

History and leading contents

The magazine Tchô! appears for the first time in 1998. Create under the impulse of Zep and Jean-Claude Camano, a number 0 of the “smaller newspaper of planet”, as it is defined itself, is inserted in the seventh album of the series Titeuf , the miracle of the life , is published in August 1998. The newspaper has an original format, since it is about a large sheet recto-back folded into sixteen, which brings back it to a format 12x15cm, slipped into a plastic small pocket, with a different gift each month. Except a new board of Titeuf , the synopsis of the number is composed of signatures little known of the French cartoon (Téhem with Malika Secouss , Tébo with Samson and Néon , Larcenet with Encyclo of the parents ) or Switzerland (Mix & Remix, Buche with Franky Snow ). It is also them which illustrate the plays which are intercalated between two boards of cartoon.

Number 1 appears in kiosks on September 30th, 1998, with virtually identical contents, but without participation of Larcenet whose Encyclo of the parents is taken again under various pencils. Then, with the wire of the months, of new authors become regular: Marie Shiver of Supiot and Baptizat appears in number 5, before Tony and Alberto of Dab' S or Jimmy Brocoli of Christophe Bertschy in number 7. Boulet publishes its first pages in number 10, and its Miya very discreetly appears four months later, followed by the Scientific Heading whose first grinding is added to the synopsis of number 15. Among the last characters of this first period of the newspaper, Bertschy tells the life of Smax as of number 17, the number 23 makes it possible to discover the world of Raghnarok , while Space Rangers (renamed then Womoks ) furrow space starting from number 29.

The magazine knows a first transformation at the time of number 9, of June 1999. To increase the visibility in kiosks, the format of the magazine is then doubled in height (without the total format of the unfolded newspaper being affected). But the principal change takes place with number 54, of February 2003 (after two numbers gone back to January 2003): Tchô! gives up its statute of “smaller newspaper mégagéant of planet” for that of “mégazine”, by adopting a more traditional format. The magazine counts consequently 60 pages (then 68), with a central poster intended to replace the gifts.

With this formula, legibility is clearly increased and the magazine can accommodate in its center of the Publicité. The increase in the pagination also allows of prépublier more boards of each series, and consequently makes it possible to the authors to be detached from the constraint of the “gag in a board”. After some stories developed on two pages in the Scientific Heading and Womoks , of many series are tested gradually in the “44 pages”, to start with Titeuf with the episode Nadia Marie . Titeuf remains the character emblematic of the magazine, like Spirou or Tintin for their respective weekly magazines, but, apart from the boards of the series, it is generally illustrated by other authors of the house that Zep.

Among the new figures of the newspaper in 2003, one finds Captain Biceps of Zep and Tébo, Lou of Julien Neel (already regularly present in Tchô! ) or Zblu Cops the following year. If these series are a sufficient success to be published in album, many headings have one rather short lifespan.

In January 2004, the International festival of the cartoon of Angouleme proposes Expo Tchô! .

Information

Editor: Directing Glénat
of the publication: Jacques Glénat
Editor associations:

Zep and Jean-Claude Camano (1 - 53)
Bruno Chevrier - Camano the Leading Council (54 -…)

Series

The majority of the series of the newspaper are published in albums, with the Glénat editions, in the collection Tchô! The collec… , as from 1999. One can quote in particular:

Titeuf
Samson & Neon
Miya
Franky Snow
Tony and Alberto
Lou!
Bao Battle
Zblu Cops
Raghnarok
Malika Secouss

Derivative products

In 2000, characters of Tchô! illustrates a school diary, at Glénat, whose new version is put on sale at the time of the following re-entries. During the summer 2001, the service station BP propose a collection of albums, the Band with Tchô! , taking again the characters of the magazine. The restaurants McDonald's also propose a collection of mugs to the effigy of Franky Snow , Malika Secouss , Tony and Alberto or Titeuf .

External bonds

Official site of '' Tchô! ''

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