Il y a un sorcier à Champignac

Spirou et Fantasio #2
Il y a un sorcier à Champignac
Cover of the Belgian edition
Date1951
SeriesSpirou et Fantasio
PublisherDupuis
Creative team
WritersFranquin
with Jijé
Scenario by Jean Darc
ArtistsFranquin
Original publication
Published inSpirou magazine
Issues
  1. 653 - #685
Date of publication1950 - 1951
LanguageFrench
ISBN2-8001-0004-4
Chronology
Preceded byQuatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio, 1950
Followed byLes chapeaux noirs, 1952

Il y a un sorcier à Champignac, by Franquin, is the second album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first to tell a long intricate story in what would become the Spirou tradition, in contrast to the previous short format stories. After serial publication in Spirou magazine, it was released as a complete hardcover album in 1951.

This work introduces several key characters in the series, and the village of Champignac-en-Cambrousse (a name derived from the French word for mushrooms, and 'cambrousse' meaning rural backwater).

It was published in English in 2017 by Euro Books as The Wizard of Culdesac.