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Casterman
Parent company	Flammarion
Founded	1780; 1934 as a comics publisher
Founder	Donat-Joseph Casterman
Country of origin	Belgium
Headquarters location	Tournai
Key people	Louis-Robert Casterman
Publication types	Comic books, children's literature
Imprints	Sakka
Official website	www.casterman.com

Casterman is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics, specializing in comic books and children's literature. The company is based in Tournai, 90 kilometres southwest of the centre of Brussels, Belgium.

History

The company was founded in 1780 by Donat-Joseph Casterman, an editor and bookseller originally from Tournai.^[1] Casterman was originally a printing company and publishing house. In 1934, Casterman took over the Le Petit Vingtième editions for the publication of the albums of The Adventures of Tintin, from the fourth album of the series, Cigars of the Pharaoh. From 1942, Casterman published reworked versions and colored versions of the previous Tintin albums.^[2]

Strengthened by the success of Hergé's comics, shortly after, Casterman proposed new series with new authors such as Jacques Martin, François Craenhals and C. & V. Hansen. From 1954 on, Casterman published children's books, as well, including the successful Martine books by Marcel Marlier and the Cadet- Rama books written by Alain Gree (units Achille et Bergamote and Petit Tom).

Keen to appeal to a more mature market, Casterman decided in 1973 to publish the first albums of Corto Maltese by the Italian author Hugo Pratt. Furthermore, in 1978, Casterman established its monthly magazine A Suivre, which was to influence the comics revival of the 1980s. Casterman ceased the publication of A Suivre in 1997.

Casterman is now part of Groupe Flammarion.^[3]

Casterman's manga series are published under the imprint Sakka.^[4]

Main publications

Comics series

This is a selected list of comics series, ordered by year of first publication by Casterman, with main authors given. A few series were also continued or temporarily taken over by other artists and writers.

1929: The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
1930: Quick & Flupke by Hergé
1934: Popol Out West by Hergé
1949: The Adventures of Alix by Jacques Martin
1952: The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko by Hergé
1958: Rasmus Klump by Carla and Vilhelm Hansen
1973: Yakari by Job and Derib, Joris Chamblain
1975: Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt
1976: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec by Jacques Tardi
1978: Inspector Canardo Benoît Sokal
1983: Le Chat by Philippe Geluck
1986: Chninkel by Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosiński

Books series

1954: Martine by Marcel Marlier and Gilbert Delahaye^[5]
2004: CHERUB by Robert Muchamore
2010: Henderson's Boys by Robert Muchamore

Magazines

1975: Fluide Glacial
1978: À Suivre
2003: Bang !
2016: Pandora

References

^ Bocquet, José-Louis, and Fromental, Jean-Luc. The Adventures of Hergé (Drawn and Quarterly, 2011).
^ "Casterman History". altaplana.be. 12 October 2023.
^ Casterman Printing à Tournai : 5 travailleurs repris par un groupe néerlandais, Rtbf.be, 1^er décembre 2016.
^ "Casterman - 't Vlaams Stripcentrum". vlaamsstripcentrum (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 October 2023.
^ "Tiny by Casterman". hetlandvanooit.be (in Dutch). 12 October 2023.