Julie Wood
Julie Wood is a Franco-Belgian comic series published between 1976 and 1980 by Jean Graton .
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Julie Wood grew up in America in the 1970s. She can live out her passion, off-road motorcycling, in the vastness of the California desert. Julie makes her male friends look old enough often. As a result, Julie breaks out of this milieu and begins to take part in motorcycle races. At first on a smaller scale, later she also drives the famous " Baja 1000 " in Mexico, a motocross race with hundreds of participants, and does very well there. While the first seven albums play exclusively in America, a competition for Julie in the eighth volume also leads to Europe.
background
Jean Graton wrote and sketched the racing driver comic. His studio made the background drawings. The series first appeared in album form with Dargaud and in 1979 in Super As . The preprint in German-speaking countries began in 1977 in the old Zack . Koralle released five albums.
In the film Michel Vaillant , Julie Wood was played by Diane Kruger .
Publications
| No. | Original title | German title | German publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albums | |||
| 1 | Une fille nommée Julie Wood (44 p., Dargaud 04/1976) | A girl and a motorcycle | Coral Volume 1, 1978 |
| 2 | Défends-toi Julie (45 p., Dargaud 10/1976) | Defend yourself, Julie! | Coral Volume 2, 1978 |
| 3 | 500 fous au départ ... (44 p., Dargaud 01/1977) | Start of the 500 | ZACK magazine 1–5, 1978 |
| 4th | Pas de cadeau pour Julie (44 pp., Dargaud 01/1978) | (not yet published in German) | - |
| 5 | Le motard maudit (44 p., Dargaud 01/1979) | The stranger / chasing the motorcycle gangster / false suspicion | ZACK Parade 33/34/35, 1978/79 |
| 6th | Un ours, un singe ... et un side-car (44 p., Fleurus 09/1979) | Monkeys, bears, sidecross | Coral Volume 3, 1979 |
| 7th | Ouragan sur Daytona (46 pp., Fleurus 04/1980) | Hurricane over Daytona | Coral Volume 4, 1979 |
| 8th | Bol d'or (46 pp., Fleurus 07/1980) | The gold cup | Coral Volume 5, 1980 |
| Complete edition | |||
| 1 | L'Integrale 1 (180 pages, Dupuis 07/2015) contains albums 1–3 and 26 pages of additional material |
Complete edition 1 | Mosaic (ZACK Edition) 03/2017 |
| 2 | L'Integrale 2 (180 pages, Dupuis 01/2017) contains albums 4-6 and 25 pages of additional material |
(not yet published in German) | - |
| 3 | L'Integrale 3 (172 p., Dupuis 01/2019) contains albums 7–8, the KG "Le Héros du Paul Ricard", 22 pages of an exclusive unfinished story and 25 pages of additional material |
(not yet published in German) | - |
| other publications | |||
| - | Tiens pardi (Dargaud 1973) (no Julie Wood story) |
Bad luck for Joel (2 pages introduction with Julie Wood) | ZACK Parade 29, 1978 |
| - | Julie Wood au Paul Ricard (8 p., Koralle 1980) advertising album for the Paul Ricard race track |
(not yet published in German) | - |
| - | Le Héros du Paul Ricard (Coral 1981) Promotional album for the Paul Ricard race track |
The hero of Paul Ricard | The speech bubble 237, 08/2017 |
Guest appearances in Michel Vaillant
The stand-alone series Julie Wood ended after eight albums. Author Jean Graton justified this step as follows:
“For our next album, we decided to do the Paris-Dakar, a competition in which cars and motorcycles take part. That was interesting at this point in my career precisely because I was confronted with a dilemma: I was no longer able to write two series at the same time, Michel Vaillant and Julie Wood, so I decided to do the series "Julie Wood "To discontinue, but Julie was way too pretty to just disappear. She therefore joined the Vaillant saga. And in "Paris-Dakar" she took part on a motorcycle! "
Between 1982 and 1994 Julie Wood therefore had a number of guest appearances in Michel Vaillant . She appears for the first time in volume 41 (Paris-Dakar) and is initially a motorcyclist, as in her own series. Later she becomes the friend of her compatriot Steve Warson. From volume 44 (Steve & Julie) she switched to the cockpit of a Formula Ford racing car and appeared again and again as a driver of a Vaillantes until 1994 (volume 57 - A trace of Jade).
Web links
Individual references / comments
- ↑ Julie Wood on bedetheque.com (French)
- ↑ Julie Wood in Super As on bdoubliees.com (French)
- ↑ Julie Wood in Zack on comicguide.de
- ↑ Julie Wood at Koralle on comicguide.de
- ↑ Julie Wood. In: michel-vaillant.de. Retrieved March 8, 2016 .