Editing Spike and Suzy (section)

==Publication history==
Willy Vandersteen created ''Suske en Wiske'', beginning publication in ''[[De Standaard|De Nieuwe Standaard]]'' on 30 March 1945. To Vandersteen's disappointment the editor had renamed the strip's first chapter ''Rikki en Wiske''.<ref name="lambiek">{{Cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia|title=Willy Vandersteen|url= http://lambiek.net/artists/v/vandersteen.htm}}</ref> The following story was titled ''De avonturen van Suske en Wiske - Op het eiland Amoras'' and no longer featured Rikki.<ref name="ohwwwintro">{{Cite web|last=Koper|first=Frank|publisher=Suske en Wiske op het www| title=Introduction to the history of Spike and Suzy|url=http://suskeenwiske.ophetwww.net/index.html?intro/engintro.html}}</ref> After a few years of publication in several newspapers, Vandersteen was approached by [[Hergé]], intent to improve sales of the Dutch-language version of ''[[Tintin (magazine)|Tintin]]'' magazine (''Kuifje''), who wanted ''Suske and Wiske'' for his publications redrawn in the [[Ligne claire]] style.<ref name="lambiek-tintin">{{Cite web|last=Lambiek Comiclopedia|title=Tintin|url=http://lambiek.net/magazines/tintin.htm}}</ref> Vandersteen made the adaptation and ''Suske en Wiske'' first appeared in ''Kuifje'' and Belgian ''Tintin'' on 16 September 1948 with the story titled ''Het Spaanse spook'' and ''Le Fantôme Espagnol'' in the two languages.<ref name="ohwwwintro"/><ref name="BDO-48">{{Cite web|last=BDoubliées|title=Tintin année 1948|url= http://bdoubliees.com/tintinbelge/annees/1948.htm|language=fr}}</ref> All 8 stories that were run until it ended in April 1959 made up the material collected in [[The Blue Series]].

Vandersteen established [[Studio Vandersteen]] in 1952 to manage his expanded activities.<ref name="lambiek"/> To have time for other series such as ''[[De Rode Ridder]]'' (''The Red Knight'') and ''Tijl Uilenspiegel'', he gave [[Paul Geerts]] the job of creating new albums of ''Suske en Wiske'' in 1968. Geerts did this until 2001, when he gave this task to [[Marc Verhaegen]]. From 2005 on, a team of writers and cartoonists makes the new series, led by [[Luc Morjeau]]. These authors are helped by Studio Vandersteen.

On 17 December 2022, after 77 years, ''[[De Standaard]]'' newspaper ended daily publication of ''Suske en Wiske'', following a cost-benefit decision.<ref name="einde">{{cite web |author1=Kristien Bonneure |title="Einde": Suske en Wiske verdwijnen na 77 jaar uit de krant |url=https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2022/12/17/einde-suske-en-wiske-verdwijnt-na-77-jaar-uit-de-krant/ |website=VRT NWS |publisher=vrtnws.be |access-date=20 January 2023 |language=nl |date=17 December 2022}}</ref>