Last week I got a copy of the newsletter from the Belgian Postal division : Philanews.
In it, there was an article about the new stamp of Yoko Tsuno, but also a new (?) mini album with some short stories and the stamps. It comes in 2 editions: a normal one and a deluxe one. The deluxe one has apart from the new stamp also the stamps which appeared from yoko last year.
Below you can find pictures of both albums and of the entire article, however it is in Dutch.
First the Deluxe album:
Secondly the standard album:
And the entire article (in Dutch) :
The article translates in English as follows:
"Philacomics: Yoko Tsuno - 'Missives Spatiales'
Yoko Tsuno is a very unique person in the history of comics.
She is for one a woman (and therefore beautiful and tender), and moves as a fish in water in worlds, where normally only men feel themselves at home.
She is an electronics professor and her scientific mind collides with that of many other scientists. She is all about sports, has a black belt in Aïkido and in most cases does not let herself be intimidated by male persons, whether that being on top of the earth surface or below the earth surface, or in an universum of unknown planets....
Roger Leloup, her spiritual father, is a multi talented author, who has both a talent for writing as also for drawing. The album 'Missives Spatiales' includes besides a richly illustrated, complete and unpublished biography of Roger Leloup, also a number of short stories from the starting period of Yoko Tsuno. The deluxe album will be signed by Roger Leloup.
The albums will have the stamp from Yoko Tsuno. The deluxe album also will have the 5 duostamps released last year from this comic hero.
Information:
- Format = 15x21cm
- Number of issues: the normal one = 1.600 issues
the deluxe one = 625 issues
- Price = 27 euro for the normal one
72 euro for the deluxe issue
- Codes to order the normal issue : BO0904FYT
the deluxe issue : BO0904FLYT
Both albums are only available in French"
Edité lundi 08 juin 2009 : 00:02 par jaro
Thanks for sharing ! 
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Thanks for the info. Is there any extra info on when they will become available?
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yes, it will be released on the 29th of this month : June 29, 2009
Thanks for the extra info. I think I will make a small trip to Belgium soon....
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"Ceux qui y sont arrivés 2 fois"
Thanks a lot for this information ! 
"Les enfants sont comme les marins : où que se portent leurs yeux, partout c'est l'immense."
(Christian Bobin)
Hello, if you want to buy this mini album, i give you this adress
http://www.bddirect.com/index.php3?categ=NOUVEAU&page=famille&famille=APARATR&titre=A paraître - Souscription
Ce monde est froid et cruel. Nous n'y trouverons que l'amour que nous y mettrons.
Last week I received my copy of the Deluxe-edition of this mini-album. I ordered it directly from the "Belgian Postal Division".
The deluxe-version is numbered (I received number CXL in this limited series of 625 copies), and signed by Mr. Leloup.
Inside it are:
- The five Yoko-duostamps from last year, and the new Yoko-stamp.
- A biography of Mr. Leloup and the 'development' of Yoko by Marc Carlot.
- Several paintings Mr. Leloup made during his youth and several 'early drawings', not releated to Yoko.
- A page from "Jacky et Celestin", on which Mr Leloup did the backgrounds, and a Schtroumpfs-page, made entirely by Mr. Leloup, during his short time at at 'Studio Peyo'
- The three short stories we know from "Aventures Électroniques": "CAP 351", "L'aragnée qui volait" and "Du miel pour Yoko"
- A lot of drawings of Yoko, old and new, several of those also appeared in the intoductional texts to the "Intégrales"-albums.
And, only in the 'deluxe'-edition: Page 2 from "Porte des Âmes" consisting of the drawing (in black ink) on a transparant foil , and the coloring on a thick white paper. Put over eachother, they create the page 
. It has the same 'number' as the deluxe-album
It is a nice mini-album . BTW: The text is in French
It's the shame Yoko isn't very popular here. I have looking a long time for such nice things, but if you only able to unterstand a few sentences in Dutch...
On the other site, we have all Albums including the Integrales, so better than nothing.
C'est vraiment impressionnant de voir un personnage comme Yoko Tsuno, une femme forte et intelligente, évoluer dans des univers souvent dominés par des hommes. Le fait que l'album 'Missives Spatiales' propose des histoires inédites et soit accompagné de la signature de Roger Leloup rend cette édition encore plus spéciale. Une belle occasion pour les fans de la série !
