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En Direct De La Gaffe
''En direct de la gaffe'', written and drawn by Franquin and Delporte, is an album of the original ''Gaston Lagaffe'' series, numbered R4. It is made up of 44 pages and was published by Dupuis Éditions Dupuis S.A. () is a Belgium, Belgian publisher of comic albums and magazines. Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic comics album, albums and magazines. It is .... It consists of a series of one-strip gags. Story This album is made up of small-sized strip and article relating Gaston' blunders. All the gags and articles, entitled "En direct de la rédaction", written by Yvan Delporte for the Gaston Lagaffe series are grouped in this album. It is also constituted of Spirou covers. Many new characters are introduced, such as Jules Soutier, Bertrand Labévue, Beaucoudeau and Mélanie Molaire. The Gaffophone also appears for the first time. Inventions *trouser press: system to make the ironing of trousers ...
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Dupuis
Éditions Dupuis S.A. () is a Belgium, Belgian publisher of comic albums and magazines. Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic comics album, albums and magazines. It is originally a French language publisher, but publishes many editions both in French and Dutch language, Dutch. Other language editions are mostly licensed to other publishers. Dupuis was for a long time a family business but was sold in the early 1980s and has since changed ownership a few times. Origin The growth of Dupuis towards becoming the leading comic book editor of Belgium started in 1938, when Dupuis added to its portfolio a men's magazine (''Le moustique'' [the mosquito] in French, ''HUMO, Humoradio'' in Dutch), a women's magazine (''Bonnes Soirées'' [good evenings] in French, ''De Haardvriend'' [the hearth's friend] in Dutch) and the children's comics magazine ''Spirou (magazine), Spirou''. The latter was originally only in Fren ...
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Gaston Lagaffe
''Gaston'' is a Belgian gag-a-day comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou''. The series focuses on the everyday life of Gaston Lagaffe (whose surname means "the blunder"), a lazy and accident-prone office junior who works at ''Spirous office in Brussels. Gaston is very popular in large parts of Europe (especially in Belgium and France) and has been translated into over a dozen languages, but except for a few pages by Fantagraphics in the early 1990s (as ''Gomer Goof''), there was no English translation until Cinebook began publishing English language editions of Gaston books (again named 'Gomer Goof') in July, 2017. Since the 1980s Gaston has appeared on a wide variety of merchandise. Publication history André Franquin who was then in charge of ''Spirou et Fantasio'', the primary series of '' Spirou'' magazine, first introduced the character Gaston in issue n°985, published February 28, 1957. Th ...
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Spirou (magazine)
''Spirou'' (french: Le Journal de Spirou) is a weekly Franco-Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company since April 21, 1938. It's an anthology magazine with new features appearing regularly, containing a mix of short humor strips and serialized features, of which the most popular series would be collected as albums by Dupuis afterwards. History Creation With the success of the weekly magazine ''Le Journal de Mickey'' in France, and the popularity of the weekly ''Adventures of Tintin'' in ''Le Petit Vingtième'', many new comic magazines or youth magazines with comics appeared in France and Belgium in the second half of the 1930s. In 1936, the experienced publisher Jean Dupuis put his sons Paul and the 19-year-old Charles in charge of a new magazine aimed at the juvenile market. First appearing 21 April 1938, it was a large format magazine, available only in French and only in Wallonia. It was an eight-page weekly comics magazine composed of a mixture of short ...
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André Franquin
André Franquin (; 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best-known creations are '' Gaston'' and ''Marsupilami''. He also produced the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' comic strip from 1946 to 1968, a period seen by many as the series' golden age. Biography Franquin's beginnings Franquin was born in Etterbeek in 1924.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "André Franquin". In België gestript, pp. 113-115. Tielt: Lannoo. Although he started drawing at an early age, Franquin got his first actual drawing lessons at '' École Saint-Luc'' in 1943. A year later however, the school was forced to close down because of the war and Franquin was then hired by Compagnie belge d'actualités (CBA), a short-lived animation studio in Brussels. It is there he met some of his future colleagues: Maurice de Bevere (Morris, creator of ''Lucky Luke''), Pierre Culliford (Peyo, creator of the ''Smurfs''), and Eddy Paape. Three of them (minus Peyo) were hired by Dupuis in 1945, ...
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Yvan Delporte
Yvan Delporte (24 June 1928 – 5 March 2007) was a Belgian comics writer, and was editor-in-chief of '' Spirou'' magazine between 1955 and 1968 during a period considered by many the golden age of Franco-Belgian comics. He is credited with several creative contributions, among these his collaborations with Peyo on ''The Smurfs'', with René Follet on ''Steve Severin (1/2)'' and André Franquin with the creation of ''Gaston Lagaffe'' and the co-authorship of ''Idées noires ''Franquin's Last Laugh'' (french: Idées noires: Dark thoughts) is a collection of black comedy comic strips drawn by André Franquin, written by Franquin and Yvan Delporte. The one-page stories first appeared frequently in 1977, in the brief ru ...''. Biography Delporte started at ''Spirou'' at the age of 17. Where his first job was to retouch the cleavage in American comics which at the time were considered excessively lewd. He handled other odd jobs, and over time touched upon a great deal of different ...
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Gare Aux Gaffes Du Gars Gonflé
''Gare aux gaffes du gars gonflé'', written and drawn by Franquin and Jidéhem, is an album of the original ''Gaston Lagaffe'' series, numbered R3. It is made up of 52 pages and was published by Dupuis Éditions Dupuis S.A. () is a Belgium, Belgian publisher of comic albums and magazines. Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic comics album, albums and magazines. It is .... It consists of a series of one-strip gags. Story Longtarin appears for the first time and watch over Gaston very carefully, all the more as he Gaston have acquired a strange automobile. Gaston signs a contract with De Mesmaeker. Inventions *vehicle to take downstairs: vehicle which slides on the ballisters, but cannot turn *filter for cigarettes: filter which causes explosions, the rights were bought by a joke shop *ejector seat for cars : seat not to leave lying in offices, for it can be dangerous for someone *machine to cork bo ...
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Le Lourd Passé De Lagaffe
''Le lourd passé de Lagaffe'', written and drawn by Franquin and Jidéhem, is an album of the original ''Gaston Lagaffe'' series, numbered R5. It is made up of 46 pages and was published by Dupuis Éditions Dupuis S.A. () is a Belgium, Belgian publisher of comic albums and magazines. Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic comics album, albums and magazines. It is .... It consists of a series of one-strip gags. Story This album is made up of all the gags and illustrations that had not been previously published in album. Background This album was definitely the last album numbered "R", but another album of re-publication would follow latter, the Gaston Lagaffe #0. Inventions * light backpack: thanks to a helium cylinder bonbonne which blows up a balloon it's easier to carry burdens References Gaston Lagaffe classic serieson the official website on bdoubliées.com. External linksOfficial website ...
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1974 Graphic Novels
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the German national team won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire. Events January–February * January 26 – Bülent Ecevit of CHP forms the ne ...
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