''Le lourd passé de Lagaffe'', written and drawn by Franquin and

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, is an album of the original ''

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 blund ...

'' series, numbered R5. It is made up of 46 pages and was published by

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. 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 series
on the official website

on bdoubliées.com.

External links

Official website
Comics by André Franquin 1986 graphic novels {{FrancoBelgian-comics-stub