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1957

Created by
André Franquin

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Cover of Gaston

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Gaston.

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, serving as a spin-off of the magazine's primary series Spirou et Fantasio, focuses on the everyday life of Gaston Lagaffe (whose surname means "the blunder"), a lazy and accident-prone office junior who works at Spirou's 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 handful of strips, there was no English translation until Cinebook began publishing English language editions of Gaston books as Gomer Goof in July, 2017.

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Type
comic book series
Country
Belgium
Published
1957
Appeared in
Spirou
The story

Gaston, in three panels

  1. 1957. Gaston begins in Belgium.

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