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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Dupuis titles, Jeremiah, Gaston, Sammy, Spirou et Fantasio, Scrameustache, Johan and Peewit, Marsupilami, Gil Jourdan, The Forever War, Benoit Brisefer, La Ribambelle, Melusine, Genial Olivier, Boule et Bill, Soda, The Smurfs, Les Tuniques Bleues, Kid Paddle, Tif et Tondu, The Bellybuttons, Largo Winch, Papyrus, Deogratias, L'oncle Paul, Le Petit Spirou, X!NK, La Patrouille des Castors, Natacha, Les Femmes en Blanc, Cedric, Le Petit Noel, Bobo, Jerry Spring, Billy the Cat, Agent 212, Musti, Plunk, Pandora Box, HUMO, Jessica Blandy, Lady S, Cupidon, Orbital, Aria, Isabelle, Green Manor, Jeanette Pointu, Kogaratsu, Sarajevo Tango, Dallas Barr, Theodore Poussin. Excerpt: Gaston is a comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist Andre Franquin in the comic strip magazine, Spirou. The series focuses on the every-day life of Gaston Lagaffe, a lazy and accident-prone (his surname means "the blunder") office junior. It is very popular in large parts of Europe (especially in Belgium and France), but except for a few pages by Fantagraphics in the early 90s (as Gomer Goof), there is no published English translation. Gaston Lagaffe goes by different names in various languages and countries: Guust Flater in Dutch, Tomas el Gafe in Spanish, Sergi Grapes in Catalan, Gastao Dabronca in some Portuguese translations, Gaston Sequivoc in Argentina, Gastono Lafu in Esperanto, Viggo in Norwegian, Vakse Viggo in Danish, Viggo Vioutan in Icelandic, Niilo Pielinen in Finnish, Ga a eprtlja in Serbian, ap al Gazi in Turkish and simply Gaston in German as well as in Swedish and Greek. In German he was also called (very briefly during a syndication) Jo-Jo. Since the 1980s Gaston has appeared on a wide variety of merchandise. Gaston's very first (silent) appearance in 1957Andre Franquin who was then in charge of Spirou et Fantasio, th...
