Gaston (comics)

Gaston is, a comic series and its main character from the Spirou magazine. It was drawn by André Franquin from February 1957 until his death in 1997. In francophone original figure 's full name is Gaston Lagaffe. La gaffe in German means " the blunder ", "the clumsiness ", " the slip" or " derailment ".

Content

Gaston is an office assistant in the editorial department of the ( actually existing ) publishing house Dupuis or in the German edition of the Caucasus or the publisher Carlsen -Verlag. In his first appearances, he stood around easily and thus confused the employees. Later, he appeared in scenes of the series Spirou and Fantasio, only to have its own series. In the series of the daily life of the editorial is being satirized.

His superiors Demel and Fantasio are constantly trying to come up with the business partner Bruchmüller to conclude enormously important contracts, but always when their efforts seem to be successful, makes them Gaston in many ways unintentionally a spanner in the works.

Gaston falls on with his unusual, mostly failed experiments and tinkering and by his laziness. He is depicted as a lovable slob and misunderstood genius. In his spare time he enjoys playing musical instruments, including guitar, trumpet and the loud absurd, he invented " Gaffophone " ( German: " Gastophon " or " Brontosaurophon ").

In the course of the stories he has several pets: a hedgehog, a cat, a black-headed gull named Har - Har, a goldfish named Blubblub and a mouse family that lives in a file folder. In one episode, he even wins a cow, for which he anstreicht his office green. In another, he saves in a restaurant a lobster before cooking pot. All these animals cause vortices and chaos in the newsroom. In another episode him the parrot his aunt is entrusted and even a turtle patrol the previous sergeant Knusel unharmed falling from the 6th floor of the Carlsen publishing house upside down.

Even with Sergeant Knusel Gaston has a lot to do. Usually he is depicted as a police officer, which is only set out to distribute to Gaston speeding tickets and the like. Part Gaston has a disadvantage, but also Knusel gets off his fat, for example, as Gaston's Seagull at the last moment throws a coin into the parking machines.

Characters

  • Mr. Carlsen ( in the original: Monsieur Dupuis ), the head of the publishing house, which makes its appearance, but only either by phone, or from which one never sees the face (first physical appearance in Sketch No. 207)
  • The editor Fantasio (original also Fantasio ), which according to Sketch # 480 from the series excretes (internal grounds that he was now in the field )
  • The supervisor Demel ( in the original: Léon prunelle ), which 481 Fantasio as managing editor replaces in Sketch No. ( first appearance Sketch No. 207)
  • The choleric business partner Mr. Bruchmüller ( Aimé de Mesmaeker ) ( first appearance Sketch No. 109 )
  • Miss spin ( Mademoiselle Jeanne ) who is in love with Gaston, admired and adored ( first appearance Sketch No. 224)
  • The artist Krause ( Yves Lebrac ) ( first appearance Sketch No. 207)
  • The accountant Mr. Bolte (Joseph Boulier ) ( first appearance Sketch No. 195)
  • Policeman Knusel (Joseph Longtarin ) ( first appearance Sketch No. 191)
  • Alfons ( Jules -de- chez- Smith -en -face ), a buddy of Gaston, who has his office right across the street (first physical appearance Sketch No. 458 )
  • Felix Pannemann / Knoop ( Bertrand Labévue ), Gaston's cousin, who ( as Franquin ) tends to depression ( first appearance Sketch No. 347 )

Publication history

In Germany, the Gaston comic books were first printed from the Caucasus publisher in Fix and Foxi. Gaston was there yo-yo, and he was a strong stuttering angedichtet. From the early 80s Gaston appeared in Carlsen Verlag (temporarily in the Semic division), this time with the correct translation. The disadvantage was the utter confusion in the chronology of this publication. This problem was finally solved with the new edition of Collected disasters from 1993. The last German edition of this edition was published until 2001 when Carlsen Comics.

Since July 2008, the Carlsen publishing the individual volumes on a monthly basis now published new. The translation has been revised in order to bring it as closer to the original and to unify the names, which partly went into the series with each other. In addition, once the content has been revised. So these are some sketches, which were seen in previous editions only in newly drawn versions, has now been restored to their original versions; the additional material, some never released in Germany, was placed at the chronologically correct locations and revised the coloration and unifies the Lettering.

Volumes

  • Gaston 2 volumes ( Carlsen, 1981)
  • Gaston 10 volumes with purple cover ( Carlsen / Semic, 1982-1984 )
  • Gaston 16 volumes with yellow spine ( Carlsen, 1985-1993 )
  • Carlsen pocket tape 1, 14, 24, 28, 33 ( Carlsen 1990-1991)
  • Gaston - Collected disasters 19 volumes, hardcover with red spine ( Carlsen, 1993-2001)
  • Gaston - Collected disasters 19 volumes, soft cover with yellow spine ( Carlsen, 1998-2001)
  • Gaston - F.A.Z. Comic classics, Volume 18 Hardcover ( FAZ, 2005)
  • 40 years Carlsen Comics: Gaston Jubläums Special Edition ( Carlsen, 2007)
  • Gaston - Collected disasters - new edition (also Gaston New Look ) 19 volumes, soft cover with yellow- red spine ( Carlsen, from June 2008 )

Awards

The comic book series has been awarded many prizes, including the Special Prize for outstanding life's work of the International Comic Salon Erlangen.

→ see also: The 100 books of the century by Le Monde ( 98th place )

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