Gaston Lagaffe is a classic gag-based Euro-comic by the legendary Belgian cartoonist Franquin. My Gaston books were among my favorite things in the world when I was 11-13 years old.
Gaston is a lazy office boy who never gets any work done at the office, mainly because he's busy with his bizarre inventions, his pet animals, and his numerous other hobbies, which include taking long naps that can last whole working days, sometimes longer. The jokes in the series are fairly predictable, but the cartooning is so great and the character is so likeable that it's impossible not to have a soft spot for the series.
Only a few Gaston strips have ever been translated into English, in a Fantagraphics anthology years ago, but someone has put a few unofficially translated strips up online.
If you need more info, then the Wikipedia article about Gaston is very informative.
Here are some of the best of the translated strips:
Sleeping at work:
More sleeping at work:
The first appearance of his notorious instrument, the Gastophone
2 comments:
good job translating the comics! I love gaston hes my favourite from franquin ^_^ i have also translated 2 or 3 strips, if you want them to post on your blog (thatd be cool!) let me know and i can send them. thanks again for your translations i enjoyed stumblin upon them!
christibrany@naver.com
The translations aren't mine, they're done by the guy whose homepage I linked to. I would like to put yours up too, but I think I'm slightly paranoid about putting too many strips online in the same place... the French publishers might notice and try to shut it down.
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