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54 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1973
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April 10, 2020
I have a 1980 hardback reprint in French from Dupuis. Originally published in 1973, this is a re-editing of the Italian format albums numbered 1 and 5. Confusingly, the album numbered 1 was the fifth to be published (in 1966), when the publisher decided to correct the fact that the first publication in the series had been unnumbered and the first to be numbered was Italian format album 2. The Italian format album 5 was therefore the 6th to be published (in 1967). Still following? The present volume was the 14th album in publishing order in this weirdly numbered series.
A much treasured childhood classic, this album just gets funnier and funnier even after all these years.
A much treasured childhood classic, this album just gets funnier and funnier even after all these years.
June 19, 2022
The French are such unique fans of literature. Their love for all things Gaston Gomer Goof proves it yet once again. This particular book is a reprint from volume three (3) of a collection of Gomer Goof cartoons and stories issued many years ago by Gaston Gomer Goof’s creators Franquin, Delporte and Jideheu. Coming in at No. 98 of Le Monde's list of the 100 most influential books of the 20th Century by our French cousins, it must have literary heft and weight. Am still trying to figure out why.
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 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 few pages by Fantagraphics in the early 1990s (as Gomer Goof), there was no English translation until Cinebook began publishing English language editions of Gaston books (again named 'Gomer Goof') in July, 2017.
Gaston Lagaffe follows the classic "gag" format of Franco-Belgian comics: one-page stories (initially half-a-page) with an often visual punchline, sometimes foreshadowed in the dialogue. The humour mixes slapstick, puns and running gags. Franquin's style is characterised by extremely nervous characters and action and very quotable dialogue. The series is much loved not only for its perfectly timed comedy, but also for its warm outlook on everyday life. Although Gaston works at Spirou magazine and one of his colleagues is a cartoonist, the series satirises office life in general rather than the publishing or comics business; Franquin himself worked at home. In the later episodes, the reader could discover a visual reference to the story in Franquin's signature at the bottom of the page.
The comic strip gags center around Gaston Lagaffe who was hired - somewhat mysteriously - as an office junior at the offices of the Journal de Spirou (the real-life publication in which the strip appeared), having wandered in cluelessly. The strip usually focuses on his efforts to avoid doing any work, and indulge instead in hobbies or naps while all around him panic over deadlines, lost mail and contracts. Initially, Gaston was an irritating simpleton, but he developed a genial personality and sense of humour. Common sense however always eludes him, and he has an almost supernatural ability to cause disasters ("gaffes") to which he reacts with his catchphrase: "M'enfin!" ("What the...?"). His job involves chiefly dealing with readers' mail. The ever-growing piles of unanswered letters ("courrier en retard") and the attempts of Fantasio and Léon Prunelle to make him deal with it or to retrieve documentation are recurring themes of the comic.
Gaston's age is a mystery – Franquin himself confessed that he neither knew nor indeed wanted to know it. Although Gaston has a job, a car and his own place, he often acts like a young teenager. In the publication of Dossier Franquin Franquin had said that Gaston is a boy in his late teens but certainly not in his twenties. He is invariably dressed in a tight polo-necked green jumper and blue-jeans, and worn-out espadrilles. It is said that his appearance was originally based on that of Yvan Delporte, editor of the Journal de Spirou at that time. Also, in his first gags, Gaston was an avid cigarette smoker, but his habit was slowly phased out.
Gaston alternates between phases of extreme laziness, when it is near impossible to wake him up, and hyper-activity, when he creates various machines or plays with office furniture. Over the years, he has experimented with cooking, rocket science, music, electronics, decorating, telecommunication, chemistry and many other hobbies, all with uniformly catastrophic results. His Peter Pan-like refusal to grow up and care about his work makes him very endearing, while his antics account for half the stress experienced by his unfortunate co-workers.
Gaston's disregard for authority or even public safety are not confined to his office — they occasionally threaten the entire city. He is not above covering road signs with advertising posters or even snowmen, reasoning that it is the only decent use that they have — being oblivious to the chaos and accidents that covering the road signs cause.
My favorite comic strips have always been Peanuts and Calvin & Hobbs and the Far Side. If your flavor tends toward this type of humor, then Gaston Gomer Goof is for you. Vive le Gaston Gomer Goof et vive la francais!
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 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 few pages by Fantagraphics in the early 1990s (as Gomer Goof), there was no English translation until Cinebook began publishing English language editions of Gaston books (again named 'Gomer Goof') in July, 2017.
Gaston Lagaffe follows the classic "gag" format of Franco-Belgian comics: one-page stories (initially half-a-page) with an often visual punchline, sometimes foreshadowed in the dialogue. The humour mixes slapstick, puns and running gags. Franquin's style is characterised by extremely nervous characters and action and very quotable dialogue. The series is much loved not only for its perfectly timed comedy, but also for its warm outlook on everyday life. Although Gaston works at Spirou magazine and one of his colleagues is a cartoonist, the series satirises office life in general rather than the publishing or comics business; Franquin himself worked at home. In the later episodes, the reader could discover a visual reference to the story in Franquin's signature at the bottom of the page.
The comic strip gags center around Gaston Lagaffe who was hired - somewhat mysteriously - as an office junior at the offices of the Journal de Spirou (the real-life publication in which the strip appeared), having wandered in cluelessly. The strip usually focuses on his efforts to avoid doing any work, and indulge instead in hobbies or naps while all around him panic over deadlines, lost mail and contracts. Initially, Gaston was an irritating simpleton, but he developed a genial personality and sense of humour. Common sense however always eludes him, and he has an almost supernatural ability to cause disasters ("gaffes") to which he reacts with his catchphrase: "M'enfin!" ("What the...?"). His job involves chiefly dealing with readers' mail. The ever-growing piles of unanswered letters ("courrier en retard") and the attempts of Fantasio and Léon Prunelle to make him deal with it or to retrieve documentation are recurring themes of the comic.
Gaston's age is a mystery – Franquin himself confessed that he neither knew nor indeed wanted to know it. Although Gaston has a job, a car and his own place, he often acts like a young teenager. In the publication of Dossier Franquin Franquin had said that Gaston is a boy in his late teens but certainly not in his twenties. He is invariably dressed in a tight polo-necked green jumper and blue-jeans, and worn-out espadrilles. It is said that his appearance was originally based on that of Yvan Delporte, editor of the Journal de Spirou at that time. Also, in his first gags, Gaston was an avid cigarette smoker, but his habit was slowly phased out.
Gaston alternates between phases of extreme laziness, when it is near impossible to wake him up, and hyper-activity, when he creates various machines or plays with office furniture. Over the years, he has experimented with cooking, rocket science, music, electronics, decorating, telecommunication, chemistry and many other hobbies, all with uniformly catastrophic results. His Peter Pan-like refusal to grow up and care about his work makes him very endearing, while his antics account for half the stress experienced by his unfortunate co-workers.
Gaston's disregard for authority or even public safety are not confined to his office — they occasionally threaten the entire city. He is not above covering road signs with advertising posters or even snowmen, reasoning that it is the only decent use that they have — being oblivious to the chaos and accidents that covering the road signs cause.
My favorite comic strips have always been Peanuts and Calvin & Hobbs and the Far Side. If your flavor tends toward this type of humor, then Gaston Gomer Goof is for you. Vive le Gaston Gomer Goof et vive la francais!
November 11, 2022
Ik denk dat de levensechte latex Guust waarschijnlijk het meest effectieve wapen moet zijn dat Flater tot dus toe heeft ingezet om psychologisch te fucken met Kwabbernoot.
Het is basically gewoon een pop die exact op Guust lijkt en constant overal opduikt in het kantoor, tot in de lades aan toe. Kwabbernoot weet nooit of hij in interactie is met de echte Guust of de valse Guust, een gegeven om gek van te worden. Over die impact op Kwabbernoot zal ik het wel nader hebben in de review van het volgende Guustalbum, maar die komt er later aan, tot dan!
Het is basically gewoon een pop die exact op Guust lijkt en constant overal opduikt in het kantoor, tot in de lades aan toe. Kwabbernoot weet nooit of hij in interactie is met de echte Guust of de valse Guust, een gegeven om gek van te worden. Over die impact op Kwabbernoot zal ik het wel nader hebben in de review van het volgende Guustalbum, maar die komt er later aan, tot dan!
July 20, 2019
Een uitstekend Guustalbum met grappen die voor het grootste deel uit halve pagina's bestaan. In dit album maakt Guusts auto zijn debuut.
May 17, 2022
Nauratti.
July 31, 2013
Horripilant!
Mir würden auch die Haare zu Berge stehen, wenn ich manche der Streiche und Pläne eines solchen Büromitarbeiters den lieben langen Tag ertragen müsste. Dass Fantasio überhaupt noch ins Büro geht, ist ein Wunder - er tut dies scheinbar auch nur noch, um seinen Assistenten Gaston zu kontrollieren, denn der nutzt jede Gelegenheit, zu schlafen, essen, kochen oder neue Erfindungen zu tätigen. Dass die Verträge mit Herrn de Mesmaeker wohl nie zu einer Unterschrift kommen ist auch mit sein Verdienst.
Äußerst unterhaltsame Halbseiter über das Büroleben, 6 Panels voller Witz und Schadenfreude, gezeichnet mit einem unglaublich dynamischen Strich, der das Tempo und den Humor der Geschichten perfektioniert.
Wer diese Geschichten noch nicht kennt und liebt, muss dringend zugreifen. Gibt es solche Leute wirklich? M'enfin!
Mir würden auch die Haare zu Berge stehen, wenn ich manche der Streiche und Pläne eines solchen Büromitarbeiters den lieben langen Tag ertragen müsste. Dass Fantasio überhaupt noch ins Büro geht, ist ein Wunder - er tut dies scheinbar auch nur noch, um seinen Assistenten Gaston zu kontrollieren, denn der nutzt jede Gelegenheit, zu schlafen, essen, kochen oder neue Erfindungen zu tätigen. Dass die Verträge mit Herrn de Mesmaeker wohl nie zu einer Unterschrift kommen ist auch mit sein Verdienst.
Äußerst unterhaltsame Halbseiter über das Büroleben, 6 Panels voller Witz und Schadenfreude, gezeichnet mit einem unglaublich dynamischen Strich, der das Tempo und den Humor der Geschichten perfektioniert.
Wer diese Geschichten noch nicht kennt und liebt, muss dringend zugreifen. Gibt es solche Leute wirklich? M'enfin!
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