Le géant de la gaffe
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Le géant de la gaffe, written and drawn by Franquin
, is the tenth album of the original Gaston Lagaffe
series. It is composed of 52 strips previously published in Spirou
. It was published in 1972 by Dupuis
.
André Franquin
André Franquin was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series' golden age.-Franquin's beginnings:Franquin was...
, is the tenth album of the original Gaston Lagaffe
Gaston Lagaffe
Gaston is a comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the comic strip magazine, Spirou. The series focuses on the every-day life of Gaston Lagaffe, a lazy and accident-prone office junior...
series. It is composed of 52 strips previously published in Spirou
Spirou (magazine)
Spirou magazine is a weekly Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company...
. It was published in 1972 by Dupuis
Dupuis
Éditions Dupuis S.A. is a Belgian publisher of comic books and magazines.Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic albums and magazines. It is originally a French language publisher, but publishes many editions both in French...
.
Story
Le géant de la gaffe is the first album in which Franquin inserts eccentric signatures. Monsieur De Mesmaeker is less present than in previous albums.Inventions
- alcohol detector: device to mesure the rate of alcohol in the blood, it must not be exposed to fire
- electric umbrella: umbrella that can open and close pushing on the same button
- coffee-maker: personal invention that delivers very strong coffee
- graft for cactus: graft which allow cactuses to grow extremely rapidly
- spring-wire for phones: wire very elasticated, that may hurt dangerously the user
- soap: soap that blows a lot of bubbles once it is in contact with water
- automatic door: door that open automatically thanks to photoelectric cells
- heating system: system for cars installed which conducts the gas by a chemney
- spray for carburetor: an effective but polluting system
- hand-armchair : very comfortable armchair designed as a giant hand
- monorail: device linked to rails set in the ceiling to get around easily in the offices
- monorail monoplace: the same monorail, modified -because being too low, it could hurt people- but with a default in the brake system