Lagaffe nous gâte, written and drawn by Franquin

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 eighth 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. The 59 strips of this album were previously published in Spirou

Spirou (magazine)

Spirou magazine is a weekly Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company...

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Story

Prunelle definitively replaced Fantasio. He begins to swear some "Grdidji" and the famous "Rogntudju". Several running gags feature new Gaston's inventions. Bubulle, Gaston 's fish, appears for the first time.

Inventions

• bomb against termites: bomb to be placed in each cupboard
• giant insecticide: very handful spray, but much too powerful
• cuckoo clock: cuckoo taking the form of a spaceship
• alarm clock: device which explodes when turned on
• giant fly: made of papier-mâché, wood and cardboard, the fly is too realistic and frighteing
• personal atmosphere: invented perfume for Gaston's personal office which attracts horses
• special transformer: transfomer to allow Christmas strings to flash on and off, but too much powerful, so that it has effects on neighbouring houses
• experiment to extract energy from mouvements: when one tries to open the doors in the offices, it turns out to be very difficult
• a portable version of the Gaffophone, played in the woods for M'oiselle Jeanne, resulting to a catastrophic fall of the leaves from the nearby trees

External links

• Official website