Le gang des gaffeurs
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Le gang des gaffeurs, 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 thirteenth 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 46 strips previously published in Spirou
Spirou (magazine)
Spirou magazine is a weekly Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company...

. It was published in 1974 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...

.

Inventions

  • divan : highly comfortable divan, full of late readers' letters
  • giant shoe :shoe made for a shoes seller
  • a giant aquarium: a network of pipes in which water flows
  • scented aerosol: a revolutionary substance through which the light can not go
  • machine to play cup-and-ball: device badly adjusted, so that it can hit the user
  • gas generator: engine fed with fuel, but too much polluting
  • miniature plane: this plane perfectly works, but the radio control turns out to control a Russian satellite

Background

This is the last album before Franquin's breakdown. Next publications will become rarer.
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