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''Gaston'' is a 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. Gaston is very popular in large parts of Europe (especially in Belgium and France) and has been translated in over a dozen languages, but except for a few pages by Fantagraphics in the early 1990s (as ''Gomer Goof''), there is no published English translation. Since the 1980s Gaston has appeared on a wide variety of merchandise. == Publication history == André Franquin who was then in charge of ''Spirou et Fantasio'', the primary series of ''Spirou'' magazine, first introduced the character Gaston in issue n°985, published February 28, 1957.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Dossiers-28 février 1957 )〕〔(Image of Spirou n°985 Gaston page )〕 The initial purpose was to fill up empty spaces in the magazine and offer a (comically artificial) glimpse of life behind-the-scenes at the paper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Franquin raconte Gaston )〕 His arrival was carefully orchestrated with a teasing campaign over several months, based on ideas by Franquin, Yvan Delporte and Jidéhem, with mysterious blue footprints in the margins of the magazine. For the ''Spirou'' issue N°1000 cover, Franquin drew 999 heads of Spirou, and one of Gaston, and the first ''Gaston'' full-page gag was featured in a bonus supplement.〔(Plate1 of Spirou n°1000 cover )〕〔(Plate2 of Spirou n°1000 cover )〕〔(Gaston-Spirou n°1000 supplement Gaston gag n°1 )〕 In the context of the fictive story evolving at the magazine offices, the man behind the footprints, Gaston, finally turned up for a memorable job interview, telling the bemused Spirou that he didn't remember with whom or for what he had been called. Fantasio, functioning as the magazine's opinionated face of signed editorials, subsequently announced in a formal communiqué that Gaston would be the first "Hero-without-a-job". Gaston's blunders continued during a stressful and frustrating period for Fantasio, pushing him to go on a 4-week strike and eventually a vacation, initiating the story ''Vacances sans histoires''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Spirou année 1957 )〕 From ''Spirou'' issue n°1025, the single-panel gags were replaced with ''Gaston'' strips running at the bottom of the editor's pages, signed by both Jidéhem and Franquin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Dossiers-28 novembre 1957 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Dossiers-5 décembre 1957 )〕 These ran until 1959 when Gaston acquired a weekly half-page, which lasted until the mid-60s when the ''Gaston Lagaffe'' gags grew to full-page.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =les différentes époques )〕 A full length comic featuring Gaston has not yet been published in English. In 1971 4 gags of Gaston were published in the Thunderbirds Annual 1971. Gaston was christened Cranky Franky for this series. In the early Nineties Fantagrahics translated about a half a dozen gags into English and Gaston was rechristened Gomer Goof for this one. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaston (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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