En direct de la gaffe

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publisher=Dupuis
date=1974
series="Gaston Lagaffe"
origlanguage=French
origpublication=Spirou
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origisbn= 2-8001-0370-1
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writers=Franquin
artists=Franquin Delporte
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previssue= "Gare aux gaffes du gars gonflé"
nextissue= "Le lourd passé de Lagaffe"

"En direct de la gaffe", written and drawn by Franquin and Delporte, is an album of the original "Gaston Lagaffe" series, numbered R4. It is made up of 44 pages and was published by Dupuis. It consists of a series of one-strip gags.

tory

This album is made up of small-sized strip and article relating Gaston' blunders. All the gags and articles, entitled "En direct de la rédaction", wrote by Yvan Delporte for the Gaston Lagaffe series are grouped in this album. It is also constituted of Spirou covers.Many new characters are introduced, such as Jules Soutier , Bertrand Labévue, Beaucoudeau and Mélanie Molaire. The Gaffophone also appear for the first time.

Background

This album was expected to be the last album of reprinting. The album reprinted were numbered with a "R" indicate it was a re-publication. It is explained in the first page of the album that any "Gaston Lagaffe" album #5 nor R5 would never exist, because an album #6 had previously been published, and the re-publications were said to be finished. However, this annoucement was wrong, for much later, in 1986, an album R5 was published, consisting of strips previously unpublished in albums.

References

* [http://www.gastonlagaffe.com/sitefr/albums/alb.php?serie=class&album=6 Gaston Lagaffe classic series] on the official website
* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/series2/gaston.htm Publication in Spirou] on bdoubliées.com.

External links

* [http://www.gastonlagaffe.com/sitefr/index.php Official website] fr_icon