A new album by Gaston Lagaffe in November after many adventures.
08/22/2023, 19:0622.08.2023, 15:21
More “entertainment”
New Gaston Lagaffe album out soon.Image: DR
Volume 22 of Gaston Lagaffe’s adventures will be released on November 22 after a dispute that almost prevented the album from seeing the light of day, the Dupuis editions announced on Tuesday.
Contained in a publication program sent to the press by the Belgian publisher, The Return of Lagaffe (48 pages) is signed by the Canadian caricaturist Delaf (in marital status Marc Delafontaine). The latter had taken over the series with the intention of being extremely respectful of the spirit of the character’s creator, Belgian André Franquin (1924-1997).
A complicated exit
However, Franquin’s daughter and beneficiary Isabelle had asked for the project to be stopped as soon as she was informed in early 2022. She insisted on her father:
“He expressed his wish over and over again during his lifetime that Gaston would not want to outlive him under another designer’s direction.”
To settle the dispute, Editions Dupuis and Isabelle Franquin had opted for private arbitration, in this case that of a lawyer from Brussels. He had concluded in May 2023 that Gaston Lagaffe could be reborn “provided you obtain Isabelle Franquin’s prior consent”. From the point of view of the beneficiary, “any refusal (…) must be justified for ethical or artistic reasons”, the arbitrator specified.
However, Isabelle Franquin’s advice had responded that in the event of publication of this new comic, any plot would still be possible without prior transmission to the original author’s daughter.
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The epitome of an antihero
Gaston Lagaffe, an office worker of legendary laziness and clumsiness, is a 1957 created antihero who personalizes resistance to injunctions to productivity and conformity.
Delaf claimed to have a particular method of capturing the character: he carefully cataloged all of her settings and characteristics, as well as all of her surroundings, before immersing her in more modern situations. (yeah/at)
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