Gaston

Gaston appeared in strip form in Spirou magazine from (c. 1950) to Franquin's death in 1997. Most were republished in hardback "album" format, in several differently-numbered series. The Gaston character is an extremely popular pop culture icon in France, and since the 1980s appears on a wide variety of merchandise.

The strip started originally as single panels in Spirou magazine, which Franquin drew as a distraction from the more elaborate Spirou adventures.

See also: Franco-Belgian comics

External links

• Official site of Gaston Lagaffe (http://www.gastonlagaffe.com/gaston/index.htm)
• A page about Viggo (http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~janl/ts/viggo)