Gaston andre franquin biography
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FRANQUIN, GASTON LaGAFFE AND DIE LAUGHING
Biography, Book Reviews, and Some History
Mind the Goof!
By Andre Franquin
46 8.5x11-inch pages, color; 2017 Cinebook English translation of Gaston: Gare aux gaffes, paperback, $11.95
I’VE BEEN WAITING for this one for almost 60 years.
Gaston LaGaffe in English. And now it’s here.
Gomer goof
My love affair with Franquin began in about 1962 in France when I was still bounding over the heaving main (or vice versa) whilst in the U.S. Navy.
On liberty one day when we were anchored at Marseilles, I was strolling along the waterfront when I noticed a bookstore.
It was on the corner, facing, on one side, the waterfront, the other, a street with a tree-lined meridian. A quiet, peaceful looking venue. I didn’t go into bookstores much in those days: mostly, the books in them were in languages I didn’t read well, so I concentrated on
