What the... Gaston!
Easy going Gaston Lagaffe was created by André Franquin for the February 28, 1957 issue of Le journal de Spirou as a light hearted glimpse of life behind the scenes at the paper. Gaston is a blundering office clerk with a great sense of humour and remarkable lack of common sense who spends a lot of time napping, playing and avoiding work. His only response to his outstanding ability to botch, bungle and blunder ( “Lagaffe-The blunder”) is , “M’enfin!” (“What the…?”) .
A running gag in the series is the signing, or in Gastons case the non-signing of De Mesmaeker’s contracts: “Whatever’s in the contracts is irrelevant. What we want to see is how Gaston will prevent them from being signed.” says Franquin. All attempts to get the contracts signed are hysterically thwarted, and even when signed, he accidentally destroys them. Gaston always manages to wind Mesmaeker up, causing him to storm out,
or even pass out in frustration.
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