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GastonGaston Lagaffe (known by different names in translations, eg Guus; Viggo in Norwegian) is a fictional character invented by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin (1924 - 1997) for a humorous comic strip, 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
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surprise; for my attention had begun to wander, till it. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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