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4.2/5 Goodreads Writers Franquin Published in Spirou ISBN 2-8001-0370-1 Date 1974 | 7.6/10 SensCritique Series Gaston Lagaffe Artists Franquin Delporte Language French Originally published 1974 Followed by Le lourd passé de Lagaffe Publisher Dupuis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by Gare aux gaffes du gars gonflé Similar André Franquin books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
En direct de la gaffe, written and drawn by Franquin and Delporte, is an album of the original Gaston Lagaffe series, numbered R4. It is made up of 44 pages and was published by Dupuis. It consists of a series of one-strip gags.
Contents
Story
This album is made up of small-sized strip and article relating Gaston' blunders. All the gags and articles, entitled "En direct de la rédaction", wrote by Yvan Delporte for the Gaston Lagaffe series are grouped in this album. It is also constituted of Spirou covers.Many new characters are introduced, such as Jules Soutier, Bertrand Labévue, Beaucoudeau and Mélanie Molaire. The Gaffophone also appear for the first time.
Inventions
Background
This album was expected to be the last album of reprinting. The album reprinted were numbered with a "R" indicate it was a re-publication. It is explained in the first page of the album that any Gaston Lagaffe album #5 nor R5 would never exist, because an album #6 had previously been published, and the re-publications were said to be finished. However, this announcement was wrong, for much later, in 1986, an album R5 was published, consisting of strips previously unpublished in albums.