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Spirou nr 985 to 1028 February 28, 1957. A joyful birth on February 19, 1957 in the Franquin family. Daughter Isabelle is born. 1957 - A memorable birth on February 28, 1957 in the weekly magazine Spirou (number 985), Gaston Lagaffe, "hero without work" enters the weekly without a word of explanation, surrounded only by blue footsteps. The first name Gaston (Guust) is an idea of Spirou editor-in-chief Yvan Delporte. Lagaffe (Flater) is a Franquin addition. Graphically, Guust's head is based on that of the farmer Snuffy Smith, a newspaper comic that Franquin got to know during his stay in the United States. There are also elements of a Mexican cartoon character who was too lazy to work and had a cigarette dangling in his mouth. Guust is supposed to brighten up editorial pieces ... or ruin them.
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