Description: André Franquin (French: [fʁɑ̃kɛ̃]; 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best-known creations are Gaston and Marsupilami. He also produced the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1946 to 1968, a period seen by many as the series' golden age. Biography Franquin was born in Etterbeek in 1924.[1] Although he started drawing at an early age, Franquin got his first actual drawing lessons at École Saint-Luc in 1943. A year later, however, the school was forced to close down because of the war and Franquin was then hired by Compagnie belge d'actualités (CBA), a short-lived animation studio in Brussels. It is there he met some of his future colleagues: Maurice de Bevere (Morris, creator of Lucky Luke), Pierre Culliford (Peyo, creator of the Smurfs), and Eddy Paape. Three of them (minus Peyo) were hired by Dupuis in 1945, following CBA's demise. Peyo, still too young, would only follow them seven years later. Franquin started drawing covers and cartoons for Le Moustique, a weekly magazine about radio and culture.[1] He also worked for Plein Jeu, a monthly scouting magazine. During this time, Morris and Franquin were coached by Joseph Gillain (Jijé), who had transformed a section of his house into a workspace for the two young comics artists and Will. Jijé was then producing many of the comics that were published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou, including its flagship series Spirou et Fantasio. The team he had assembled at the end of the war is often referred to as La bande des quatre (lit. "The Gang of Four"), and the graphical style they would develop together was later called the Marcinelle school, Marcinelle being an outskirt of the industrial city of Charleroi south of Brussels where Spirou's publisher Dupuis was then situated.
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Book Title: Gaston Lagaffe Gaston 11
Book Series: Gaston Lagaffe
Original Language: French
Item Length: 9 in
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Format: Album
Language: French
Item Height: 11 in
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated
Topic: Humor
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Dupuis
Intended Audience: Young Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: Revised Edition
California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
Publication Year: 1997
Type: Picture Book
Era: 1970s
Illustrator: Franquin
Author: Franquin
Genre: Comics
Country/Region of Manufacture: Belgium
Item Weight: 15 oz
Number of Pages: 46