Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Gaston Lagaffe, the most famous blunderer in the history of comics, is getting made into a movie!



Pef has chosen to transpose Gaston into the world of today. The blundering inventive hero does not work in the journal of Spirou but in a start-up, In the good little corner, which "makes useful the useless", buys back stocks of poor workmanship to recycle.

He even installed a zipline in the office

An homage collection of tribute cartoons of Gaston was released last week http://www.gastonlagaffe.com/actualite/28-de-nombreux-auteurs-contemporains-rendent-hommage-a-gaston.html




Fans of the comics will reconnect with the charismatic characters that surround Gaston Lagaffe. Prunelle, his hierarchical superior always upset, is interpreted by the director himself. The infamous police officer Longtarin, he takes the features of Arnaud Ducret .

The fans will also recognize some of Gaston Lagaffe's most delirious inventions.
The tie knot machine, the ashtray with automatic emptying system, the filing cabinet, the roof of the company turned into a mini-golf,  "The gaffophone, its destructive musical instrument, asked us for three weeks of discussion !," says a decorator, "The zipline system to transport its objects from one room to another was also a headache."

Movie to be released April 2018.

In 2009, there were some 7 minute animated films made, and a lot of them can be watched on Youtube



http://www.laprovence.com/article/sorties-loisirs/4423165/menfin-gaston-lagaffe-tourne-a-marseille.html
http://www.gastonlagaffe.com/actualite/28-de-nombreux-auteurs-contemporains-rendent-hommage-a-gaston.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2017/04/27/dans-le-film-gaston-lagaffe-de-pef-le-gaffeur-ne-travaillera_a_22058323/?utm_hp_ref=fr-bd


2 comments:

  1. Jesse, I totally enjoyed all the recent art posts, These folks were/are amazing talents. Thanks very much for sharing them

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    1. If you enjoy them half as much as I've enjoyed finding them and setting up the posts, that's doing mighty good! I stumbled across two of them today, after the pin up artist turned up something that led me to the others, the Gaston, and the Starter.

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