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Gaston's rubber doll series (9 comics total) (i.imgur.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today's little translation find:
The backstory here is that in order to help shirk work, Gaston has invented a rubber doll that looks exactly like himself.

Now I get the sense that these panels didn't originally appear in sequence like this, but were sprinkled in to an album, helping to keep the trick working for as long as possible.

https://mutalieju.tumblr.com/post/113201018957/mii-riam-spirou-gaston-lagaffes-lifelike-rubber

Clicking a panel blows it up, and then right-left moves through them. Enjoy.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

https://mutalieju.tumblr.com/post/113201018957/mii-riam-spirou-gaston-lagaffes-lifelike-rubber

Absolutely hilarious, thank you for the laughs!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

IMO Franquin is the master of his genre, but I grew up with Gaston, so im probably a bit biased.

I remember having a day where I was down as a kid, and my dad taking me to bed and walking me trough a few pages of Gaston (one of the gags where hiis cat chases lebrac's eraser or something. Just going over every line in the drawings... how just those poses on itself are hilarious... I'll never forget that.

And since then I have only grown in my admiration for the magic pen of Franquin. In the image below Gaston made him little boots. The intention was good but his cat (and the rest of the office) had a harder time appreciating it.

Edit: last panel: "It's always your damn cat", "Hey, hooo, nono, he can no longer do any damage" [now that I've given him boots]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Haha, thanks for the story and the cartoon!

After I posted the link to the 'rubber Gastons,' I realised that the "scanlator" uploaded many more of these. So I've been looking through the collection for my favorites, and will post more, later.

And yeah-- I agree that a lot of the humor simply comes from the way Franquin poses the characters and adds energy to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Oh please do, the world needs more Gaston always. If I get bored later this weekend I might try and dig up some as well.

Also for those of us that speak french/dutch; there's quite the market for affordable 2nd hand Gaston/Guust comics. (i see them consistently go for 7-10 euro). For english as well, but then you gotta look a bit harder and be a bit more patient.

edit: Sorry not sorry for fanboying :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hahaha, I'm with you on that.

So, I can *mostly* understand the simple French used in Gaston (and I personally like Dutch for some reason), but since English is the base-language here, I have to make sure that either the comics content is either in English, or else spend extra-time translating the text for the readers.

I'll just say this:
IMO our community here is both a labor of love, but also takes a lot of work for me as a disabled-person. If you feel like helping out with some Gaston content? Je serais reconnaissant. :D

N'importe quand...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Gaston content at the very least.

First of all, let me just say I'm so glad this community exists. I fled 9gag only recently, and I'm still exploring lemmy as is, but I'd be happy to contribute. Cant really make any solid promises beyond Gaston (yet) as a lot in my life is changing and I'm not entirely sure where I'll end up.

But as this group has inspired me to dive more (back) into comics, I'll do what I can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I fled 9gag

🤘!

a lot in my life is changing and I’m not entirely sure where I’ll end up.

Hope things work out for you, my dude. Please revisit us anytime. <3