Gaston Lagaffe is on the front page of Google France.
The character was created by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin, in issue #985 of Spirou magazine, on February 28, 1957. Gaston Lagaffe is the star of dozens of albums published in France and Belgium and a film released in 1981.
Despite this, he is virtually unknown in the US and Brazil.
(Original article: Google celebra 57 anos de Gaston Lagaffe, written by Sérgio Codespoti on February 28, 2014. Reprinted and translated with permission by UniversoHQ)
Lagaffe means “the blunder” in French. He was introduced as an office worker to show behind the scenes of the magazine. He “worked” in the Spirou offices alongside front runners Spirou and Fantasio until creators were changed. Stories often focused on his inventions and antics in the office. His crush, M’oiselle Jeanne, was another gag for the stories which originally started as one page vignettes to help the page count of the magazine. He went on to star in his own albums. Gaston appeared in a Fantagraphics Books publication under the name Gomer Goof.
Spirou the magazine launched in 1938 as one of the leading comic magazines for Franco-Belgian talent,rival only to Tintin magazine, named after Hergé’s character. Spirou has been a breeding ground for many classic comic characters including The Smurfs, Johan and Peewit, Young Spirou, Lucky Luke, Marsupilami, and, of course, Spirou and Fantasio.
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