Gaston Lagaffe retrieved by his Boss

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

The bande dessinée is a Franco-Belgian specialty. The humor is often nice and subtle, as opposed to the brutality of some comics from other countries.

The characters of André Franquin are popular and appreciated. Artcurial sells in Paris on March 14 an original sheet in China ink made in 1981, 61 x 37 cm. Ten images are splitted into four strips, constituting the full story.

We see the do-nothing clerk Gaston Lagaffe (Gaston the Blunder) busy reading a magazine showing the journey of the Voyager spacecraft in the solar system. He dreams he is on a satellite of Saturn, with his always admiring colleague m'oiselle Jeanne (miss Jane). The story ends badly: the boss of Gaston and Jeanne, dressed as an astronaut, just look for them to treat the late mail. The scoop is that the mail to be treated is so abundant that it is constituting ... the rings of Saturn.

This little wonder that only French speaking people will appreciate is estimated 50 K €.

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

The result is in line with expectations: 54 K € premium included.