Gai-Luron
Illustration — Introduction of Gai Luron from an origin panel. A French comics series about a melancholic Basset Hound, Gai-Luron, created on 12 July 1964 by Gotlib. Originally published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazines Vaillant and Pif Gadget, the character joined Nanar, Jujube et Piette, which Gotlib had drawn since 1962, but eventually headlined a hit series of its own.
Gai-Luron
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The album collection series started in 1975, and the second album, Gai-Luron en écrase méchamment was awarded the prize for French comical work at the Angoulême in 1976.
It follows the anthropomorphic dog Gai-Luron (whose name can be roughly translated as "Jolly Fellow", which contrasts with Gai-Luron's generally apathetic behaviour), his girlfriend Belle-Lurette and his friend Jujube the fox. The plot sometimes involves Gai-Luron and Jujube reading their fan mail, which is almost always written by the same reader, a little boy named Jean-Pierre Liégeois, or else a friend or relative of his.
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- 1.Gai-Luron ou la joie de vivre, n°1, p1. Footnote of date of creation by Gotlib
- 2.Lambiek Comiclopedia. Gotlib.
- 3.ToutEnBD. Le palmarès 1976.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 12
- Gai-Luron, collection Les Rois du rire n°10 (1969, Éditions Vaillant)right
- 1: Gai-Luron ou la joie de vivre (1975, Audie)
- 2: Gai-Luron en écrase méchamment (1975, Audie)
- 3: Gai-Luron rit de se voir beau en ce miroir (1976, Audie)
- 4: Gai-Luron et Jean-Pierre Liegeois (1976, Audie)
- 5: Gai-Luron fait rien qu'à copier (1977, Audie)
- 6: Gai-Luron ce héros au sourire si doux (1978, Audie)
- 7: Gai-Luron s'en tire par une pirouette (1979, Audie)
- 8: Gai-Luron drague comme une bête (1980, Audie)
- 9: Gai-Luron n'engendre pas la mélancolie ! (1981, Audie)
- 10: Gai-Luron tire une tronche pas possible (1982, Audie)
- La bataille navale ou Gai-Luron en slip (1986, Audie)
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