After the lively controversy triggered by the announcement of the publication of an album of the hero imagined by Franquin, designed by Quebecer Delaf, the publishing house said he wanted to “find a solution that allows the work of Franquin to continue to live “.
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There will be no new album by Gaston Lagaffe in October. The Dupuis editions announced, Monday, May 16, the provisional abandonment of their controversial project consisting in relaunching “the unemployed hero”, twenty-five years after the disappearance of its creator, the Belgian André Franquin. “The Dupuis editions take the initiative to suspend the publication of Gaston Lagaffe’s new album,” announced the publishing house of Marcinelle (a Charleroi district) in a press release made public at the end of a summary in summary proceedings , in Brussels.
Belgian justice having decided to postpone to 2023 the prepublication of the gags of this remake of Gaston in the newspaper Spirou, Dupuis advocates the appeasement in this decision, without however renouncing his initial idea. The second part of the action initiated by Isabelle Franquin, the daughter and being entitled to the designer – an arbitration on the merits – must indeed decide by September of the future of the album. “Dupuis editions are certain that the next few weeks will demonstrate their right, and find a solution that allows Franquin’s work to continue to live to perpetuate the legacy of this genius of comics”, also specifies the press release.
suspicion of copy-paste
A lively controversy had ignited the ninth art after the announcement, on March 17, of the recovery of the famous office boy by Canadian designer Marc Delafontaine, alias Delaf. To the sometimes violent comments of a part of the profession, believing that Gaston was a work too intimate to be taken up one day by another author, had added the voice and the complaint, of Isabelle Franquin. She had then not failed to recall that her father did not want Gaston to survive him.
confusing resemblance on a graphic level, Delaf’s work had also earned the latter to be suspected, by fans and peers, to copy and paste details of the original Gags by Franquin, which he defended firmly.
Part of the media participations group, Dupuis considers himself in his right to revive Lagaffe as owner, since 2013, of the Monegasque law company, Marsu Productions, to which Franquin before sold his character in the early 1990s . A clause of this contract specifies as follows: “No adaptation (…) can take place without the agreement of the author who can only refuse it for ethical or artistic reasons. It is the same for any creation of A new work (…). “The publishing house was tapped on a draw of 1.2 million copies and on a novelty in bookstores every two years.