I think Gaston is still unavailable in English - I'm not such a fan of Spirou and Fantasio but I recently bought Cinebook's "The Marsupliami Thieves" as it was the only Franquin book available in English, sadly.
Like you, I enjoy Gaston significantly more than Spirou; he also has a more adult work called Idées noires (Dark Thoughts), which is filled with great (and often disturbing) dark humor. I
Franquin's Idées Noires is one of my all time favourite comics, and one of the one pagers dealt with the death penalty (France still had the death penalty at the time it was first published in Spirou in the last 70's), expressing a similarly effective approach to making it unpalatable.. [1].
A rough translation (my French is rusty - been a decade or two): "The law is clear: Anyone who intentional
It sounds crazy to me that Franquin's masterworks (Gaston and Idées Noires) were not yet translated in English yet ! For sure it would not appeal to US mass market but certainly there is also a small connoisseur market out there ?
Well put. Apart from the lengthy threads here regularly on how flawed the very notion of free will that's necessary to even justify this focus on vengeance, I absolutely agree with you that if you're going to argue for vengeance and have a moral leg to stand on you better at least not argue for such an outcome.
I like to point to this page from Franquin's Idées Noires (finally in English as "Die
我觉得 Gaston 好像还是没有英文版——我不是特别粉 Spirou and Fantasio，但我最近买了 Cinebook 的《The Marsupilami Thieves》，因为遗憾的是，这是 Franquin 唯一有英文版的书了。 和你一样，比起 Spirou 我要更喜欢 Gaston 得多；他还有一部更成人的作品叫《Idées noires》（暗黑想法），里面充满了绝妙（而且常常让人脊背发凉）的黑色幽默。我
I think Gaston is still unavailable in English - I'm not such a fan of Spirou and Fantasio but I recently bought Cinebook's "The Marsupliami Thieves" as it was the only Franquin book available in English, sadly. Like you, I enjoy Gaston significantly more than Spirou; he also has a more adult work called Idées noires (Dark Thoughts), which is filled with great (and often disturbing) dark humor. I
Franquin 的《Idées Noires》是我一直以来最喜欢的漫画之一，其中有一篇单页漫画讲的是死刑（70 年代末首次在 Spirou 上发表时，法国还没废除死刑），同样有力地表达了那种令人反胃的感觉……[1]。 粗略翻译一下（我法语荒废了——有一二十年没用了）：“法律明确规定：任何故意
Franquin's Idées Noires is one of my all time favourite comics, and one of the one pagers dealt with the death penalty (France still had the death penalty at the time it was first published in Spirou in the last 70's), expressing a similarly effective approach to making it unpalatable.. [1]. A rough translation (my French is rusty - been a decade or two): "The law is clear: Anyone who intentional
Franquin 的神作（Gaston 和 Idées Noires）居然还没被翻译成英语，这在我看来简直不可思议！诚然它可能吸引不了美国大众市场，但肯定也有一小群行家鉴赏家市场在吧？
It sounds crazy to me that Franquin's masterworks (Gaston and Idées Noires) were not yet translated in English yet ! For sure it would not appeal to US mass market but certainly there is also a small connoisseur market out there ?
说得好。除了这里经常有人发长帖讨论连证明“复仇”合理性所必需的“自由意志”概念本身有多大缺陷之外，我完全赞同你的看法：如果你要主张复仇并且还要站在道德制高点上，那你起码不该去支持这样一种结果。 我很喜欢引用 Franquin 的《Idées Noires》（终于出了英文版，名为《Die
Well put. Apart from the lengthy threads here regularly on how flawed the very notion of free will that's necessary to even justify this focus on vengeance, I absolutely agree with you that if you're going to argue for vengeance and have a moral leg to stand on you better at least not argue for such an outcome. I like to point to this page from Franquin's Idées Noires (finally in English as "Die