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Input (English): Context: André Franquin (3 January 1924  5 January 1997) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known creations are "Gaston" and "Marsupilami". He also produced the "Spirou et Fantasio" comic strip from 1947 to 1969, a period seen by many as the series' golden age., François Walthéry (born 17 January 1946 in Argenteau near Liège) is a Belgian comics artist, best known for his series featuring an adventurous flight attendant, "Natacha"., The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially in France and Belgium), and Japan. The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as "The Adventures of Tintin". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s, in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938. Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century. Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World War II era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka. had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history, but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia., Gaston 19 , written and drawn by Franquin , is the last album of the Gaston Lagaffe series ever published . It was published in December 1999 , after Franquin 's death , by Marsu Productions . It has 44 pages ., Marsupilami is a comic book created by André Franquin, first published on 31 January 1952 in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine "Spirou". Since then it appeared regularly in the popular Belgian comics series "Spirou et Fantasio" until Franquin stopped working on the series in 1968 and the character dropped out soon afterward. In the late 1980s, the Marsupilami got its own successful spin-off series of comic albums, "Marsupilami", written by Greg, Yann and Dugomier and drawn by Batem, launching the publishing house Marsu Productions. Later, two animated shows featuring this character, as well as a Sega Genesis video game and a variety of other merchandise followed. The asteroid 98494 Marsupilami is named in its honour., Marsu Productions, or simply Marsu, is a publishing house and licensing and merchandising company located in Monaco, managing Franco-Belgian comics characters and copyright concerns, chiefly from the comics universe of André Franquin. The name Marsu refers to one of Franquin's best known characters the Marsupilami, but the company also handles the character universes of "Gaston Lagaffe", "Le Petit Noël", "Les Monstres", as well as François Walthéry's "Natacha" and "Le P'tit bout d'chique", and "Léonid et Spoutnika" by Yann and Philippe Bercovici among others., Subject: gaston 19, Relation: author, Options: (A) andré franquin (B) françois walthéry (C) greg (D) osamu tezuka
Output (English): andré franquin