Gai-Luron
Gai-Luron is a French comics series about a melancholic basset hound, Gai-Luron, created on July 12, 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. 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. Synopsis. 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. Bibliography. Gai-Luron's adventures were published in 10 volumes between 1975 and 1982, and a last one, "La bataille navale...ou Gai-Luron en slip", was published as Gotlib's goodbye to the comic strip scene in 1986. Footnotes Gai-Luron