It's funny to see how Rock music and Comic strips have been growing up pretty much side-by-side and every so now and then they intertwine with the other.
So I figure it to be fun to show the earliest instances in which Rock and comic strips met.
First up, here's a comic book figure that not many people outside of Europe know of. Gaston Lagaffe (which translates into "George Blunder")
George is the lead character of a comic strip series that ran from 1957 to the mid nineties when the Cartoonist Andre Franquin died. George is a teenage boy who works in an office but "working" for him basically means slacking off, being on the phone with his buddies all day and just in general being an 18 year old beatnick.
In this comicstrip which I translated, cartoonist Franquin who was in his twenties when Rock N Roll happened, drew a couple of gags with George finding his voice in this new kind of music and using his boss to represent the parents and the elders that hated Rock when it first came out, this gag is from 1959.
Here's two more gags from that very first season 1957-1958.
In those days, electric guitars were still a novelty and a lot of boys like george would have tried to converting their acoutic guitars into electrics. This gag shows that George will never be a second Les Paul.
And what would Rock be without a driving beat? How many teenagers growing up in the fifties got themselves a drumkit in hopes of becoming a Rock N Roll drummer and pulling the birds? In George's case however his chances were thwarted as soon as he walked into the office with his brand new drumkit.
