Spaghetti rings unsuspectingly at the house of Mr Strikdas to sell him some household equipment. The miracle happens, Mr. Strikdas wants to buy one on condition that he looks after an emerald for a month. The unsuspecting Spaghetti does not know that the emerald damnes everyone who comes near it. When a bunch of criminals want to make use of this, Spaghetti is in trouble.
This is already the fourteenth Spaghetti album that appeared in 1974, but it's my first acquaintance with the funny little clumsy man. I had bought it because René Goscinny wrote the scenario. Everyone knows his great sense of humor of the Lucky Luke and Asterix comics. His humor is unusually funny and this album does not disappoint. It's funny to see that anyone who comes close to Spaghetti gets an accident or an almost accident. For example, a painter falls from his scaffold and hangs on his brush while saying, "Fortunately, I use paint that dries quickly!”
The cartoon-like drawing are from Dino Attanasio. He is an experienced draughtsman. His first drawing he published in the magazine Tintin in the late 40's. Later he collaborated with Martin Lodewijk on the Johnny Goodbye comics. More realistic drawing of him was Bob Morane.
I think this is a nice album and I'm sure I will collect more Spaghetti albums.
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Humour
Links:
René Goscinny on Wikipedia
René Goscinny on the Comiclopedia
Dino Attanasio on Wikipedia
Dino Attanasio on the Comiclopedia
Spaghetti on Catawiki
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