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Information:  - 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.  - 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 .  - 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.  - 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.  - 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.    After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'gaston 19' exhibits the relationship of 'characters'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - character  - fantasio  - spirou  - superman  - tintin
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fantasio


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Information:  - Mary Kiffmeyer (born December 29, 1946) is a Minnesota politician. She served as Minnesota Secretary of State from 1999 to 2007 and now serves in the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, she represents District 30, which includes parts of Hennepin, Sherburne, and Wright counties.  - The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house of the Legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are 134 members, twice as many as the Minnesota Senate. Floor sessions are held in the north wing of the State Capitol in Saint Paul.  - The Republican Party of Minnesota is a conservative political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is affiliated with the United States Republican Party.  - Ralph Robert Kiffmeyer ( born November 23 , 1945 ) is a nurse anesthetist who served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from January 8 , 1985 to January 5 , 1987 . He was elected as a Republican and represented parts of Benton and Sherburne counties . He was defeated in his bid for re-election by Democrat Jerry Bauerly . He is married to former Minnesota Secretary of State and current state senator Mary Kiffmeyer . They live near Big Lake , Minnesota .  - A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are bound together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody).    After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'ralph kiffmeyer' exhibits the relationship of 'member of political party'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - republican party  - republican party of minnesota  - union
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republican party