''Les Dingodossiers'' is a humorous comic series created by French artists

Marcel Gotlib Marcel Gottlieb (14 July 1934 – 4 December 2016), known professionally as Gotlib, was a French comics creator and publisher. Through his own work and the magazines he co-founded, '' L'Écho des savanes'' and '' Fluide Glacial'', he was a key ...

(cartoonist) and

René Goscinny René Goscinny (; ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the ''Asterix, Astérix'' comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Born in France to a Jewish family from Poland, he spent his chil ...

(writer) first published in ''

Pilote ''Pilote'' (), for a while subtitled ''the magazine of Asterix and Obelix'' (French: ''Le Journal D’Astérix et D’Obélix'' ) was a French comics magazine published from 1959 to 1989. Showcasing most of the major Franco-Belgian comics, French ...

'' magazine from 1965 to 1967. It's a

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of educational comics.

Style

The term ''dingodossiers'' is a

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of the two French words ''dingo'' or ''dingue'' ("mad") and ''dossiers''. As the title suggests, the series is composed of didactic dossiers with a very humorous tone. Each story consists of two to four strips drawn in black and white. The strips deal with stereotypes and clichés and depict everyday life in a caricatured way. The stories are parodies and comic reports of scenes from marital and family life, work life, relations with neighbours, and holidays. A recurring character is Chaprot, a dunce pupil.

Publication history

Marcel Gotlib and René Goscinny met in 1965 when Gotlib joined the ''

'' magazine whose leader was Goscinny. Together they launched the ''Dingodossier'' series, with 169 stories published in ''Pilote'' between 1965 and 1967. In 1967 Goscinny, who had given up many series to become involved in the successful ''

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'' series, invited Gotlib to continue the series on his own. Gotlib decided to discontinue the series in 1968 and launched the series ''

Rubrique-à-Brac ''Rubrique-à-Brac'' is a humorous comic strip series created in 1968-1972 by Gotlib. The title is a portmanteau of the French language, French words ''rubrique'' (section) and bric-a-brac, ''bric-à-brac''. Initially published in ''Pilote'' maga ...

'', very similar to the ''Dingodossiers'', but with a slightly different tone and some innovations. Gotlib declared that if the ''Dingodossiers'' series hadn't existed, maybe he would not have not created the RAB series. Three albums were published by Dargaud: ''Les Dingodossiers Tome 1'' in 1967 and ''Les Dingodossiers Tome 2'' in 1972, then ''Les Dingodossiers Tome 3'' in 1995 composed of previously unpublished strips. In 2005, a compendium was published by Dargaud.

References

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