Piffi

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Comic
title Piffi
Original title Pifou
country France
author Roger Mas
Illustrator Roger Mas and Henri Dufranne / André Schwartz
magazine Vaillant
First publication 1958

Piffi ( Pifou ) is a comic strip and its main character, created in 1958 by Roger Mas . The character first appeared in issue 685 of the French comic magazine Vaillant in an adventure of the comics Pif . The Pifou Poche , published in the 1970s, were also drawn by Henri Dufranne and André Schwartz based on the scenarios by Roger Mas. In Germany, the comic was first published as Piffi in 1978 in issue 131 of the comic magazine Yps .

Release history

After it was first published in Vaillant in 1958 in the Pif comic Tata, Tonton et Doudou , Pifou emancipated himself a few months later. In France, comic strips appeared in the series until 1987 in the comic magazine Pif Gadget and from October 1966 to July 1980 in Pifou Poche (122 episodes), in Le Journal de Pifou (1975), which appeared monthly, and from 1980 to 1990 in Pifou, le journal des 4 à 7 ans . From 1978 to 1998 the comic appeared in the German-language comic book Yps .

content

Piffi is a cartoon character based on Pif with no known ancestry. Originally, Piffi was conceived as the son of Pif with an unknown mother. Roger Mas was asked to do so. Until Brutus was created in 1964, Piffi lived with Pif and his human roommates. The anthropomorphic dog can speak even if it is essentially glop! glop! and nothing glop! expressed. It is the limited language that puppies have.

The color of the fur is different from that of Pif: the head and back are orange with black spots (with black ears), while there are white tips around the mouth, stomach and legs. He is smaller than Pif, with a smaller nasal mirror . Pifou has a large, round head, so its proportions are more like those of a child.

It coexists with the tyrannical Brutus, a lanky, articulate, and condescending bulldog who serves as a sidekick for him. Piffi is not intimidated by him, but uses the situation to his advantage. The naturally happy, idiosyncratic and unimpressive Piffi shows his approval by “Glop! Glop! ”And his disapproval by“ Nix Glop ”(“ Pas Glop! Pas Glop! ”). In rare cases, it uses two sets: "ugh" ( "! Pouah"), which means that he does not like his food, followed by (a "kchtu" onomatopoeia ), which he used to reject the same food. As a result, his ability to express himself is severely restricted in contrast to the verbose his opponent. Sometimes Piffi utters long tirades, which surprises his interlocutor.

bibliography

  • 1965: Histoires Inédites avec Pifou , éditions Vaillant
  • 1968: Pifou , coll. "Les rois du rire" n ° 5, éditions Vaillant
  • 1969: Pifou , coll. "Les rois du rire" n ° 8, éditions Vaillant
  • 1978: La Lampe de baladin , éditions Vaillant, 1978
  • 1986: Glop, Glop, Gloper , coll. "Pif et ses amis", éditions Vaillant
    • 1995: New edition by éditions Soleil in 1995
  • 1987: Histoires de rire , coll. "Pif / La Farandole"
    • New edition by éditions Soleil in 1995

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henri Dufranne on lambiek.net
  2. ↑ http://www.ypsfanpage.de/comics/index1.php
  3. ↑ Interview with R. Mas in Pif issue 746 (1984) on the 25th anniversary of Piffi
  4. ↑ Lesanneesvaillant

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