Pif et Hercule is a French comic strip titled featuring an
anthropomorphic brown-yellow dog ("Pif") and a black-white cat
("Hercule") who, despite being best friends, are constantly fighting
in a friendship/hate relationship. The character of Pif was created by
José Cabrero Arnal for the French Communist Party newspaper
L'Humanité on 28 March 1948 and the cat Hercule was introduced two
years later. The characters' nemesis is Krapulax, who despite his
infant-like features always has a diabolical plot in store.Pif later
got his own magazine (Pif Gadget), which was very popular as not only
did it include several different comic strips, but offered a toy
gadget in each issue. He was also the magazine's mascot. Hercule also
got his own version of Spiff's magazine, this one called Super
Hercule, but his magazine was more joke-oriented. A series of 65
26-minute animated cartoons featuring the characters was produced in
1989 by Europe Images/M5 in France. Each program consisted of two
episodes. United Kingdom television station Channel 4 aired the series
in 1993.The adventures of Pif also appeared as Spiff and Hercules in
English translation in the British communist newspaper the Daily
Worker (later The Morning Star) until the mid-1970s.
anthropomorphic brown-yellow dog ("Pif") and a black-white cat
("Hercule") who, despite being best friends, are constantly fighting
in a friendship/hate relationship. The character of Pif was created by
José Cabrero Arnal for the French Communist Party newspaper
L'Humanité on 28 March 1948 and the cat Hercule was introduced two
years later. The characters' nemesis is Krapulax, who despite his
infant-like features always has a diabolical plot in store.Pif later
got his own magazine (Pif Gadget), which was very popular as not only
did it include several different comic strips, but offered a toy
gadget in each issue. He was also the magazine's mascot. Hercule also
got his own version of Spiff's magazine, this one called Super
Hercule, but his magazine was more joke-oriented. A series of 65
26-minute animated cartoons featuring the characters was produced in
1989 by Europe Images/M5 in France. Each program consisted of two
episodes. United Kingdom television station Channel 4 aired the series
in 1993.The adventures of Pif also appeared as Spiff and Hercules in
English translation in the British communist newspaper the Daily
Worker (later The Morning Star) until the mid-1970s.
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