Pif le chien

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Pif le chien is a comic strip character created in 1948 for the daily L'Humanité^[1] by José Cabrero Arnal. He had as his predecessor the character of Top by the same author, who was later identified as Pif's father.^[2] It is an anthropomorphic dog that forms an antagonistic/protagonist relationship with Hercules the cat. After L'Humanité, Pif became the star series of the children's newspaper Vaillant.^[3] In 1969, Vaillant was replaced by Pif Gadget. L'Humanité and the weekly L'Humanité Dimanche also published short stories of three or four boxes in each issue.