Titeuf

For the film based on the comic, see Titeuf (film).

Titeuf is a Swiss comic series created by Zep which was adapted into a 2001 French animated TV series,^[1]^[2] a 2011 French film^[3] and appears in the dedicated Franco-Belgian comics magazine Tchô!.

Publication history

Titeuf was initially published in the fanzine Sauve qui peut ("Run for your lives") and noticed by Glénat executive Jean-Claude Camano.^[4] Zep joined Glénat in 1992 and Titeuf eventually became one of France's most popular comics.^[5] The first Titeuf book Dieu, le sexe et les bretelles (God, Sex And Suspenders) appeared in 1993 and sold only a few thousand copies, but the subsequent books gradually won over a colossal readership, and the series is now considered the greatest moneymaker in the French comics market.^[6] The series was adapted into an animated TV series in 2001, initially broadcast on Canal J.^[7] By 2008, Titeuf was the comic series with by far the largest publication in France, with over 1.8 million copies per year, three times the number of the second most popular series.^[8]

Characters

Titeuf: the main character. He's an 8-year-old boy with a blonde cowlick. His best friend is Manu.
Roger: Titeuf's father. He's 35 years old.
Anne-Mathilde: Titeuf's mother. She's 33 years old. She wears a black turtleneck and a pair of tan pants.
Zizie: Titeuf's 1-year-old little sister. She first appears in the seventh book.
Aunt Monica: Titeuf's aunt. She's a blonde-haired woman, and she first appears in the second book.
Julie: Titeuf's redheaded cousin. She first appears in the fourth book.

English translation

Translated as Tootuff, it appeared for a short while during 2005 in The Dandy comic in the UK. It is also a cartoon on GMTV's Toonattik and Action Stations slots, first transmitted on Cartoon Network UK in August 2005.

Bibliography

Dieu, le sexe et les bretelles (God, sex and Suspenders), 1992
L'Amour, c'est pô propre... (Love isn't clean) , 1993
Ça épate les filles... (It impresses the girls), 1994
C'est pô juste... (It's unfair) , 1995
Titeuf et le derrière des choses (The rear side of things), 1996
Tchô, monde cruel (Bye, cruel world), 1997
Le miracle de la vie (The miracle of life) , 1998
Lâchez-moi le slip ! (Get off my case!), 2000
La loi du préau (The law of the playground), 2002
Nadia se marie, (Nadia's wedding), 2004
Mes meilleurs copains (My best friends), 2006
Le sens de la vie (The meaning of life), 2008
À la folie (Folly !), 2012

Sources

Titeuf albums Bedetheque (French)

Footnotes