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Flup, Nénesse, Poussette and Cochonnet


Hergé, the Belgian comics author best known for The Adventures of Tintin, also created a number of short-lived, lesser-known comic strips.

L'Extraordinaire Aventure de Flup, Nénesse, Poussette et Cochonnet (The Extraordinary Adventure of Flup, Nénesse, Poussette and Cochonnet) was a comic strip drawn by Hergé but written by a sports reporter. It was about a boy, his friend, his little sister and her toy inflatable pig. It was published in Le Petit Vingtième from November 1, 1928, to March 7, 1929. The series was published in text comics format, but despite putting text below the images the characters still made use of speech balloons.

Le Sifflet (The Catcall) was a satirical Brussels weekly paper for which Hergé drew seven one-page shorts from December 1928 to May 1929. The first two, published on pages 6 and 7 of Le Sifflet's 30 December 1928 issue, were the very first strips Hergé drew in the American style which used word balloons instead of the traditional European text comics style of captions under the panels. One of them was called Year's End Feast! (French: Réveillon!) and was about an oyster restaurant where the customers got defrauded. The other of those first two American-style strips was The Innocent Little Child's Christmas (French: La Noël du petit enfant sage) which was about a little Belgian boy (who resembles Tintin) and his foolish white terrier (who looks identical to Snowy). He published five more similar strips within the next six months.

Fred and Mile (French: Fred et Mile) is a comic strip created in 1931. Hergé drew it for the Catholic newspaper Mon Avenir (My Future), a paper meant for future members of a Catholic action group. Only one strip was published, called Forewarned is Forearmed! (French: Un prévenu en vaut deux!, literally "A forewarned person is worth two [others]").

Fred and Mile are two boys who very closely resemble the protagonists of Hergé's Quick & Flupke series. The final frame of Fred and Mile is almost identical to the final frame in the Quick & Flupke gag Unbreakable.


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