''Les Dingodossiers'' is a humorous series of comics created by French artists
Marcel Gotlib
Marcel Gottlieb (14 July 1934 – 4 December 2016), known professionally as Gotlib, was a French comics artist/writer and publisher. Through his own work and the magazines he co-founded, ''L'Écho des savanes'' and ''Fluide Glacial'', he was a key ...
(cartoonist) and
René Goscinny
René Goscinny (, ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the ''Astérix'' comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Raised largely in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he attended French schoo ...
(writer) first published in ''
Pilote
Cover of the first ''Pilote'' issue #0
''Pilote'' () was a French comic magazine published from 1959 to 1989. Showcasing most of the major French or Belgian comics talents of its day the magazine introduced major series such as ''Astérix'', '' ...
'' magazine from 1965 to 1967.
Style
The term ''dingodossiers'' is a
portmanteau
A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of words
Publication history
Marcel Gotlib and René Goscinny met in 1965 when Gotlib joined the ''
Pilote
Cover of the first ''Pilote'' issue #0
''Pilote'' () was a French comic magazine published from 1959 to 1989. Showcasing most of the major French or Belgian comics talents of its day the magazine introduced major series such as ''Astérix'', '' ...
'' magazine whose leader was Goscinny. Together they launched the ''Dingodossier'' series, with 169 stories published in ''Pilote'' between 1965 and 1967. In 1967 Goscinny, who had given up many series to become involved in the successful ''
Asterix
''Asterix'' or ''The Adventures of Asterix'' (french: Astérix or , "Asterix the Gauls, Gaul") is a ''bande dessinée'' comic book book series, series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors who adventure around the world and fight th ...
'' series, invited Gotlib to continue the series on his own. Gotlib decided to stop the series in 1968 and launched the series '' Rubrique-à-Brac'', very similar to the ''Dingodossiers'', but with a slightly different tone and some innovations. Gotlib declared that if the ''Dingodossiers'' series hadn't existed, maybe he would not have not created the RAB series.
Three albums were published by Dargaud: ''Les Dingodossiers Tome 1'' in 1967 and ''Les Dingodossiers Tome 2'' in 1972, then ''Les Dingodossiers Tome 3'' in 1995 composed of previously unpublished strips. In 2005, a compendium was published by Dargaud.