Titeuf


Titeuf is a Swiss comic series created by Zep in 1992, which was adapted into a 2001 animated TV series and a 2011 film of the same name. It also appears in the dedicated Franco-Belgian comics magazine Tchô!.

Publication history

Titeuf was initially published in the fanzine Sauve qui peut and noticed by Glénat executive Jean-Claude Camano. Zep joined Glénat in 1992 and Titeuf eventually became one of France's most popular comics. The first Titeuf book Dieu, le sexe et les bretelles 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. The series was adapted into an Italian-French animated TV series in 2001, initially broadcast on Canal J. 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.

Characters

Translated as Tootuff, it appeared for a short while during 2005 in The Dandy comic in the UK. The animated series was dubbed into English aired on GMTV's Toonattik and Nickelodeon in the UK, Jetix in the United States, Discovery Kids in Canada, and ABC3 in Australia, it also aired on Cartoon Network in Australia as well until 2005 when it was replaced with Johnny Test.

Cinema

  1. Titeuf, le film, 2011
  2. Titeuf, le film 2, 2021