History ComicBook / Cubitus

In the 1980s the comic strip series was adapted into in an anime series called ''Anime/{{Wowser}}''. This increased the comic strip's notability and popularity and even inspired a short-lived magazine. The AnimatedAdaptation added two extra characters who didn't appear in the comic strip at all, Beatrice -- an old woman with glasses- and Linda Lovely -- an attractive young blonde. Compared to the original however, the cartoon series was pretty much straightforward kids' entertainment, while the comic strip has a very peculiar eccentric and often surreal style that most younger kids wouldn't really understand at times.

* MonaLisaSmile: One gag has Cubitus change a painting Sémaphore made of the ''Art/MonaLisa'' by drawing his own face on it.

* MonaLisaSmile: One gag has Cubitus change a painting Sémaphore made of the Mona Lisa by drawing his own face on it.

* BlindingBangs: In his earliest appearances, when he was still a dog walking around on all fours, Cubitus' eyes were hidden beneath his body hair.

* BadassMoustache: Sémaphore.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The early Cubitus comic strip depict Cubitus more like a real bobtail by having him walk around on all fours. Also, his hair hung in front of his eyes.

* BadassMoustache: Sémaphore
* BigEater: Cubitus

* TheYellowMShoutOut: In ''L'ami ne fait pas le moine'', pages 38 and 39 of the comic book were spoofed.

In the 1980s the comic strip series was adapted into in an anime series called ''Anime/{{Wowser}}''. This increased the comic strip's notability and popularity and even inspired a short-lived magazine. The AnimatedAdaptation added two extra characters who didn't appear in the comic strip at all, Beatrice -- an old woman with glasses- and Linda Lovely -- an attractive young blonde. Compared to the original, however, the cartoon series was pretty much straightforward kids' entertainment, while the comic strip has a very peculiar eccentric and often surreal style that most younger kids wouldn't really understand at times.

In the 1980s the comic strip series was adapted into in an anime series called Anime/{{Wowser}}. This increased the comic strip's notability and popularity and even inspired a short-lived magazine. The AnimatedAdaptation added two extra characters who didn't appear in the comic strip at all, Beatrice- an old woman with glasses- and Linda Lovely- an attractive young blonde. Compared to the original, however, the cartoon series was pretty much straightforward kids' entertainment, while the comic strip has a very peculiar eccentric and often surreal style that most younger kids wouldn't really understand at times.

!!Tropes found in "Cubitus":

** This gets even more ridiculous when he shows off the insides of it to the skeptical Sénéchal, as it also features 12 floors (since Cubitus is superstitious) and a pathway leading to Niagara Falls.

* ContinuityNod: One gag featured in ''Tu te la coules douce'' has Cubitus list to Sénéchal all the times the latter has humiliated him in some fashion, while numbering the amount of times specific incidents were inflicted. [[TheLongList This goes on for several panels]].

* ImpossibleTask: In one gag Cubitus engages Sénéchal in a battle of knowledge. He asks him several increasingly difficult questions, but to his frustration Sénéchal knows the answer to each one of them. Finally Cubitus gets fed up with this and asks the cat whether he is able to count to five in three seconds? Sénéchal tries, but fails, to which Cubitus shouts: ''Too late!!'' and smashes his head in with a sledge hammer appearing out of nowhere. Then he says: ''He couldn't possibly know EVERYTHING!''.

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* AnimalJingoism and AnimalStereotypes: Cubitus and Sénéchal are rivals because they're a dog and a cat. Cubitus enjoys digging up and digging away bones.

* HumanlikeFootAnatomy / HumanlikeHandAnatomy: Sénéchal and Cubitus both have no problems walking upright on two legs and they are also capable of using their front paws as hands.

* AnimalStereotypes: Cubitus and Sénéchal are rivals because they're a dog and a cat. Cubitus enjoys digging up and digging away bones.

* ImpossibleTask: In one gag Cubitus engages Sénéchal in a battle of knowledge. He asks him several increasingly difficult questions, but to his frustration Sénéchal knows the answer to each one of them. Finally Cubitus gets fed up with this and asks the cat whether he is able to count to five in three seconds? Sénéchal tries, but fails, to which Cubitus shouts: ''Too late!!'' and smashes his head in with a sledge hammer appearing out of nowhere. Then he says: ''He couldn't possible know EVERYTHING!''.

!!Tropes:

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* ShoutOut: Dupa enjoyed making shout-outs to history, comic strips, old movies,... and a lot of stuff his youtful target audience wouldn't get, including Music/TheBeatles, Creator/TheMarxBrothers, Franchise/{{Tintin}}, ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer, ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}, ComicStrip/{{Becassine}}, Creator/GeorgesMelies, Film/KingKong, history... the list goes on. For example, one gag features Cubitus in the role of Creator/MichelangeloBuonarotti, trying to think up new things to paint, and one of them is Tintin.