History Webcomic / CestLaVie

** Jen also periodically does homage to great art, for instance Mona on the bridge in the style of Munch's ''The Scream'', or Donna floating to shore in a scallop shell with only hair to protect her modesty and a disgruntled nymph for company (a scowling Mona), in the style of Botticelli's ''Venus''.

* CreepyDoll: Monsieur Smokey's rather, er, ''grown-up'' fixations and preoccupations. In one arc he comes over as Serge Gainsborough to Jane Birkin, with a new female stuffed rabbit doll.

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''C'est la Vie'' may be found here:-http://www.clv-comic.com/ and here http://www.gocomics.com/comic/explore/812083/8

* {{Fanservice}}: Happens intermittently. Generally but not always featuring Donna. As ''[[http://www.gocomics.com/cestlavie/2010/03/28 here]]'' A more recent example of fairly blatant fanservice [[http://www.gocomics.com/cestlavie/2013/01/06 where Mona strips and goes naked is here]].
* FrenchJerk: Pierre. Women usually realise this not long after his [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench charm]] has run out.

* TalkingToPlants: in early strips, Mona has conversations with Carl, her pot plant, who replies that she's completely mental if she thinks a plant can sustain a conversation.

* ArtEvolution: the very first strips are necessarily cruder, and Jen's signature lettering style has yet to appear.
* ArtShift: flashback episodes where Mona returns to her childhood in France are executed in a pencil and pastels style which is wholly different to "present day" strips.

* CannotTalkToWomen: Michael.
* CompanionCube: Monsieur Smokey.

* GeniusDitz: Donna when her brain switches on and she becomes hypercompetent.

* ManipulativeBitch: Tiffany. (see also YMMV)

* NoSocialSkills: Michael. The reader might someitmes suspect Mona of lacking a few graces.
* the OddCouple: Donna and Mona.

* SmokingIsCool: Mona.

* UnkemptBeauty: Mona.

* SubvertedKidsShow:- dogsbody character Louis Lamoureux gets his big break into television - inside the [[ReadingRainbow Reading Rabbit]] costume, which, as the name implies, means he has to turn kids on to the magic of books by reading stories to them. But some of the kids have other ideas...

* RamenAsDehydratedNoodles: Mona's staple diet.

* GoodAngelBadAngel: * [[http://www.clv-comic.com/view.php?pic=2855 here]]. In which Donna's demon on the shoulder takes the form of her cynical and caustic best friend, Mona, berating an angel who is a small helpless version of Donna.

* WebcomicsLongRunners: Has run continuously since November 2003 with only two very brief breaks.

In March 2015, Jen announced the effective end of the strip as her professional life and other commitments are taking centre-stage in her life, and she wants to try other creative avenues. She may revisit it with occasional episodes, but will no longer update daily. Thank you, Jen, and may everything work out for you!