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[[caption-width-right:350:Gotlib by himself.]]

Gotlib was the PenName for Marcel Gotlieb (14 July 1934 – 4 December 2016). He was a French cartoonist whose FrancoBelgianComics are popular classics, who started out in cooperation with scenarist Creator/ReneGoscinny (of ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' fame), and later struck out on his own.

His comics were mostly comedy, dealing with film clichés, complaints about RealLife nuisances, and WhatIf scenarios... which he tackled with his unique art style and humor.

He is still held in high esteem among French cartoonists. Headed the {{NSFW}} Magazine/FluideGlacial mature humour and cartoon magazine, which he cofounded, until his death in 2016.

Most of his (SFW) comics are gathered in the ''Dingodossiers'' and ''Rubrique-à-brac'' series. The NSFW ones are collected in ''Pervers Pépère'' and the ''Rhaâ-'' series.

Not to be confused with the game company Creator/{{Gottlieb}}.
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!!Gotlib's works provide examples of the following tropes:

* AchillesHeel: Not even a GroinAttack brings down ComicBook/{{Superdupont}}. Bruce Lee must resort to the ultimative cruelty to a Frenchman: a Camembert in the fridge.
-->'''Bruce Lee:''' He was a worthy opponent.
** Coupled with another horror: Red Wine with...''ice''.
* [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign As Long As It Looks Foreign]]: The comic analogue to the trope. "No Japonais": An unlucky Samurai playing in the "Theatre of Nations" is DrivenToSuicide when everybody else misinterprets his Kanji as the signal for their act. About all languages that Joe Average can identify from their look (but not read - if you can actually read them, it's pure nonsense) are played through. And then some unknown, until the Caveman enters who speaks "Altamira"...[[StarfishLanguage And finally some step-dancing Martians speaking Wingding.]]
** Possibly also Perverse Mémère and her Kamawhateva book. And then she gets out her vibrator. Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz. Turns out it's a cookbook and she's pureeing Madeleine cream. (The Japanese vaguely hints at it, but it's more an [[CanisLatinicus Inu nihonicus]].)
* AuthorAvatar: Gotlib frequently draws himself in his comics, and is recognizable by his sideburns and big square glasses.
* BerserkButton: Perverse Pépère plays with a toddler which makes the mistake of honking his enormous nose. Alas, P.P. is not [[VideoGame/CosmicOsmo an Osmo]], and [[WouldHurtAChild dishes out a left hook]]. Exit an otherwise HarmlessVillain, for once nonplussed.
* BizarroEpisode:[[invoked]] The strip with the tiger statue that makes anyone who looks at it become insane. [[NoFourthWall Including Gotlib himself, and, it is implied, the reader]].
* ButtMonkey: The Sidekick in the film clichés episodes, who always gets cream pies in his face.
* CaptainEthnic: Superdupont is a basically a bunch of French stereotypes in human form; so stereotypical in fact that even French people tend to agree (and find it amusing).
* CatchPhrase: Several!
** "Blondeau Georges Jacques Babylas, I arrest you for MURDER!"
** "Hell and damnation, I am done for!"
** "Darn it, but of course!" (directly taken from ''Les Cinq Dernières Minutes'')
** "And now, let's go for new adventures!"
** "Now there, my dear, you're fully into science fiction!"
** "And now, let's go for well-deserved vacations!"
** Thought bubble: "Universal gravitation theory"
** [[CallingYourOrgasms RHAA LOVELY!]]
* {{Cephalothorax}}:
** In the ''Rubric-à-brac'' about giraffes, this is how a nerve is represented, a muscle is similair but more muscular and the brain is also the same but with a crown.
** An enzyme is represented like this in an other ''Rubrique-à-brac''.
* ComicSutra: You bet. Shipping Film/KingKong with a skyscraper (NSFW, what else) is only one of his crazy ideas.
* CrossOver: "Barbaralice" (''Film/{{Barbarella}}''[=/=]''Literature/AliceInWonderland'') and "Pinokenstein" (''Literature/{{Pinocchio}}''[=/=]''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''). Neither work survived the parody.
* CurseOfTheAncients and ForeignCussWord: Sort of. When going through the various action hero occupations ([[ComicBook/BuckDanny pilot]], [[ComicBook/BarbeRouge pirate]], Franchise/{{Tarzan}}, [[Franchise/JamesBond secret agent]], etc.), they use the expletives used at the time such as Gosh!, Blood'n'guts!, and Damned! (which seems the be the transcription for Dammit!).
* DamselInDistress: When Brick Abrack is playing blind man's buff with his girlfriend Clorinde, she gets captured by the villain and put into a DeathTrap while he still thinks she is hiding despite her cries for help.
* DirtyOldMan: Pervers Pépère is one, except (maybe) for the times he subverts his own antics ForTheEvulz or ForTheLulz.
* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: Referred to when talking about film clichés.
* DisneyVillainDeath: In an episode about film clichés, he explains the villain must never die and be back in the next episode, and shows a villain falling from a cliff, but then is shown in the "ending" panel as being alive and well.
* DontExplainTheJoke: A cartoon short where several people tell themselves increasingly dirty jokes, with increasing facial distortion by laughter. The last one evidently is too contrieved for one of them. When she finally exclaims: "Oh, his *penis*!" all faces go to disgusted deadpan unisono.
* DrosteImage: La Vache qui [[ItMakesSenseInContext exhibit.]]
* DrugsAreGood: Pervers Pépère as God (or God as Pervers Pépère) takes the white middle line of a street and sniffs it up like cocaine. It's a [[{{Pun}} line]] after all...
* ExactWords: Pervers Pépère, on the toilet, sees a contact ad of a homosexual, something with loving pipes[[note]]French UnusualEuphemism for a blowjob[[/note]]. He arranges a meeting and gives the guy a present: A beautifully crafted meerschaum pipe. Still, ceci n'est pas une amused victim.
* EyepatchOfPower: A recurring villain in the episodes about clichés is a [[BaldOfEvil bald]], eyepatch-wearing villain who speaks with a German accent. Probably a [[CompositeCharacter melding]] of [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld and his eyepatch-wearing henchman]].
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Subverted/parodied in the strip ''Dans l’espace profond on ne vous entendra pas gerber'' ("In deep space no one will hear you barf"), an Film/{{Alien}} spoof (what else?). [[spoiler: Pervers Pépère's mouth/face is apparently so disgusting that the facehugger detaches on its own without completing the implantation process and slithers off, nauseated, to [[VomitIndiscretionShot go puke in a corner]].]]
* FlirtingUnderFire: His action heroes do this all the time, passionately kissing the BondGirl while shooting a bad guy (without looking) and delivering an OffhandBackhand to another.
* ForWantOfANail: One story is about a time traveller who goes into Isaac Newton's time, sleeps under his apple tree, and because Isaac Newton was not here to have the apple fall on his head, he couldn't have thought about the law of gravitation and therefore, the lack of it will have prevented the invention of time travel in the future; the time traveller is stuck.
* FracturedFairyTale: He has drawn some fairy tales straightforward, others go into parody.
* GroinAttack: Naturally. Hamster Jovial gets one on the cover of his book, and Superdupont one from Bruce Lee (in self-defense).
* HandsInPockets: In an episode, he describes different kind of cartoonists and how their temper defines what they draw. The description of a "cheating" cartoonist is the latter hiding a complicated scenery with simple objects, so, as an example, a panel describes the terrifying battle of Waterloo but most of the battlefield is hidden from the viewer by a big cannon and a pile of cannonballs.
* TheHero: Brick Abrack is meant to be the archetypical hero.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: An episode was a sarcastic TakeThat at cynical officials who dismiss innovative scientific hypothesises with the phrase "Now there, my dear, you're fully in science fiction!" and show it happening to famous scientists of History.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Hamster Jovial tries to change that by hearing [[Music/TinaTurner Tina Turner]], but it probably doesn't work.
-->'''Hamster Jovial''': Pop music is full of contradictions.
* LoveAtFirstSight: A story is about a prince who totally falls in love, head over heels, with a pretty shepherd girl, and almost becomes sick because of it.
* TheMermaidProblem: In one comic, Mowgli the wolf-boy and Tarzan the ape-man are competing to seduce a singing woman in the middle of the forest. After fighting, they decide to go woo her together... and are shocked to find out that she is a fish-woman.
* MessyPig: Parodied in the "animal documentary" episodes with Professor Burp: despite the pig who is shown as being a messy and unrefined animal, Professor Burp is all dressed up, with a top hat and monocle, and talks about the pig in a very respectful way, while The Ladybug is very sloppy and vulgar. Later, in the episode about the deer, who is shown as a [[{{Bambification}} classy and beautiful animal]], Professor is the one who is sloppy, vulgar and very laconic about the deer, while The Ladybug wears this time the top hat and monocle.
* {{Mockumentary}}: The animal-themed strips. For example, one starts out about rhinoceroses that suddenly acquire duck traits (migrate, taste good with oranges...) because the author's daughter messed up his files.
* MistakenForCheating: In the ''Rubrique-à-brac'' about marmots, Professor burp try to observe a couple of the titular animal in their burrow, but the marmot husband come after the professor and thinks his wife cheated on him.
* NerdGlasses: Gotlib's glasses in his AuthorAvatar.
* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: More correctly "fist fight", but we don't have all trope permutations. Superdupont fights against Bruce Lee, first with the good old [[WeightedGloves hidden horseshoe]], but then quickly gets out the semi-automatic and finally a cannon. [[CurbStompBattle Alas, Bruce is simply too fast for him.]] (Although Superdupont is, on the other hand, [[MadeOfIron too tough to bring down]] until Bruce resorts to exploiting his AchillesHeel...)
* NoSmoking: Gotlib obviously dislikes smoking and describes an elephant who has become forgetful because it has taken up smoking and a time traveller who doesn't recognize his mother in the past because he is a heavy smoker.
* OncePerEpisode: In every "animal documentary", Isaac Newton will have the animal of the week fall on his head, and subsequently discover universal gravitation theory. One exception was when studying the hippopotamus and it's Edison (still portrayed as Newton, though) who puts a hippo in a tub and then says "And yet it moves". A great deal of confusion ensues.
* OnlyOneName: Defied. It's a RiddleForTheAges what was the surname of [[Film/DrMabuseTheGambler Dr. Mabuse.]] Now we know: It's "Zischöne".[[note]]Vaguely German, "Sie Schöne" = you beauty, doubles as PunnyName since "Zischöne Mabuse" sounds like "Si je ne m'abuse..." ("If I'm correct...")[[/note]] Now if there wasn't this nagging feeling [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Gotlib just made it up...]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: A ''Rubrique-à-brac'' is about a ant who take revange on a ant-eater in various way including beating it with raw strenght despite being smaller.
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: A story is about the problem of having a non-speaking parrot.
* ProfileViewGag: One Rubrique-a-Brac strip was a FracturedFairyTale where a handsome prince sees a beautiful shepherdess (always from the front, as does the reader), but never manages to get close enough to talk to her. He finally approaches her from the side, suddenly mumbles an apology and gets the hell out of there, the confused shepherdess turning her head to look at him and revealing her nose juts out of her face like a trireme's ram. The dejected prince then laments that you can't see people from the side and the front at the same time... and turning his head to face the audience for the first time, revealing his own face is half-handsome, half-ugly.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Alas, poor Hamster Jovial (a pathfinder). He declares he has enough of Gotlibs idiotic gags. After a {{GroinAttack}} and other inconveniences (think of the famous Bugs drawing Daffy cartoon, adult variant) he steps back in line.
* RemovableShell: In the ''Rubrique-à-brac'' about tortoises, a female tortoise take a bath without her shell.
* RuleOfFunny: One comic asks miscellaneous manufacturing questions, such as how is toothpaste inserted inside their tubes? How is pasta hollowed? While the easy question would be "machines", Gotlib instead presents the workers manually attempting those with the most basic tools, if any.
* RunningGag: Isaac Newton having some object falling down on his head, getting him to come up with the universal gravitation theory.
* SelfDeprecation: In a ''Rubrique-à-brac'' telling the story of [[Literature/TheUglyDuckling The Ugly Duckling]] it is said that even the ugliest people where scared of the Ugly Duckling, one of these is Gotlib himself.
* ShaggyDogStory: A lot, of the kind ending in an untranslatable atrocious pun.
* SymbolSwearing: Inverted. Yes, ''inverted''! [[ItMakesSenseInContext ABCDEF!!]]
* TooKinkyToTorture: Pervers Pépère's girlfriend. They have a bondage session, and she just laughs about the torture. Until PP [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment rips her a nosehair out.]]
** PP kinda counts too: The poor facehugger who hugs his face flees green in the face, in desperate need of an Alka-Seltzer.
* TotemPoleTrench: Two kids disguised as an exhibitionist.
* {{Troll}} : the best description one can make about his Pervers Pépère (Pervy Old Guy) character. He entirely relies on him looking and (apparently) acting like a DirtyOldMan just for playing pranks.
* VaginaDentata: Male variant. Pervers Pépère has some mousetrap or whatever hidden under his trenchcoat, protecting his rear entry. A cartoonist colleague of Gotlib trying to slap P.P.'s butt ends up bandaged.
* WhatIf: Several comics are about "What if..." scenarios, some of them completely absurd, such as "What if... apples were ''pumpkins''?".
* ZanyScheme: Pervers Pépère is willing to go astronomical lengths of preparation just to get his [[ForTheLulz lulz]] in the end.
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