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CREATOR

Name: Carlsen Comics (European comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in Denmark in 1899 as P.I.B. by Hjalmar Carlsen (1875-1951) and has since then changed name several times. It has subsidiaries in several European countries. Ongoing.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Carlsen in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation has always focussed on childrens' literature from diverse countries. The pages in this site are all examples from the German branch named Carlsen Verlag.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1988*. Stopped in 1994 after 14 issues, but has been continued since then by other publishers.

The title character is a large and good-natured, anthropomorphic dog who lives in a suburban house with his owner Bojenberg (Sémaphore). Mainly the series contains short stories about the two, spiced up with the frequent occurrence of the irritating neighbour cat Paustian (Sénéchal).

* The series was first published in the French/Belgian comics magazine Tintin in 1968.