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Despite its reputation—in Maurice Horn’s World Encyclopedia of Comics, for example—as a blatant expression of French chauvinism, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s long-running comic series ������é������ has joined the pantheon of classic bandes dessinées. Moreover, the diminutive Gaulish hero’s adventures have proven surprisingly exportable; readers from all over western Europe have been willing to laugh at the stereotypes of their own nations, while...

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From 1985 until 2006, readers of the monthly Stuttgart magazine Live (and after 1991, its successor Lift) were accustomed to seeing in every issue a full-page comic by Peter Puck. Puck’s creation, Rudi, quickly became popular because it combined a sophisticated and humorous artistic style and brilliant comic timing with pointed and witty dialogue that sometimes threatened to crowd the drawings out of their panels. Rudi is the episodic...