Pierre Tombal is a Belgian gag comic strip, drawn by Marc Hardy and written by Raoul Cauvin, about a gravedigger and the dead people at his cemetery. The series has been in syndication since 1983 and is published in the Belgian magazine Spirou by Dupuis.
Synopsis
Pierre Tombal centers around an undertaker, Pierre Tombal (a pun on
pierre tombale,
gravestone in French), who owns a cemetery. He is able to talk to the dead people in his graveyard, which often freaks out visitors, especially when the corpses talk or react back. Pierre functions as a spokesperson, servant, aid and trustworthy guard on benefit of the people who are buried there. Many
black comedy jokes are about the various ways his customers died or how they spent their daily lives at the graveyard. A
running gag is Pierre's rivalry with the proprietor of a
crematory and a captain who favors burial at sea. The
Grim Reaper is also a recurring character.
Other languages
In Dutch the series is published under the name
G. Raf Zerk. In Spanish as
Pedro Tumbas. In Indonesian as
Tombal.In Greek as
Πιέρ το Κοράκι.
List of albums
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1 : Les 44 premiers trous, 1986 ().
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2 : Histoires d'os, 1986 ().
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3 : Morts aux dents, 1987 ().
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4 : Des os pilants, 1987 ().
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5 : Ô suaires, 1988 ().
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6 : Côte à l'os, 1989 ().
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7 : Cas d'os surprise, 1990 ().
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8 : Trou dans la couche d'os jaunes, 1991 ().
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9 : Voyage de n'os, 1992 ().
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10 : Dégâts des os, 1993 ().
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11 : La défense des os primés, 1994 ().
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12 : Os Courent, 1995 ().
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13 : La pelle aux morts, 1996 ().
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14 : Des Décédés et des dés, 1997 ().
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15 : Chute d'os, 1997 ().
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16 : Tombe, la neige, 1998 ().
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17 : Devinez qui on enterre demain ?, 1999 ().
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18 : Condamné à perpète, 2000 ().
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19 : Squelettes en fête, 2001 ().
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20 : Morts de rire, 2002 ().
H.S.
Best Of, Tome 1, 2003 ().
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21 : K.os, 2003 ().
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22 : Ne jouez pas avec la mort !, 2005 ().
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23 : Regrets éternels, 2006 (.
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24 : On s'éclate mortels, 2007 ().
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25 : Mise en orbite, 2008 ()
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26 : Pompes funèbres, 2009 ().
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27 : Entre la vie et la mort, 2011 ().
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28 : L'amour est dans le cimetière, 2012
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29 : Des os et des bas, 5 avril 2013
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30 : Questions de vie ou de mort, 2014 ().
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31 : Peine de mort, 2015 ().
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32 : Fin de bail au cimetière, 2016 ().
See also
• Marcinelle school
• Belgian comics
• Franco-Belgian comics
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