La coccinelle

La coccinelle ("the ladybug") is a character created by French cartoonist Gotlib, debuting in the underground humor magazine L'Écho des savanes. She inhabits Gotlib's signature absurdist, irreverent comedic world, a staple of his provocative adult Franco-Belgian strips.

Born in the pages of L'Écho des savanes in 1973, La coccinelle is a creation of the legendary French cartoonist Gotlib, emerging right at the heart of the Bronze Age underground comics renaissance in France. Appearing across nearly three decades and found most at home in Rhââ Lovely and the irreverent pages of L'Écho des savanes, this character inhabits a wonderfully eccentric corner of Franco-Belgian comics — sharing those pages with the likes of Isaac Newton, Tarzan, and the inimitable Commissaire Bougret. With Gotlib himself as a co-presence on the page, La coccinelle carries the unmistakable stamp of one of the great comic minds of the era, and for collectors with a taste for the witty, the offbeat, and the gloriously unconventional, that's more than enough reason to seek these issues out.