Mortimer

Born in the pages of the beloved French anthology Pif Gadget in 1970, Mortimer is a Silver Age creation from cartoonist Louis Cance that found its true home in La Jungle en folie, Dargaud's wildly popular comedic jungle series. Over nearly two decades — from 1970 to 1989 — this character carved out a modest but enduring niche in Franco-Belgian comics, sharing those sun-dappled, anarchic jungle pages with colorful company like Kolégram, Gros Rino, and Joé le tigre. With a collector-recognized key issue among their appearances, Mortimer is a charming artifact of an era when French comics were bursting with invention and irreverent humor — a small but genuine piece of the Dargaud legacy well worth tracking down.