Zig

Zig is one half of the pioneering French comic duo Zig et Puce, created by Alain Saint-Ogan in 1927. A young adventurer, he travels the world alongside his companion Puce and their penguin Alfred, getting into scrapes across globe-trotting escapades.

Few characters can claim a place at the very dawn of the comic strip art form, but Zig is one of them — bursting onto the page in 1927, a genuine Platinum Age pioneer created by the visionary Alain Saint-Ogan. As one half of the beloved French duo at the heart of Zig et Puce, this character has shared adventures alongside Puce and Alfred across an extraordinary span of nearly 75 years, a testament to the enduring warmth and invention Saint-Ogan poured into that debut. For collectors and enthusiasts of European comics history, Zig represents something rare: a thread that runs from the earliest days of the sequential art tradition all the way into the 21st century, a living piece of the medium's roots published under the Glénat banner.