Dobie Gillis (Les nombreux amours de…)

Arédit-Artima’s adaptation of Dobie Gillis (titled Les nombreux amours de…), running for ten issues from 1961 to 1963, brought the popular TV teen’s romantic misadventures to French comic readers. The series captured the era’s lighthearted, slightly awkward high school and college humor, focusing on Dobie’s perpetual schemes to win over girls while clashing with his practical father. Though the creative team behind the adaptation isn’t widely credited, the series stands as a charming, period-specific example of European publishers translating American sitcoms into sequential art.