Spiff and Hercules

Spiff and Hercules is the English translation of a French comic strip entitled Pif et Hercule featuring an anthropomorphic brown-yellow dog ("Pif") and a black-white cat ("Hercule") who, despite being best friends, are constantly fighting in a friendship/hate relationship. The character of Pif was created by José Cabrero Arnal for the communist newspaper l'Humanité on March 28 1948, and the cat Hercule was introduced two years later.

Spiff later got his own magazine ("Pif Gadget"), which was very popular as not only did it show several different comics, but offered a toy gadget in each issue.

Hercules also got his own version of Spiff's magazine, this one called "Super Hercule", but his magazine was more joke-oriented.

A series of animated cartoon movies featuring the characters was produced in the 1990s.