{{Short description|French comic strip}} {{italic title}} [[Image:Superdupont.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Superdupont, with a Gallic rooster, in a position spoofing a classic Superman pose]] '''''Superdupont''''' is a French comics series created in 1972 by Marcel Gotlib and Jacques Lob. It is a spoof of American super-hero comics that sends up French national attitudes and jingoism.
==Publication history== ''Superdupont'' was initially published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Pilote'' from September 21, 1972<ref name=BDO-p>{{cite web|last=BDoubliées|title=Pilote année 1972|url=https://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/annees/1972.htm|language=fr}}</ref> and moved to Gotlib's own magazine ''Fluide Glacial'' in 1975.
The series, published irregularly through the decades, was originally written by Lob and Gotlib (who teamed up after finding out they had both had the same idea independently) and drawn by Gotlib. Gotlib passed on the art duties to Alexis, who was succeeded by Jean Solé after his 1977 death. Episodes have been drawn by Daniel Goossens, Al Coutelis, François Boucq, Gotlib again and Neal Adams. After Lob died in 1990, the series was written again by Gotlib with co-writers Lefred-Thouron, Bouck, then Belkrouf. No Superdupont comics have been made since Gotlib's death in 2016.
==The character== Superdupont is the son of the Unknown Soldier buried under the Arc de Triomphe. He is caricaturally chauvinistic and gifted with superpowers that help him to defend his country against a secret terrorist organisation called "Anti-France".
Anti-France agents are all foreigners and thus speak the fictional language "Anti-Français", a mishmash of English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and German.
The physical appearance of Superdupont is a superhero version of a stereotyped Frenchman: he wears a beret, a striped jersey, slippers, a tricolour belt held by a safety pin, a long blue cape. He also supports economic patriotism, as he smokes Gauloises cigarettes, drinks red wine, eats French cheese and refuses to be painted using China ink.
Like Superman, Superdupont is able to fly. He also possesses some degree of superhuman strength, though his main fighting ability is to be a master at savate, also known as boxe française ("French boxing"). He can be incapacitated if he hears the ''Marseillaise'' played backwards, which is for him the equivalent of kryptonite.
==Publications== *Tome 1 : ''Superdupont'' (by Jacques Lob, Gotlib and Alexis) *Tome 2 : ''Amour et forfaiture'' (by Jacques Lob, Gotlib and Solé) *Tome 3 : ''Opération Camembert'' (by Jacques Lob, Gotlib and Solé) *Tome 4 : ''Oui nide Iou'' (by Jacques Lob, Gotlib, Alexis, Solé, Daniel Goossens, Neal Adams and Coutelis) *Tome 5 : ''Les âmes noires'' (by Jacques Lob, Gotlib, Alexis, Solé) *Tome 6 : ''Superdupont pourchasse l'ignoble'' (by Marcel Gotlib, Lefred-Thouron, Solé)
== See also == * Superlópez (Spanish counterpart)
==Sources== {{Refbegin}} * [https://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/series5/superdupont.htm ''Superdupont'' publications in ''Pilote''] and [https://bdoubliees.com/fluideglacial/series5/superdupont.htm ''Fluide Glacial''] BDoubliées {{in lang|fr}} * [https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-1874-BD-SuperDupont.html ''Superdupont'' albums] Bedethque {{in lang|fr}} {{Refend}} ;Footnotes {{Reflist}} Category:Satirical comics Category:Political satire comics Category:Parody comics Category:Parody superheroes Category:1972 comics debuts Category:Fictional French people Category:French comics characters Category:Comics characters introduced in 1972 Category:Parodies of Superman Category:French political satire Category:Comics set in France