THE COMIC ALBUM has been an integral part of French publishing since April 1839 when Charles Philipon and Gabriel Aubert published a comic album plagiarism of Rodolphe Töpffer’s ‘Histoire de Mr. Jabot.’ In 1925 Alain Saint-Ogan (pen-name of Alain Marie Joseph Paul Louis Fernand Lefebvre Saint-Ogan, 1895-1974) created the comic series ‘Zig et Puce’ appearing in Le Dimanche illustré, a weekly supplement of the daily L’Excelsior. His later strip about a comic bear, ‘Prosper L’Ours,’ first appeared in the newspaper Le Matin on February 16, 1933 and soon dominated sales of comic albums for children in France. Seven PROSPER albums were published by Hachette between 1933 and 1940.