YMMV / Gotlib

• Heartwarming Moments: An Alternate Character Interpretation has the ogre from "Hop-o'-My-Thumb" (the one who killed his daughters) be depressed now that he's all alone, so he starts making small toys and objects to pass the time and letting his beard grow out. Until one day, his hair white with age, he decides to do something about all these toys: give them out to young children on Christmas Day. D'aaawwwwwwww.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In a Rubrique-à-brac story, it's said that before the wheel was invented, mankind needed to invent the circle first and that everyone and everything was cubic much like Minecraft, which came out decades later.
  • In an other Rubrique-à-brac story, he tries to tell the story of the Little Red Riding Hood, but he always messes up the part where Red meets the Big Bad Wolf, in one of them, he says that Red beats up the Wolf, which would later happen in the animated movie Hoodwinked!.
• Misaimed Fandom: He created the character of superhero "Superdupont" as a parody of French chauvinism: he meant to look like the stereotype of a Frenchman (beret, moustache...) who fought an enemy called "Anti-France" and fought for French cultural identity. What went wrong is that right-wing nationalistic parties used Superdupont as a symbol of French cultural identity. Due to this, Gotlib decided to quit using the character for a long while.
• Parody Displacement: Many things that are parodied in his comics have become very obscure or even unknown for younger viewers. Bougret and Charolles (whose appearances are caricatures of fellow cartoonist Gébé and Gotlib himself) are parodies of French detective TV series Les Cinq Dernières Minutes broadcasted from the late '50s to the early '70s , but most readers nowadays wouldn't know that.

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