Les Aventures d'Attila

Les Aventures d'Attila (in English: The Adventures of Attila), also known as Attila, is a French-Belgian comic strip series of humorous animal adventures created in 1967 by Belgian scriptwriter Maurice Rosy and Swiss illustrator Derib in Spirou No. 1531. From 1968 onwards, Maurice Kornblum joined as a co-writer for the series. Didgé [fr] took over drawing duties in 1987 for a final story.

The series features Attila, a dog and spy for the Swiss army, whose mental faculties have been enhanced, including the ability to speak, rendering him the army's most valuable asset. He is accompanied by his handler, Ernest Bourrillon, a former quartermaster. In the second album, Attila adopts a young boy named Odée. In the subsequent album, they are assisted by another spy dog, designated as Z14, created by Professor Comant.

The series was first published in Spirou from 1967 to 1973 and then again in 1987. It was subsequently released in paperback by Dupuis in 1969 and, by 1974, four albums had been published. An anthology was released in 2010. In that same year, La Vache qui médite published the fifth previously unreleased story in album form.

The series, originally grounded in comedy derived from the contrast between Attila's status as a real dog and a highly trained spy, gradually transitioned into the domain of science fiction. This shift in genre gave rise to disagreements between the writers Rosy-Kornblum and artist Derib, ultimately leading to the series' untimely conclusion, despite its esteemed position among comic aficionados as a work destined to become a classic.