Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber

Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber
Piet (left) and Bert (right)
Author(s)	Pom
Current status/schedule	Discontinued
Launch date	16 April 1951.[1]
End date	1995
Syndicate(s)	Het Handelsblad, Gazet van Antwerpen
Genre(s)	Action, Humor, adventure, satire

Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber was a Belgian comic series, published between 1951 and 1995, created by Pom (Jozef Van Hove).^[2] It is a humoristic adventure strip about two friends, Piet Pienter and Bert Bibber and their female friend Susan.

It was published in the Flemish dialect and notable for being one of the few comics series to never fully adapt the standard Dutch language^[3] and, apart from the final album, remained published in black-and-white.^[4] Creator Pom also enjoyed making puns and drawing funny signs in the background, often spoofing well known advertisements. For instance: "Oma wast beter" (literally: "Grandma does the laundry better", a pun on the detergent brand Omo). He was particularly notorious for adding ironic commentary about his own stories while narrating the story.^[1]

Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber 's popularity was considerable, but proved to be mostly a local Flemish phenomenon; being published in Antwerp newspapers, it was above all popular in that area. Over the years Pom started to dislike his profession,^[1] causing new albums to appear less and less frequent. In 1995 the series was terminated, because a certain type of paper that he used for all his stories wasn't produced anymore.^[3] Since Pom strongly disliked giving interviews or providing any sort of media attention to himself or his characters Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber, the series faded somewhat out of public view over the decades, despite being fondly remembered by many comics fans.^[5]