Doris Dobbel was a Belgian gag-a-day comics series, written and drawn by Marc Sleen, between 8 April 1950 and 1965 and published in the magazine De Middenstand.
Other gags are built around his never-ending rivalry with his neighbour Jan Janssen, who also owns a butcher's shop.
Doris Dobbel has sometimes been unfavorably compared with Rik Clément's comics series Dees Dubbel, which ran in Ons Zondagsblad,[7] consequently the same newspaper where Sleen published Oktaaf Keunink.
Dees Dubbel is a straight humoristic adventure strip, while Doris Dobbel has always been a gag comic.
[8] On November 9, 2010 a copy of De vrolijke avonturen van Doris Dobbel was auctioned for 12.000 euro, making it the highest price ever sold for a Dutch-language comic.