The eponymous character and the protagonist of the series, Canardo is an anthropomorphic strange duck who has a career as a private investigator.

He suffers from severe personal problems, including vast consumption of beer to forget the unfortunate events he has gone through.

In the first incident, Canardo is about to be lynched by an angry crowd when he falls in a pit filled with urine, where he supposedly drowns.

One of the first recurring characters in the series, Clara is a femme fatale stork whose lust for power has led her to do extreme things.

English title: A Dog's Life Canardo isn't the main protagonist of this album, but rather a background influencer, or Éminence grise.

The story features a dog working to stop a mad doctor who performs animal experiments, while investigating the murder of his girlfriend, for which everyone blames him.

English title: A Silent Death Canardo, depressed after the trip to Siberia, witnesses a brutal homicide as Bronx, a bear, kills a customer of the pub despite normally being harmless, being too stupid to be angered.

When he is being transported in a wagon by a father and a daughter in East Europe, Rasputin escapes, causing the local population to equip themselves with firearms and begin hunting for this beast.

English title: A Filthy Little Pile of Secrets Canardo is tasked by a family to locate the gold bars their late grandfather stole from the Nazi government during his French Resistance days.

Canardo is given a portable time machine (a rare occurrence of futuristic elements in the comics) to help him discover the location of the gold.