Pierre Tombal

Pierre Tombal is a Belgian gag comic strip, drawn by Marc Hardy and written by Raoul Cauvin, about a gravedigger and the dead people at his cemetery.

The series has been in syndication since 1983 and is published in the Belgian magazine Spirou by Dupuis.

Pierre functions as a spokesperson, servant, aid and trustworthy guard on benefit of the people who are buried there.

Many black comedy jokes are about the various ways his customers died or how they spent their daily lives at the graveyard.

A running gag is Pierre's rivalry with the proprietor of a crematory and a captain who favors burial at sea.