Pierre Tombal is a Belgian gag cartoon strip, drawn by Marc Hardy and with text by Raoul Cauvin, about a mortician and the dead people at his cemetery. The series is in syndication since 1983 and published in the Belgian magazine Spirou by Dupuis. A running gag is Pierre's rivalry with the preprietor of acrematory and a captain who favors burial at sea. In Dutch the series is published under the name G. Raf Zerk. In Spanish as Pedro Tumbas.
Pierre Tombal centers around an undertaker, Pierre Tombal (a pun on pierre tombal, gravestone in French), who owns a cemetery. He is able to talk to the dead people in his graveyard, which often freaks out visitors, especially when the corpses talk or react back. 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 passed away or how they spent their daily lives at the graveyard.
