Spiff and Hercules is a French comic strip featuring an anthropomorphic brown-yellow dog named Spiff and a black-white cat named Hercules. Despite being best friends, they constantly fight in a friendship/hate relationship. The character of Spiff was created by José Cabrero Arnal for the French Communist Party newspaper L'Humanité on March 28, 1948, and the cat Hercules was introduced two years later.
The adventures of Spiff also appeared in the British communist newspaper the Daily Worker (later The Morning Star) until the mid-1970s. In 1989, Spiff got his own magazine called "Pif Gadget," which was very popular as it included several different comic strips and offered a toy gadget in each issue. Hercules also got his own version of Spiff's magazine, this one called "Super Hercule," but his magazine was more joke-oriented.
A series of 65 26-minute animated cartoons featuring the characters was produced in 1989 by Europe Images/M5 in France. Each program consisted of two episodes. United Kingdom television station Channel 4 aired the series in 1993.