Sammy is a popular humour Belgian comics series. It first started in 1970 in the weekly comic Spirou magazine, it has been published in book form, and even been the subject of several omnibus editions by Dupuis. Raoul Cauvin wrote the series while artist Berck (aka Arthur Berckmans) drew the first thirty or so adventures before being succeeded by (aka Jean-Pol Van Den Broeck). The 40th book in the series was published in 2009 and it was announced that it would be Sammy's final adventure.