Plif and Plof - Like Beatrix Potter for England, so is Wilhelm Busch for Germany: not only an immensely loved author, on whose books generations of children have grown up, but a sort of Lare or tutelary deity of the genius of the tribe. Busch was responsible first of all for the invention of Max and Moritz (or Pippo and Peppo in their Italian incarnation), progenitors of all the 'terrible boys' - and the passing of time has not been able to produce another couple worthy of them for brutality and inventiveness. But even in the history of what is now called a 'comic', and was once a 'cartoon with text', Busch has left a brilliant imprint, because he has managed to combine the mastery of use with the evident originality of the design. of the word, irreverent, mischievous and bold as the stroke of his pencil. The stormy Pietro and Paolo this time are grappling with two little dogs, Plif and Plof, screanzati, insolent and harbingers of infinite disasters.