Rosie (comic strips)

*Rosie* is based on **comic strips** created by Romain Gadiou that were published on a website called "Mundo-Bd" and was ran from February 5, 2008, to October 29, 2008. This is a list of the known comic strips that were published, as well as a rough English translation of them. Please note that the original Mundo-Bd website has shut down in late 2017 and the original website has stopped posting new content since March 31, 2011. Because of it, all the comic strips shown below are archives from the Wayback Machine.

## Characters

* Rosie (debut in comic strip #1)
* Rosie's neighbor (debut in comic strip #20)
* Blackie (debut in comic strip #2)
* Rosie's mother (voice heard in comic strip #1; physical form debut in comic strip #6)
* The Nanny (debut in comic strip #14)
* Rosie's friend (debut in comic strip #8)
* Rosie's friend's imaginary friend (debut in comic strip #8)
* Rosie's grandmother (indirectly mentioned in comic strip #19)

## Known comic strips

### #1 - February 5, 2008

**Rosie's mother:** Rosie, darling! Don't just slumped on the couch. It's so nice outside. You should play a balloon, make the swing, read a book. How do you make friends if you do not go out bravely, my roudoudou? A little exercise will do you the greatest good.

### #2 - February 11, 2008

**Rosie:** What's great about an imaginary friend is that he never contradicts you. Not real, old man Blackie? Remove it immediately!

### #3 - February 20, 2008

**Rosie:** I can not continue like this. TV, eat, sleep, always the same routine. I need to come back. I'll have to start a 180 ° turn.

### #4 - February 27, 2008

**Rosie:** I know you do not really exist, Blackie. At 3 you will no longer be. 1 ... 2 ...

### #5 - March 5, 2008

**Rosie:** No, but you're too right! Wait, but yeah! Yeah, it's clear! So true.

### #6 - March 12, 2008

**Rosie:** I feel good right now, you know, Mom, really well. I am all upside down from the inside. No more dark thoughts. Hello, life. I think I'm pregnant! *(to Blackie)* You should have seen her face!

### #7 - March 19, 2008

**Rosie:** Must face the facts, Blackie, I will never be a great artist. Edgar Poe, Picasso, Hendrix, it was real mad torture by a thousand demons. Forgive me, Blackie, but it's different than talking with a sheep.

### #8 - March 26, 2008

**Rosie's friend:** Wonderful. Life is a box of magic markers, each color of which is my friend.

**Imaginary friend:** Creepy people who speak alone, huh?

### #9 - April 2, 2008

**Imaginary friend:** Hi!

**Blackie:** Hi!

**Imaginary friend:** Did you know about Roger?

**Blackie:** Yeah?

**Imaginary friend:** This is the guy crisis. The children are getting older, the psychotherapists are harassing us. Soon nobody will do anything about us. We are damn survivors, dude.

**Blackie:** You see, I think we still have a beautiful year ahead of us.

### #10 - April 9, 2008

**Rosie:** Mom! Mom, I made a nice drawing. Mom, come see my drawing I did. Please, Mom, Mom, Mom! Mom?

*(The text-box on the fourth panel reads, "30 seconds later".)*

**Rosie's mother:** You called me, dear?

### #11 - April 16, 2008

**Rosie:** You were right, Blackie, elsewhere does not exist.

### #12 - April 23, 2008

*(The word on the door reads, "Psychoanalyst".)*

### #13 - April 30, 2008

*(The text-box on the third panel reads, "After development".)*

### #14 - May 7, 2008

**Rosie:** We need to avoid talking in public, Blackie. People do not understand...

**Nanny:** Hey there!

**Rosie:** Damn! The nanny! If she catches me I'm good for spanking ...

**Nanny:** So? Are we still talking alone?

### #15 - May 14, 2008

**Rosie's mother:** No, Rosie! No way to watch this dumb movie tonight!

**Rosie:** Really? Well... well, okay. Anyway I do not care. I'm not even upset.

### #16 - May 21, 2008

**Rosie's friend:** When I have a child, if it's a boy I'd like to call him "Oscar".

**Rosie:** Hmm... Oscar. Shut up! Oscar, you drunk me! Damn it! "Oscar", yeah, it sounds good.

### #17 - May 28, 2008

**Rosie's mother:** That's it! Stay slumped like a big potato! All day long spattered to discuss with your imaginary friends, can you tell me where it's going to lead you? You will end up working in a madhouse.

### #18 - June 4, 2008

**Sheep Mayor:** I first want to silence these stupid rumors of pseudo extraterrestrial invasion. Sleep quietly, dear citizens, you have absolutely no risk. And don't forget: sheep are our friends!

**Person on phone:** OK, we are preparing to transmute the little fat.

### #19 - June 11, 2008

**Rosie:** Gargl...weuurgg...rrrrr... And you, your grandmother, what she looks like?

### #20 - June 18, 2008

**Rosie:** "The prince kisses her, then they lived happily ever after and had many children and..." This is weird. It misses the end. Normally there's a lot of stuff after.

**Rosie's neighbor:** Really? Tell! Tell!

**Unnamed woman:** But no, I assure you that Snow White did not die of a big colon cyst!

### #21 - June 25, 2008

**Rosie:** Hello, I'm a magic fairy! You have to obey everything I say!

**Rosie's neighbor:** Well, first of all, you're not even a magic fairy. I know you're my neighbor.

**Rosie:** *(thinking)* I feel like I'm going to love this ...

**Rosie's neighbor:** Wow! A magic fairy!

### #22 - July 2, 2008

**Rosie:** Prrrttt ablebleble spprrrbllll.

**Rosie's neighbor:** You know, we don't have to both play if you don't want.

**Rosie:** Bli bouluboulu blllblleb abalablou.

### #23 - July 9, 2008

**Rosie's neighbor:** But when you say you "despised me" it means what?

**Rosie:** It's a combination of complex elements. I hate you, you disgust me, I want to make you eat dirt. What all this?

**Rosie's neighbor:** But are we still friends?

**Rosie:** Of course.

**Rosie's neighbor:** Cool.

### #24 - July 16, 2008

**Rosie's neighbor:** Hi Rosie.

**Rosie:** I am not Rosie. I am "Darth Rose", a pitiless and cruel warrior at the service of evil!

**Rosie's neighbor:** No good, the costume...

**Rosie:** I am your mother!

### #25 - July 23, 2008

**Rosie:** No, it's not that he is more handsome or smarter than you ... ah ... how to explain. I love you Blackie but ... with him it's different. How do you say that without hurting you...at least he cries when I hit him!

### #26 - July 30, 2008

**Rosie:** And now little magical leprechaun, you will fly in the air and take me with you to your imaginary country!

**Rosie's neighbor:** Yes, but I'm not my imagination.

**Rosie:** Well, we'll have to work on that.

### #27 - August 6, 2008

**Rosie:** Since you don't want to make any effort, I'm going to write a thesis about you. I am going to explain to the world that you are an imaginary leprechaun thou shalt be punished.

**Rosie's neighbor:** Well yes ... except that I'm not an imaginary leprechaun.

**Rosie:** Chapter One: The Denial.

### #28 - August 13, 2008

**Rosie's neighbor:** A nail? A nail... a nail. Rosie says to me, "Come on, let's play the nail". What does it mean?

### #29 - August 20, 2008

**Rosie:** *(thinking)* Once catapult, the imaginary child takes a long time to come back.

### #30 - August 27, 2008

**Rosie:** The imaginary child totally denies his condition of leprechaun. He sometimes wears a ridiculous hat.

**Rosie's neighbor:** It's a bandage! I wear them because you attacked me with a hammer!

**Rosie:** And in addition, he has a big nose.

### #31 - September 3, 2008

**Rosie:** That's it! The long face speaks to me, "I don't care". Somewhere deep down, I know that there is a friend.

### #32 - September 10, 2008

**Rosie:** I was watching the sea ... peaceful and serene. Suddenly, a roaring and huge wave failed to carry me away with her. The calm returned. I found myself alone, spared... Neptune had not wanted me. So you will understand, Mom, that in return, I can not accept your herring potatoes.

### #33 - September 17, 2008

**Rosie:** Ahem... um ...

**Rosie's neighbor:** Yes?

**Rosie:** It's amazing that you're ugly.

### #34 - September 24, 2008

**Rosie:** That's it! I finished my thesis! Two months of research and hard work to show that you are an imaginary leprechaun! Yet, I miss a single element to finalize my work. What's your first name?

### #35 - October 1, 2008

**Rosie:** Of course, I sometimes have doubts. Humor is a complex language and difficult to master. But hey, you still don't get angry for so little.

**Rosie's neighbor:** Good! Okay! But are you getting me out of here now?

*(The tombstone reads "To my dear neighbor")*

### #36 - October 8, 2008

**Rosie:** We can no longer ignore the risks. Statistics are formal. Alien conflict can explode at any time. And I want our future invaders to see their target now.

### #37 - October 15, 2008

**Rosie:** A publisher answered me. "Dear Rosie, we have received your manuscript and because of its poor quality, we decided to refuse it. However, following a computer error, we have printed 500,000 and turns over the inventory in Siberia. Congratulations, it's a huge success. You will find attached: a check for 1 million euros". The craziest thing is that I sent them nothing!

**Rosie's neighbor:** Luck is good for scoundrels.

### #38 - October 22, 2008

**Rosie's neighbor:** Sometimes I wonder. When I dream of a butterfly, is it not rather he who dreams of me? In this case, who am I?

**Rosie:** Oh yeah, the old stroke of the butterfly. No, I don't believe in anything, and I'll explain why.

### #39 - October 29, 2008

**Rosie:** Crazy! The adapted musical of my book is a huge board in Uzbekistan.

**Rosie's neighbor:** That's enough, Rosie! Your "book" your "success", all that is nothing but lies. We know it very well, you and me.

*(The sign reads "Spektakl: камень и крыс". It roughly means "Theatrical: Stone and Rat" in Russian.)*

## Trivia

* The comic strips aren't canon to the animated series because they were created prior to the series was in production.
* It's unknown why the comic has ended its run after October 29, 2008, but it's possible that the comic strips got canceled so that Romain Gadiou could focus on the animated series.
* There're several strips that would later get adapted into an animated episode of the TV series:
	+ Comic strip #2 and #5 are both adapted to "(Un)real Friends..." and "My Imaginami".
	+ Comic strip #4 is adapted to "1... 2... 3...".
	+ Comic strip #7 is adapted to "Each His Demons".
	+ Comic strip #14 is adapted to "The Nanny".
	+ Comic strip #16 is adapted to "A Name That Rings". However, instead of Rosie's female friend, Olive took her place for wanting to name his future son "Oscar".
	+ Comic strip #18 is adapted to "They Are Among Us".
	+ Comic strip #20 is adapted to "Real Life".
	+ Comic strip #24 is adapted to "Darth Rose".
	+ Comic strip #28 is adapted to "The Nail".
	+ Comic strip #31 is adapted to "Inside".
	+ Comic strip #32 is adapted to "Neptune and Me".
	+ Comic strip #36 is adapted to "Imminent Invasion".
* There're a lot of differences between the animated series and comic strips:
	+ In the animated series, Rosie is a gloomy, asocial girl with a goth-like taste who rather stays indoors than making friends and makes other people's lives miserable. The comic strip Rosie, however, is sometimes seen smiling a lot, doesn't mind wearing a dress at all (as seen in comic strip #22) and is seen to occasionally hang out with her friends.
	+ Unlike the animated version of Olive who's a naive and innocent child, Rosie's neighbor in the comic strips is portrayed as a sane and somewhat snarky boy who would often get annoyed by Rosie's antics.
	+ The relationship between Rosie and Olive from the animated series is very different in the comic strips. In the animated series, Rosie has a huge hatred towards Olive while Olive tends to innocently annoy Rosie a lot. Here, while Rosie likes to make fun of her neighbor and he often gets annoyed by her antics, they still consider each other as friends and care about each other. The two might also have feelings for each other.
		- In comic strip #22, Rosie puts on a dress to pretend that she's a magic fairy in front of him and thinks she's going to enjoy doing it. And in comic strip #25, she confesses to Blackie about how she feels about her neighbor.
		- In comic strip #23, the neighbor is seen blushing at her.
	+ In the animated series, Rosie despises her mother and dislikes how she constantly doting her. While the relationship between Rosie and her mother isn't shown much in the comic strips, Rosie is shown to at least respect her mother and is seen to enjoy playing pranks at her (as seen in comic strip #6).
* Rosie's neighbor isn't named in the comic strips and thus, it's unknown if his name is Olive like in the animated series. This was lampshaded in comic strip #34 when Rosie asks him for his first name.
* It's possible that Anne-Flo Calendula is based on Rosie's friend who appears in comic strips #8, 9, and 16.
* Rosie's line, "I am your mother", in comic strip #24 is a reference to Darth Vadar saying to Luke Skywalker, "No, I am your father", from *The Empire Strikes Back*.
* In comic strip #7, it's revealed that Rosie wants to be an artist. Edgar Poe, Picasso, and Jimi Hendrix are also mentioned by Rosie.
* The telephone toy that Rosie uses in comic strip #5 is a parody of the Chatter Telephone.
* The comic strip logo is white from February 5, 2008, to September 3, 2008. Starting with comic strip #32, the logo color is changed to black.
* In comic strip #37, Rosie earns a 1 million euros check for a manuscript she "created" and "send" to a publisher. That's $1,133,685 in USD.

## References

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081113060238/http://www.mundo-bd.fr/?page\_id=226
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081218141208/http://www.mundo-bd.fr:80/