The linea

La Linea is a television series of Italian animation created by the cartoonist Osvaldo Cavandoliand broadcast from 1971 on the Rai.

In France, the series is broadcast from8 janvier 1975on TF1 inVisitors from WednesdayandChildren's Islandin the 1990s on the Fifth inCellulo.

This series features a character with an imposing nose and body materialized by a unique line drawn in white on a colored uni background. With a greedy and bougon character, sometimes mockery but nevertheless enduring, it moves on a horizontal line that has only the will of the drawer’s pencil. This one, of which one sees only one hand holding a pencil, creates the universe of this anonymous elementary hero sometimes called “Balouor "Mr. LineaAccording to the countries. When he finds himself in front of a problem, Mr. Linea calls the cartoonist who adds, as he moves, the elements of the decor. At the end of the episode, Cavandoli usually lets his character fall into the void.