Bannock (food) than a bread dough. Selkirk bannock from Scotland is well-known and named after the town in the Scottish borders where it is traditionally made. It is a spongy, buttery variety, sometimes compared to a fruitcake, made from wheat flour and containing a very large quantity of raisins. The first known maker of this variety was a baker named Robbie Douglas, who opened his shop in Selkirk in 1859. When Queen Victoria visited Sir Walter Scott's granddaughter at Abbotsford she is reputed to have taken her tea with a slice of Selkirk bannock, thus ensuring that its reputation was enshrined forever.
Boule et Bill were first published by Dupuis, then from 1988 by Dargaud. Cinebook has published three books in English, with "Boule and Bill" renamed "Billy and Buddy", respectively. "Boule et Bill" is among the best-selling French-language comics, with 300,000 copies for the new album by Verron in 2009. In 2013 a Belgian-French-Luxembourgian film was released, "Boule et Bill", based on the comics. It stars Franck Dubosc as the father, Marina Foïs as the mother, and Charles Crombez as Bill. It received bad reviews, but was commercially successful enough to warrant a sequel "Boule et Bill 2", released in 2017. Four animated television