Cohl continued work with Éclair throughout this debacle, mostly making newsreel inserts. Based on the few fragments that remain, the series "Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés" ["Adventures of the Leadfoot Gang"] may have been the best work of Cohl's career. It was based on a working class comic strip by Louis Forton about a gang of anarchistic youngsters constantly getting into trouble with both the criminal underground and the law. The series was terminated by the war, as the Éclair-Journal studios were occupied to make American war propaganda.