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Aleen (aleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:47:23 JST Aleen
- Glenn Fleishman
Barely even a couple of hundred dollars until @glennf's latest Kickstarter is funded!
I'm an 80s/90s kid who grew up with Sunday funnies; I'm really excited to learn more about their history.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made

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  Glenn Fleishman (glennf@twit.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:51:37 JST Glenn Fleishman
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  @thomasfuchs @aleen I am hoping that I will get to learn more about newspaper cartoon culture elsewhere—there are precious few materials I’ve found in searching. I have some Swedish ones and I saw some in Paris as part of an exhibition of an amazing publisher/designer/store last year.
  
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  Wolfgang Stief (stiefkind@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 23:38:13 JST Wolfgang Stief
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  @thomasfuchs @glennf @aleen Not to forget "Fix und Foxi": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fix_and_Foxi
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    Fix und Foxi was a weekly German comics magazine created by Rolf Kauka, which ran uninterrupted from 1953 until 1994. Re-christened Fix & Foxi, it was relaunched as a monthly magazine in 2000, 2005 and 2010 respectively. Since the end of 2010, publication has once again ceased. During its heyday it was one of the most successful German comics magazines. History of the comic In 1947, Rolf Kauka founded Kauka Publishing. In May 1953, his first comic book, Till Eulenspiegel, appeared. The characters in the comic book were loosely based on German folklore. Apart from the legendary jokester as the main character, it featured an adaptation of Baron Munchausen as well as animal characters such as Reineke Fuchs (Reynard the Fox) and Isegrim Wolf (Isengrin). In issue number 6, the fox characters Fix and Foxi first appeared in a short comic story. They soon became the favorites of the readers and from issue number 29 the comic book was retitled Fix und Foxi.Apart from Germany, Kauka found experienced illustrators in Yugoslavia, Italy and Spain. Over the years, they created more than 80...

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