GER100 Lecture Notes - Father And Son (Comics), The Katzenjammer Kids, E. O. Plauen
16 Mar 2013
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Professor malone"s current research is in this field of study. One of his friends took his comics and showed it to goethe. Es funkelt alles von talent und geist! Bisschen mehr zusammenn hme, so w rde er dinge machen, die ber alle begriffe. Wilhelm busch: max und moritiz, 1865. Rudolph dirks: the katzenjammer kids, 1897 (still running, longest running comic ever) Was seen as childish; a means to keep kids distracted and idle. America is the freest land in the world! Ha ha ha ha ha! karl arnold, simplicissimus 25 (1922) This would lead to illiteracy and hooliganism: kmoch: tobias seicherl, 1932. The comic almost exactly predicts the outcome of hitler"s reign during wwii. Austrians made good anti-semites, but terrible nazis e. o plauen (erich ohser) When he ended the series went back to political activism. Got arrested by the gustapo and committed suicide in jail. Action comics #1 (june 1938); cover by joe shuster.
