tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post6620860539852738594..comments2024-01-01T21:31:27.654-08:00Comments on UNCLE EDDIE'S THEORY CORNER: FUNNY GERMAN CARTOONISTSEddie Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07729949238666234774noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-18903455222796163422014-07-30T10:47:51.309-07:002014-07-30T10:47:51.309-07:00Seeing the Katzenjammer Kids reminds me of a Mad M...Seeing the Katzenjammer Kids reminds me of a Mad Magazine parody called the Catch-and-hammer Kids by Harvey Kurtzmann and Bill Elder, which I used to read over and over again when I was very young. In fact I don't think I ever actually saw the Katzenjammer Kids till much later.Dan Chambershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18133320689848797620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-62966979836239365512014-07-29T22:23:33.789-07:002014-07-29T22:23:33.789-07:00Rick: Many, many thanks for the interesting info. ...Rick: Many, many thanks for the interesting info. German speaking countries and German Americans did so much to pioneer the comics. I wish I knew more about what cultural influences brought that about. Eddie Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07729949238666234774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-54415219262644493002014-07-29T17:10:49.197-07:002014-07-29T17:10:49.197-07:00I agree up and down, with minor notes. Toppfer was...I agree up and down, with minor notes. Toppfer was Swiss, but of his course his lineage was German. Feininger's parents were born in Germany, but he was born in the US. He moved to Germany I think in 1887, moved back here in Hitler's fourth year, 1937. Although he was an active cartoonist for German magazines (social cartoons --> political cartoons, anti-American during WWI) he did Sunday pages for the Chicago Tribune, also comic illustrations for nonsense stories by John Kendrick Bangs in Harper's Young Folks magazine. You could also mention two VERY influential German cartoonists in America, Thomas Nast and Joseph Keppler, founder of PUCK. (Technical note, merely: Opper's ancestors were Austrian -- on his mother's side he was descended from Aaron Burr -- and Keppler was Viennese).Rick Marschallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05042725183037008281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-55443913863684659832010-01-21T13:32:24.818-08:002010-01-21T13:32:24.818-08:00I'm not sure if I named the cartoon, so I'...I'm not sure if I named the cartoon, so I'll say (again?) that the name is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100912/" rel="nofollow">Werner Beinhart</a>.Austin Papageorgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09228591957697880302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-9581301098383803012010-01-21T13:29:54.722-08:002010-01-21T13:29:54.722-08:00This is kind of late, but just look at these clips...This is kind of late, but just look at these clips from a German animated feature from the 90s!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgERvJBLR4w" rel="nofollow">Here</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BxsNp6SbS8" rel="nofollow">And Here</a><br /><br />There's also a moment where someone dresses up as a Hitler like charater, but I can't find the clip!Austin Papageorgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09228591957697880302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-74944587632927108372010-01-16T08:30:24.832-08:002010-01-16T08:30:24.832-08:00Sure, sure, Eddie. I don't know that these pa...Sure, sure, Eddie. I don't know that these painters are "objectively most deserving", but I do think exposure to their works would be an asset to cartoondom. Perhaps all the portentious cultural hooplah makes our artists in the popular vein shy away from them.<br /><br />Are you workin', Eddie? With Spumco on ice, are you booked elsewhere?<br />In any event, hopes you're well and drawing.Kirk Nachmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03166276704512053376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-60704166754231578452010-01-15T17:04:06.599-08:002010-01-15T17:04:06.599-08:00K. Nacht: Good Lord! You cut me to the quick! I lo...K. Nacht: Good Lord! You cut me to the quick! I love the artists you mentioned. If I have a bias toward cartoonists, it's because I am a cartoonist, and I naturally write about what I know. <br /><br />If we all devoted our blogs to the objectively most deserving we'd have millions of blogs about Pasteur, Newton and Farraday, and maybe not so many about artists like ourselves.Eddie Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07729949238666234774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-16735591106956975282010-01-15T14:37:52.451-08:002010-01-15T14:37:52.451-08:00I, too, prefer Feininger's comic strips to his...I, too, prefer Feininger's comic strips to his later Blau Rieter/Expressionist paintings. But you can't blame the man for partaking in German modernist painting, as it was an exciting time for pictors. I'll never understand why all you cartoonists will pour over the most saccharine old illustrations, but never seem to venture an appreciation for the very cartoony paintings of George Grosz, Otto Dix, and the lesser known Georg Scholz. For that matter the cartoon landscapes of Yves Tanguy! We love to talk about the surrealism of Clampett, but somehow stop short of going beyond Dali's Persistence of Memory.Kirk Nachmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03166276704512053376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-87863801916714739272010-01-13T22:49:14.816-08:002010-01-13T22:49:14.816-08:00Joel: A good selection. I wouldn't be surprise...Joel: A good selection. I wouldn't be surprised if Bob and Tex were influenced by Busch. I wish i knew for sure.Eddie Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07729949238666234774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-66151311948024916882010-01-13T22:45:51.463-08:002010-01-13T22:45:51.463-08:00Mark: I just looked up Politenessman! Thanks for t...Mark: I just looked up Politenessman! Thanks for the tip!<br /><br />Diego: Wow! Interesting wartime art! Gracias!<br /><br />Brubaker: Wee Willie's was great! If only there had been more!<br /><br />Jack: The German connection is in lots of articles about the time, but I don't have any at hand. <br /><br />Kellie: Thanks much! I'll look it up!<br /><br />Justin: Haw! I hope that's true!Eddie Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07729949238666234774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-51956479633229293852010-01-13T15:01:03.472-08:002010-01-13T15:01:03.472-08:00While I have some knowledge about the history of c...While I have some knowledge about the history of comic strips I never considered the "German Influence".<br /><br />Did you get this idea out of a particular book or did you come upon the theory on your own?Jack G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11582354325563283998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-42312975451654851532010-01-13T12:47:03.767-08:002010-01-13T12:47:03.767-08:00Such a shameful waste of talent in Germany.Such a shameful waste of talent in Germany.Steven M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17284662120928553055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-51803403483937712252010-01-13T11:59:58.714-08:002010-01-13T11:59:58.714-08:00Eddie, here you can find German Nazi cartoons from...Eddie, <a href="http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm#Posters" rel="nofollow">here</a> you can find German Nazi cartoons from war time. Have you seen those? <br /><br />By the way, great post, I've got the complete works of Wilhelm Busch next to the Smithsonian collection of Newspaper Comics on my bookshelf since last December, and I've been thinking a lot about this. Thanks.diego cumplidohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06033104257927433913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-55071045170961253802010-01-13T09:48:16.052-08:002010-01-13T09:48:16.052-08:00Hairbreadth Harry looks like it might have been th...Hairbreadth Harry looks like it might have been the inspiration for Politenessman, a strip by cartoonist Ron Barrett that ran for years in National Lampoon. He even looks like him. Politenessman would ignore the most outrageous behavior for the sake of correcting some silly slight of manners.Mark Simonsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05502203954575171730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-55732905929585048932010-01-13T08:51:33.929-08:002010-01-13T08:51:33.929-08:00Sometimes having pressure against being funny make...Sometimes having pressure against being funny makes the artist strive more to be funny and creative. While we had too much freedom and too little restrictions, the sub-conscious motive becomes less.changzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15092879836981888129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-30747332789047236212010-01-13T08:02:20.381-08:002010-01-13T08:02:20.381-08:00I'll always appreciate Lyonel Feininger.
I fi...I'll always appreciate Lyonel Feininger.<br /><br />I find it interesting that he's pretty well known among comics fans, especially if you consider that his two strips were very short-lived. "The Kin-der-Kids" and "Wee Willie Winkie's World" each only lasted six months in print. And considering that they were both Sunday-only features, that means there were only about two dozen strips made for each.<br /><br />It says alot that Lyonel's strips stand out among the sea of short-lived strips. It is a shame that they never made it.Brubakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741995395720022279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-12405432378922432372010-01-13T07:45:18.182-08:002010-01-13T07:45:18.182-08:00I was surprised to see how many visual gags animat...I was surprised to see how many visual gags animation borrowed from<br />Busch and had some examples on my blog here:<br /><br />http://joelbrinkerhoff.blogspot.com/search?q=buschJoel Brinkerhoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16367156808507565022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-64952102933565690572010-01-13T05:59:51.309-08:002010-01-13T05:59:51.309-08:00Sufferin' Saurkraut, John is right.....AGAIN!Sufferin' Saurkraut, John is right.....AGAIN!Zoran Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01257217002413486395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-59842215188147460892010-01-13T02:36:40.506-08:002010-01-13T02:36:40.506-08:00I love Wilhelm Busch, and like Hairbreadth Harry q...I love Wilhelm Busch, and like Hairbreadth Harry quite a bit. The story goes that the creator of Harry fell into cartooning by accident, after the regular newspaper cartoonist didn't show up in the office.Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17641021856477898999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28525168.post-15556655892918827892010-01-13T02:29:01.837-08:002010-01-13T02:29:01.837-08:00Hairbreadth Harry is terrific. Some long stories f...Hairbreadth Harry is terrific. Some long stories from the daily strip were reprinted in the '80s in Nemo magazine (Fantagraphics), issues 14 and 15, maybe other issues too, I'm not sure.kelliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03503738414917449549noreply@blogger.com