Yps

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Yps
YPS-Logo-2012-1024x732.png
Area of ​​Expertise Comic magazine for adults
language German
publishing company Egmont Ehapa Publishing House
First edition October 13, 1975
Frequency of publication 6 times a year
Sold edition 46,382 (average III / 2015-II / 2016) copies
( Source )
Web link yps.de
ZDB 749906-1

Yps was a German comic - magazine , which was published from 1975 to 2000 and from 2005 (test edition) to 2006 (3 test expenditure) in German-speaking countries as a magazine for children and was published from 2012 to 2017 as a comic book for adults. In October 2012, a test edition was first published, which was now aimed at 30 to 45 year olds who grew up with the magazine. The magazine appeared six times a year up to issue No. 1282.

A gimmick (often a toy or a joke article) was included with each booklet ; this set it apart from other comic magazines for young people in the first decades of its publication. In 1971 and 1972 the Rolf-Kauka-Verlag put a gimmick called Schnick-Schnack as an experiment with the comic Prima , later Primo , for 33 issues .

concept

The concept of Yps was based on the French magazine Pif Gadget , which originally was a youth magazine of the French Communist Party under the name Vaillant, le jeune patriote 'Vaillant, the young patriot' , which first appeared underground during the Second World War. In the 1960s, the magazine became much less political, but remained loosely affiliated with the Communist Party; the name was changed to Vaillant, le journal le plus captivant 'Vaillant, the most exciting magazine'. The later title character Pif le chien 'Pif the dog', which was invented in 1948 for short black and white strips in the communist daily newspaper L'Humanité , appeared in it for the first time in 1952 and became the main character in 1965. From 1967 it appeared under the title Vaillant, le journal de Pif . From 1969 the gadget (gimmick) was added and the magazine was restarted as Pif Gadget . It was then extremely successful for a number of years and is still setting unmatched records in the comics sector of more than a million copies sold in a single issue, which resulted in several international copycat and licensed editions, including the German Yps . Numerous gimmicks (such as the “Tadpole Shrimp”) and comics (such as Pif and Hercules ) were taken from Pif Gadget for Yps , but were supplemented from the outset by their own comics by German artists. In contrast to Pif Gadget , Yps has always been an apolitical magazine.

content

In addition to the comics, one focus of Yps was on creative occupation, in addition to the gimmicks that often had to be assembled, for example with handicraft sheets, which in some magazines reached the level of professional cardboard models (such as the models from New Scotland Yard or the Saturn V Rocket ), and background information, for example on scientific topics, which were sometimes based on the current gimmick. The level of these contributions was maintained in the first few years, later the emphasis was more on entertainment. Yps became very popular shortly after it was published and was one of the most successful and highest-circulation comic magazines of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Frequency of publication

Full body costume with kangaroo Yps at the Maker Faire 2016 in Berlin

The original edition by Yps (1975-2000)

Before the start of the series, the Hamburg publisher Gruner + Jahr published five test editions in the summer of 1975 only in Hesse. The eponymous kangaroo Yps was not yet featured in these issues, nor was the series Yinni and Yan , which was almost always represented from regular issue 1 until shortly before the series was discontinued. Instead, the gimmick was presented by the character Gulliver, which apparently did not resonate with the reader. Much of the comics was reused in the first regular editions. From October 13, 1975, the magazine appeared regularly on a weekly basis. Yps appeared in phase distribution , which means that not all editions appeared everywhere at the same time. In Bavaria, for example, the weekly output was always nine weeks behind that in the rest of Germany. In Austria and Switzerland, too, the published editions were not in sync with those in Germany. Therefore, the YPS booklets do not use any issue data, but were only numbered sequentially, which makes it difficult to categorize the various issues in time.

In 1999 the competing publisher Egmont Ehapa ( Mickey Mouse ) bought the rights to Yps from Gruner + Jahr. The frequency of publication has been changed to bi-weekly, the number of pages has been reduced from 48 to 32 and all long-standing comic series except the Yps-Kangaroo have been removed from the magazine. Due to the poor sales figures, the issue no. 1253 was discontinued for the time being. The last regular issue appeared on October 10, 2000 - three days before the 25th anniversary.

Trial new edition (2005-2006)

On August 18, 2005, after a five-year break, Egmont Ehapa Verlag published number 1254 with a print run of 150,000 issues. The publisher specified 23 to 32 year olds as the target group; apart from Lucky Luke and the Yps-Kangaroo, the magazine did not contain any comic series from the old days. From March 13th to May 8th, 2006 three more test issues were published. According to the company, the sales figures were not sufficient for a monthly Yps magazine. The publisher left open the option of continuing the series if the framework conditions changed or with a viable new idea.

  • No. 1254 (August 2005): The Money Machine
  • No. 1255 (March 2006): Tadpole Shrimp
  • No. 1256 (April 2006): Alarm system
  • No. 1257 (May 2006): Finger soccer

New edition (2012-2017)

On April 25, 2012, Egmont Ehapa announced that it would be relaunching Yps. The new Yps will deal with topics such as fashion, automobiles and technology. According to Egmont Ehapa, the “topics from then in terms of content and appearance should be translated into the current world of readers”. The magazine was called an “adult magazine” by the publisher because it is aimed at 30 to 45 year olds who grew up with the old Yps and wants to awaken childhood memories. The addition of gimmicks is also planned. Christian Kallenberg, former editor-in-chief of FHM magazine, will take over the editorial management . He announced that an attempt would be made to “transfer the spirit of Yps, this positive all-time try, to the new Yps”.

The first issue with an initial print run of 120,000 was published on October 11, 2012 (the 37th anniversary of Yps) at a price of 5.90 euros. This is a single issue. If successful, a regular publication cycle was planned from 2013 onwards. On October 13, 2012, the magazine was already sold out in most sales outlets, the Egmont-Ehapa publishing house's online shop also ran out of copies and the tadpole shrimp could not be delivered quickly enough for reprinted issues. A digital edition for the iPad was published on October 19, 2012 . As a result of this success, Yps has appeared regularly every three months since March 2013 and every two months since March 2015. In the second quarter of 2015, 60,593 issues were sold per issue. For the new editions of Yps published between 2012 and 2017, new comics were drawn by Yps & Co. With issue 1282, Yps was discontinued for the time being in September 2017 after advertising revenues collapsed and editor-in-chief Christian Kallenberg quit. No new editions have been planned since 2018.

  • No. 1258 (2012): Tadpole Shrimp
  • No. 1259 (2013): The machine that makes square eggs
  • No. 1260 (2013): Solar Zeppelin
  • No. 1261 (2013): The egg board to wipe yourself
  • No. 1262 (2013): The censorship glasses
  • No. 1263 (2014): Easter egg tree to go
  • No. 1264 (2014): The solar oven
  • No. 1265 (2014): Tadpole Shrimp XXL
  • No. 1266 (2014): The Survival Tool and Adventure Handbook
  • No. 1267 (March 2015): The magic box
  • No. 1268 (May 2015): The electric wind machine
  • No. 1269 (July 2015): The Yps kite
  • No. 1270 (September 2015): 3D puzzle of the Yps kangaroo (also the anniversary edition - 40 years of Yps)

...

  • No. 1282 (May 2017): The Boom Box for your smartphone (last edition, also anniversary edition - 5 years of Yps for adults)

Gimmicks

Various YPS gimmicks

The gimmick was a supplement to the magazine, for example a toy , and was intended to provide an additional incentive to buy. Gimmicks such as the LBs , agent and survival equipment , solar Zeppelin , magic tricks and submarine -Bausätze are legendary and have become cult objects . The gimmick in Issue 1 was a little spin - Catapult plastic. With a certain distance before booklet “No. 1 ”, however, a pilot booklet had previously been published whose gimmick consisted of two elongated capsules that tumbled down sloping surfaces through a small steel ball inside (the gimmick was later published in another booklet). Some gimmicks were controversial, for example with gimmick no. 263 (published on October 18, 1980) there were three real dead tropical butterflies in boxes and with the "Mexican jumping beans " the trigger for the jumping were live larvae of the moth Laspeyresia saltitans . There were also higher gimmicks that although most (Green Yps Extra, Yps special and Yps) were released in special editions, such as a MW - Radio ( crystal sets ) you can build yourself or minor technical model kits like the Mars caterpillar, a kind of Mars rover .

The most common gimmick were the tadpole shrimp ( Artemia nyos ), which appeared a total of 20 times as a supplement to the magazine, followed by the Yps adventure tent, which was 15 times a gimmick.

1 in edition No. - While the new edition (2012 to 2017) were - as already mentioned above. (Yps 1258) again Urzeitkrebse settled as a gimmick. Issue 03/2014 (Yps. 1265) contained “XXL tadpole shrimp” of the genus Triops longicaudatus . In this issue, Yps warned against releasing the "XXL tadpole shrimp" in the wild, as the "XXL tadpole shrimp" of American origin would displace the weaker German tadpole shrimp. In addition, it could cross with other species and create a new species of tadpole shrimp. In this context, NABU also warned against the unauthorized settlement of the American “XXL tadpole shrimp” in Germany.

In general, the different series were repeated annually in a slightly modified form, for example the adventure series (usually with the adventure tent ), the detective and the agent series . Often the comics by Yps & Co. or Yinni and Yan also referred to the gimmick. The detective series also often featured mystery thrillers, for example by Wolfgang Ecke to help you think and combine. The membership cards for agent or detective clubs or simply as a Yps member also became popular, whereby the focus was also placed on people of the same age to experience the gimmicks together.

Some of the Play-BIG and Playmobil figures, which were new at the time , were also used as gimmicks, some of them to be painted in yourself (the pens will be available in the next issue).

In the new edition from 2012–2017, many of the legendary “old” gimmicks appeared again in addition to the tadpole shrimp, such as the “solar oven”, the “Easter egg tree” as a “to go” version or the “machine that makes square eggs ".

Rubrics

(varies depending on the year)

  • Dear Yps fans
  • Üps Humor, including The Stupid Question of the Week (asked by Yps)
  • Yps news, including initially a flea market, pen pals wanted, Yps gallery (readers), painting school, price puzzles
  • Yps Gimmick (description)
  • Extra sheet (greetings, pen pals, Yps clubs, swapping, buying / selling)
  • Eckes puzzle thriller of the week
  • Crossword puzzle
  • The really true horoscope of the week
  • Cut-out sheet
  • Lexicon, e.g. B. mothers, plants, dinosaurs
  • Folding picture puzzle
  • Announcement next issue

comics

In the course of 25 years of Yps, a large number of comics were used, including well-known characters such as various Asterix or Lucky Luke series, which were cut into different editions, or Garfield in the later years . In the early editions up to around 1980 there were also photo series ( Black Beauty after the series of the same name) and a large number of realistically drawn comics (Davy Crocket, Peter Horn , Hombre, Thomas the Drummer, Wangaroo, Captain York, Gerfried, etc.) were hardly used later.

The numbers in the following list of the comics represented refer only to the period; the series were not necessarily represented in each of these editions:

In-house productions

  • Yps & Co. (from issue 1 as a one-page comic (Yps, Kaspar, Patsch and Willy) on the gimmick, from issue 88 additionally with independent stories)
  • Yinni and Yan (edition 1–1235, draftsman: Heinz Körner )
  • Schwyps and Gryps (issue 41–87, draftsman: Michael Forster )
  • Wangaroo the jungle child (from issue 83 to approx. 180, draftsman: Juan Arranz , copywriter: Roger Lécureux )
  • Captain York (issue 95–306, draftsman: Carlo Raffaele Marcello , copywriter: Roger Lécureux)
  • Ben's band (issue 112–331, draftsman: Marti (artist name of Marti Riera Ferrer), copywriter: Peter Wiechmann )
  • Mister Melone (issue 122–359, draftsman: Adolfo, ( Rojas ) / Comicon and Helmut Murek; copywriter: Peter Wiechmann, partly Rojas / Comicon)
  • Thomas the Drummer (Edition 132–196, draftsman: Josep Gual , copywriter: Jean Ollivier ), also published as an independent comic book:
  • Hombre (edition 145–252, draftsman: Rafael Mendez, copywriter: Peter Wiechmann), also published separately in book form:
  • Gespenster GmbH (issue 165–1239), draftsman: Josip (165–380), Rojas (450–616) (Comicon); Kipkacomics (617-1239); Copywriter: Peter Wiechmann, Fred Kipka , ( Kipkakomiks )
  • Gries, Gram & Grimm (issue 400-417)
  • Jimmy the rubber horse (issue 422-462, based on stories drawn by Roland Kohlsaat from 1953 to 1957 for the supplement Sternchen des Stern )
  • Punk Pirates (Issue 864–1233, drawn from Fred Kipka's company ( Kipkakomiks ))
  • Cybertoon (edition 1248–1253; copywriter and draftsman: Michael H. Musal)
  • Gerfried (e.g. in issue 318; draftsman: Coelho, copywriter: Ollivier)

License comics

Completed stories

  • Robin Ausdemwald (Originally Robin Dubois by Turk and De Groot , from issue 1)
  • Im Lande Löwenzahn (In the original Animal Crackers by Roger Bollen, issue 23-62)
  • Mammut (Issues 54–86)
  • Sheriff Dooley
  • Ragnar the Viking (Originally Ragnar , draftsman: Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, copywriter: Jean Ollivier, from issue 64)
  • Pif and Hercules (in the original Pif le Chien , from issue 75, first as Pif, the funniest dog in the world )
  • Piffi (Originally Pifou , from issue 131)
  • In the Valley of the Animals (In the original No Man's Valley by Harrie Geelen, Frank Fehmers Production, from issue 279)
  • Hubert & Muzo (in the original Placid et Muzo , issue 323–385)
  • Alix, the pirate's daughter (In the original Marine, fille de pirate , also known in Germany as the Mandarine by Pierre Tranchand and François Corteggiani , issue 337–359)
  • Arthur, the ghost (Originally Arthur le fantôme justicier by Jean Cézard , issue 386–442)
  • The Vultures (Originally Les Voraces by Glem and Raoul Cauvin , edition 1017-1028)
  • Dennis (Original title: Dennis the Menace and Gnasher , from the British magazine The Beano ) (Edition 1224–1253)
  • Garfield (by Jim Davis ) (edition 1226-1247)

Serial stories

Side rows

Logos of the German Pif Pocket (above) and the French original

In addition to the main series, there were numerous short-lived attempts to bring side series onto the market, especially in the 1980s.

  • Yps Comic-Band (1 issue, 1976. Reprint of the Hector comic series )
  • Pif Pocket (15 issues, 1980–1982. Paperback )
  • Yps-Extra (19 issues, 1980–1988. Series with more elaborate gimmicks at higher - and different from issue to issue - prices, mostly without comics)
  • Yps-Spezial (4 issues, 1981–1982. Priced between Yps and Yps-Extra, fixed price)
  • Yps-Grün (3 issues, 1982. Series without comics with plant gimmicks)
  • Yps Extra-Blatt (1 edition, 1987. Newspaper with classified ads, later some such pages were integrated into the Yps magazine under this title)
  • Yps Extra-Heft (1 edition, 1993. On the topic of dinosaurs )

The Pif Pockets No. 1 and No. 6 were gimmicks for the Yps issues 239 (May 5, 1980) and 298 (June 20, 1981), the other issues were available in newsagents. Issue No. 16 was announced for March 1982, but never appeared.

In 1982 there was also a Swedish edition of Yps . In addition, two radio plays by Yinni and Yan and the Yps friends (Yps, Kaspar, Patsch and Willi) were released on LP and MC in the early 80s .

Illustrator

Yps - the broadcast

Yps - Die Sendung is a knowledge magazine that Endemol beyond produces for RTL Nitro . Moderated by Jan Köppen , the first program was broadcast on December 2, 2013 at 9:05 p.m. After the pilot program nominated for the Grimme Prize , a first ten-episode season was ordered, which has been on the air every Thursday since April 3, 2014. The second season has been aired since April 17, 2015.

Similar foreign magazines

  • Pif Gadget (France, 1969–2009), Super Pif, since 2015
  • Pif gadget in Spain, Canada, Hungary and Romania
  • Jippo-lehti (Finland, 1977–1982), as well as Sweden and Denmark
  • Billiken (Argentina), isolated editions from the 1980s
  • Più - e il suo Gioco (Italy from 1982, Editoriale Domus publishing house). From 1987 further offshoots such as Maxi Più

Movies

  • Yps - a communist invention? , Arte documentation, 2014.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ noz.de: Yps from 1975 to today
  2. ↑ ypsfanpage.de: Review YPS No. 1259
  3. ↑ web.de: New "Yps" booklets for big boys ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.de
  4. ↑ a b Yps will be discontinued , topfree.de, September 21, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Five years after the comeback: "Yps" is taking a break after the editor-in-chief has left , dwdl.de, November 17, 2017
  6. ↑ Kaukapedia
  7. ↑ "Yps" is back - including Tadpole Shrimp derstandard.at, accessed on October 11, 2012
  8. ↑ Yps booklet comes back: At 35, still become a secret agent . In Süddeutsche Zeitung on April 25, 2012
  9. ↑ Issue with gimmick: "Yps" is coming back . In Spiegel Online from April 25, 2012.
  10. ↑ Gimmicks Yps returns for its old readers on golem.de from April 25, 2012
  11. ↑ meedia.de: Yps reprint fails due to tadpole shrimp
  12. ↑ Already sold out at the kiosk: cult magazine Yps now also digitally on the iPad ( memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: appblogger.de from October 19, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.appblogger.de
  13. ↑ wuv.de: Aimaq von Lobenstein becomes "Yps" agency
  14. ↑ Focus.de: “Yps” will appear quarterly
  15. ↑ Anja Janotta: "Yps" wins innovation award. Advertise & Sell , March 24, 2015, accessed May 23, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Egmont Ehapa Media GmbH, media data 2016 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ From comics fan to professional draftsman: How an artist from Kassel breathes life into the Yps booklet ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , hessenschau.de , April 11, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hessenschau.de
  18. ↑ Oliver Gerke shows Yps originals in Eiterhagen , hna.de, March 21, 2017
  19. ↑ Egemont Ehapa puts “Yps” on hold , clap-club.de, November 10, 2017
  20. ↑ ypsfanpage.de: The top 20 of the most frequently published gimmicks, accessed on November 27, 2008
  21. ↑ YPS with Gimmick No. 1265: The XXL Tadpole Shrimp. Star Command Communiqué, December 22, 2015, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  22. ^ "Yps" booklet warns Triops breeders: do not suspend! - Will we soon be threatened by monster tadpole shrimp? bild.de , October 21, 2014, accessed on October 16, 2018 .
  23. ↑ YPS with gimmick no. 1264: The solar oven. Star Command Communiqué, December 15, 2015, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  24. ↑ YPS with gimmick No. 1263: The Easter egg tree. Star Command Communiqué, December 15, 2015, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  25. ↑ YPS Fanpage - The Easter Egg Tree. Yps Fanpage, accessed on October 16, 2018 .
  26. ↑ YPS with gimmick no. 1259: The machine that makes square eggs. Star Command Communiqué, December 8, 2015, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Ypsography ( Memento from April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  28. ↑ comicartfans.com: Marcello: Planche de Captain York
  29. ↑ YPS comic competition: The winner - Interview with Martin Tazl , comic-report.de, November 20, 2013
  30. ↑ [1]
  31. ↑ Alexander Krei: "Yps" goes TV: RTL Nitro makes magazine with Köppen . DWDL.de. October 7, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
  32. ↑ Manuel Weis: RTL Nitro: Grimme-nominated “Yps” continues . Oddsmeter.de. January 30, 2014. Accessed February 1, 2014.
  33. ↑ Encirobot
  34. ↑ Mikimoz Blog
  35. ↑ Yps - A Communist Invention? Documentation France 2014, arte. programm.ard.de, January 13, 2018, accessed April 25, 2018 .