Adamson (cartoon character)

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Adamson was the most famous character of the Swedish cartoonist and comic artist Oscar Jacobsson and the title character of the comic book of the same name. The Adamson comics, often without words , were so popular around the world that parallel versions were created in the United States under the title Silent Sam . For Andreas C. Knigge , Adamson is "undoubtedly the most successful Swedish comic strip".

Origin, plot and distribution

In 1920 Jacobsson was commissioned to draw a comic strip for the Swedish weekly newspaper Söndags-Nisse . The result was the failures experienced by a small cigar smoking man with three protruding hairs, who appeared for the first time in number 42 of the Söndags-Nisse of October 17, 1920. Just a year later, the first comics were reprinted in book form. From 1922 the comics were reprinted in American daily newspapers under the title Silent Sam .

Jacobsson kept the comic, which made do with short sequences of images and often without words, until his death in 1945. After that, Adamson was continued by the Danish illustrator Viggo Ludvigsen until 1964. From 1965 on, old strips were reprinted. Parallel to the stories by Jacobsson and Ludvigsen, in the United States from 1935 to 1940 by Henry Thol and from 1941 to 1953 by Jeff Hayes Adamson adventures were also published under the title Silent Sam .

Between 1924 and 1928 the Berlin publishing house Dr. Selle-Eysler AG a total of six volumes with Adamson stories. Further Adamson stories in German were published by Rowohlt Verlag in 1954 , Bertelsmann Verlag in 1976 and Knaur in 1982 .

In Italy, the comics were published in the children's newspaper Corriere dei piccoli from 1930 under the name Omobono . Further publications were made in China and Japan, among others.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 262.
  2. ↑ a b Oscar Jacobsson on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 8, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Adamson on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed March 8, 2013
  4. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 215.
  5. ^ Henry Thol on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 8, 2013
  6. ↑ Jeff Hayes on lambiek.net (English) , accessed March 8, 2013
  7. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 40.
  8. ^ Oscar Jacobsson on comicguide.de , accessed on March 8, 2013