Bob Heinz (comic artist)
Bob Heinz (actually: Wilhelm Hermann Heinz ; * January 25, 1923 ; † July 24, 1984 ) was a German comic artist and author.
Heinz, who spent his earliest childhood in the Sudetenland , went to school in Dresden and later studied architecture . In 1943 he designed a series of postcards under the name Willi Heinz for Winter Aid . After the war, he settled in Plön and taught as a sports teacher. From 1949 he published drawings in various magazines under the pseudonym Bob Heinz . At the beginning of the 1950s, he drew various series for the advertising newspaper Tchibo Magazin , including his only realistic series, Bob Evans . Heinz also drew the series Pit and Alf and Jan Maat for Walter Lehning Verlag in the 1950s . Later, feeling that he was under pressure from Lehning, he worked for the Swedish Williams publishing house. In the 1970s he drew jokes and comics for magazines published by Bauer Verlag as well as various covers for comic books for television series.
Other series that Heinz, who often signed his drawings with HeiBo , drew during his career were Waul and Paul , Jerry , Winki and Flinki and Jimmy and Bobby . A special characteristic of the figures he drew were the bulbous noses.
Works (selection)
- Joan Aronsten (texts), Bob Heinz (illustrations): Charly, the concrete mixer . Scholz-Mainz, Wiesbaden 1960.
- Bob Heinz: For little draftsmen . Buch-und-Zeit-Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-8166-9015-7 .
literature
- Andreas C. Knigge : To be continued - comic culture in Germany . Ullstein Verlag , Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 146, 147 .
- Andreas C. Knigge: Comic lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 244 .
Web links
- Bob Heinz at lambiek.net (English)
- Literature by and about Bob Heinz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , p. 45 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinz, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinz, Wilhelm Hermann; Heinz, Willi; HeiBo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comic artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1923 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1984 |