Comixes
| Comixes
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| description | German comic magazine |
| First edition | 1974 |
| ISSN (print) | 0174-2205 |
Comixene is the oldest German trade magazine on the subject of comics .
history
1974-1982
The first comixene appeared in November 1974 and was completely black and white . The editors were the young comic fans René Lehner , Thilo Rex and Andreas C. Knigge . Knigge and Rex knew each other from school, the older René Lehner Rex met at a comic exhibition. Lehner gave the impetus to turn Knigges and Rex's Fanzine Comics Maker into an internationally oriented magazine based on the model of the Dutch strip script or the French Phénix .
The new "international comic fan & specialist magazine Comixene" quickly became a household name and the authors were invited to comic festivals in Italy or France. The publisher was called Lehner & Knigge and was initially based in a shared apartment in Hanover. Cover topics were Walt Disney , Hergé and Hansrudi Wäscher or cross-genre topics such as “Technology & Architecture”.
With issue 18 in March / April 1978, the magazine got a colored cover and the volume increased to 56 pages. With issue 19 Hartmut Becker and Achim Schnurrer joined the editorial team. The publishing house became Edition Becker & Knigge as a GmbH, in which, in addition to the magazine, albums such as Jimmy the Rubber Horse and secondary literature such as Bilderfrauen Frauenbilder appeared. The 72-page comixene contained not only factual texts but also comics, including the comic version of the cartoon Asterix conquered Rome under the title 12 examinations for Asterix , which was never published in Germany . From 1980 the magazine appeared monthly and had an eight-page, colored middle section that was reserved for serial comics. The edition was 10,000 copies. There were also reviews, dossiers, comic strips, news, appointments, a page of comic lexicon or “animated film notes”. On the price bar of the cover not only the purchase price of 5 DM or ATS 40, - was noted, but also Duckburg: 5 thalers .
The concept changed with issue 43 in February 1982. Only Comixene newsletters with 16 and later 8 pages appeared. With the 50th edition in October 1982, the Comixene stopped its publication. The reason was financial bottlenecks, and litigation and legal costs had devoured the profit - the publisher had been sued because of a review.
1994-1996
As Edition B&K , Thomas Bleicher and Joachim Kaps (who later became the publishing director of Carlsen Comics and then Tokyopop ) tried again after twelve years with no. 51. The magazine was full-color, the volume was 100 pages. The initial price of 12.80 DM went down to 9.80 DM. Financial and professional burdens prevented permanent publication of the magazine. The final issue was number 57 in March 1996. Nevertheless, Joachim Kaps was satisfied, because without Comixene he would probably never have ended up with Carlsen.
1998-2002
At the turn of the millennium there was no new edition of the Comixene . At the beginning of 1998 the Karicartoon Verlag published the bimonthly (later also monthly) magazine Hit Comics instead , which reported as a specialist magazine on comics with a focus on superheroes . Hit Comics Verlag , the later publisher Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst (JNK for short), took over the publication of the issue with number 26 . In September 2002, number 34 marked the end of the series as a comic book magazine (from 2004 to 2006 and issues 35 to 39 there were still comics for Savage Dragon and others).
2003-2012
From 2003 to 2012, the Comixene was published by JNK-Verlag and thus took the place of Hit Comics . With a monthly publication from No. 58, occasionally a double issue, more color and the price of initially 5 €, later 6 €, we got off to a good start. Topics initially included anime , Disney , mangas in Germany, Toni Greis or the numerous comic book adaptations such as Spider-Man 3 or the X-Men films. For Comic Salon Erlangen an extra thick notebook appeared each with a detailed program. As of 2007, the price per issue was € 9. Since the end of 2011, a booklet has cost € 5.90. With issue 115 the publication of the magazine was stopped for the third time.
Since 2015
The Comixene has been appearing again since August 2015 (# 116), this time under the editorship of co-founder René Lehner at the Rätselfactory Lehner publishing house . The subject area has been expanded to include the medium of cartoon and reports for active comic artists, and the graphics and concept have undergone extensive changes.
Comixene materials
In addition to the booklet at the time, two publications of secondary literature on the subject of comics appeared as Comixene Materials in album format:
- 1978: Bilderfrauen Frauenbilder , ISBN 3-88464-010-0
- 1979: The Children of the Flying Robert , ISBN 3-88464-011-9
literature
- Andreas C. Knigge: Everything about comics. A journey of discovery from the cave pictures to the manga , Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-203-79115-3
Web links
- Comixene , website since 2015
- Comixene at Deutscher Comic Guide
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comixene No. 42, September 1981, "In my own case ..." (p. 51 f.)
- ↑ Interview: Joachim Kaps ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Comicgate.de; Retrieved August 11, 2010
