Comic in the GDR
The term " comic " was considered too western in the GDR and was therefore disreputable. So the idea arose in the GDR to create something of their own in the tradition of Wilhelm Busch and Heinrich Zille that could be countered with the trash from the West. Mid-fifties, the cartoonist was Hannes Hegen by Verlag Neues Leben commissioned comic strips to make, but should not be seen as a comic book as possible. 1955 appeared with " Atze " and " Mosaik " the first comic booklets in the GDR. "Mosaik", in which Hegen's picture stories of the goblins Dig, Dag and Digedag could be read, became the figurehead of the GDR comics. The Abrafaxe , created by Lothar Dräger and Lona Rietschel , inherited from Digedags in 1975 in the magazine "Mosaik". Like all media in the GDR, the comics were not free of propaganda instrumentalization.