The mini people

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Die Minimenschen (French original: Les petits hommes ) are a comic series invented by the Franco-Belgian draftsman and copywriter Pierre Seron in the 1960s, of which more than 50 albums were originally released (with some spin-offs), including in Germany to today about 30. The first publication took place from 1967 in the magazine Spirou .

The series and style of Seron, especially in its early stages, are clearly influenced by André Franquin and his classics Spirou and Fantasio .

Idea and action

The mini people are the inhabitants of a completely normal French provincial village, who one day are transformed into approx. 10-15 cm large miniature editions through contact with a meteorite. Since (initially) their situation presents itself in such a way that they also shrink all the people with whom they come into contact, they decide to move their entire village to cisterns that are no longer used under a castle. In the further course of the series, the cisterns are flooded by an accident and the mini people move into caves on a cliff by the sea. There they lead an idyllic, utopian life.

main characters

The hero of the series is Régis Renaud , a Mirage pilot who, thanks to the inventions of the ingenious Professor Joachim Hundsecker (French: Hondegger), has had exciting adventures with very advanced technology. As usual in Franco-Belgian Funny, he is supported by a number of more or less bizarre minor characters and recurring opponents.

Albums and German editions

The first stories about the mini people appeared as short stories as early as the 1960s. In 1974 the first album was released that tells the story of how mini people came about. The series appeared in Germany in the 1970s in loose succession in Fix and Foxi by Kauka-Verlag as Die Minis . At the beginning of the 1980s, Bastei-Verlag brought out a short-lived edition entitled Herbie Huppser und die Mikronauten , before Reiner Feest Verlag (part of the Ehapa Group since 1991 ) started a double edition in 1987 : Under the title Minis Classics , published in 5 Volumes the early short stories from the 1960s and under the title Die Minimenschen 21 volumes of the current series. The series has been published by Salleck-Verlag since volume 22 . Volumes 22 to 37 have been published so far.

Since autumn 2008 a complete chronological edition has been published in extensive anthologies by Ehapa-Verlag. Since anthology 12 was published in 2012, previously unpublished albums have also been published as part of the complete edition. In September 2013, the final edition, Volume 15, which contains the individual volumes 41 to 44, was published.

Erotic version

Between 1999 and 2009, Pierre Seron published six volumes of an erotic pastiche under the title Die Minimädchen , which were published in German by MSW (Medien Service Wuppertal).

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