Grand Prix (Comics Series)
Grand Prix is a Franco-Belgian comic series by Marvano , published from 2010 to 2012, about the beginnings of car racing in Germany in the 1930s.
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In the period between the two world wars, car racing was an extremely popular sport in Europe. The races, spectacular and deadly, drew tens or hundreds of thousands of spectators. The three-volume series takes place in the 1930s, during the rise of the National Socialists, and connects this with a fictional story about the historically correct events in racing. Closely connected with this are the fates of the various racing drivers such as Hans Stuck , Rudolf Caracciola or Bernd Rosemeyer , who were hyped up to be heroes of the time by the National Socialists. At the beginning of the 1930s, the two German car manufacturers Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union were supported by the National Socialists with large financial resources in order to develop victorious racing cars. The legendary birth of the Silver Arrows fell into this period , as did the record runs of the British Malcolm Campbell .
Origin / conception / style
Marvano said he had been carrying around for a while with the idea of telling a story that took place before the Second World War. Around 2007 he came across a biography of Rudolf Caracciola, one of the greatest racing drivers of the 1920s and 1930s, in a second-hand bookstore. While reading this book, it quickly became clear to him that racing and its idols would be the dreamed-of introduction to the story of the interwar period.
In the foreword of the first volume (written by racing driver Jacky Ickx ) the series is described as a "documentary fiction". In addition to the fictional main character Leslie Toliver, many prominent contemporaries of the 1930s appear, and historical facts are repeatedly incorporated.
“Marvano doesn't judge, has neither sympathies nor antipathies. He tries to remain a neutral rapporteur. A chronicler of the time who does not yet have the foresight of the present. And that the whole world was wrong back then, is shown by the statements of German Jews or the (historically guaranteed) cover of Time Magazine with Hitler as “Man of the Year”. ”( Christian Recklies : splashcomics.de).
Publications
In the French-language original, the albums were published by Dargaud between 2010 and 2012 .
From 2011 to 2014 it was reprinted in sequels in the comic magazine Zack in Germany . All three parts were also published as albums between September 2012 and October 2015 by Mosaik Steinchen for Steinchen Verlag .
Marvano then created a new comic series set immediately after World War II ( The Jewish Brigade ). This story is loosely linked to Grand Prix , so the fictional characters Leslie Toliver and Erika Pasternak also appear there.
| No. | German title | Magazine imprint in Zack | Original title | ISBN (of the German edition) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rebirth | # 145 - # 148 (Jul to Oct 2011) | Renaissance (2010) | ISBN 978-3-864-62019-5 |
| 2 | Rosemeyer! | # 155 - # 159 (May to Sep 2012) | Rosemeyer! (2011) | ISBN 978-3-864-62067-6 |
| 3 | Goodbye | # 171 - # 175 (Sep 2013 to Jan 2014) | Goodbye (2012) | ISBN 978-3-864-62122-2 |
Web links
- Grand Prix at Dargaud (French)
- Grand Prix (Volume 1) at Mosaik Verlag
- Interview with Marvano , Goethe-Institut Brussels, November 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Marvano. (No longer available online.) Goethe-Institut Brussels, November 2012, archived from the original on December 10, 2015 ; Retrieved December 9, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ Christian Recklies: Grand Prix - Intro to the new racing series. splashcomics.de, June 25, 2011, accessed November 19, 2015 .
