Junior (children's magazine)
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| Area of Expertise | Children's magazine |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Hug-Verlag AG ( Switzerland ) |
| First edition | 1951 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| editor | Hug-Verlag AG |
| Web link | www.junior.ch www.junior.de www.junior.at |
JUNIOR is a customer magazine for children that is distributed in Germany , Austria , Switzerland and the Netherlands . Various industries use them as customer gifts for children and their families. In Germany, JUNIOR is mainly dispensed through pharmacies in a pharmacy issue and by opticians in an optician issue.
history
JUNIOR was invented in November 1951 by the Swiss Hans-Rudolf Hug, the grandfather of today's publisher Julia Hug. The intention of the small-format magazine was to give retailers a gift for children that would counterbalance the emerging comics. Education, upbringing and morals were the focus in the first issues of JUNIOR.
comics
The children's magazine regularly publishes the following comics:
| Surname | Illustrator | action |
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| Junior and Klexx | Beat Sigel, Oli Sasse since 2020 | The title character and her motley dog experience shared adventures that often lead to confusion with the magic bone. |
| The Borstels | Jörg Peter | A family in the country, whose daughter Trixi is the focus and supports the clumsy but ingenious inventor father Willibald with his crazy ideas |
| The string quartet | Riccardo Rinaldi , since his death Ivica Litric | Grandma, Grandpa, Julia and Jan play pranks on each other. |
| The crime thriller gang | The child detectives Lia & Lu investigate, the reader has to come up with the solution himself. | |
| Fur & feathers | Odenthal Illustration GbR | Barky the dog, Alice the cat and Elvis the bird experience hair-raising adventures together. |
In earlier times, comics with the character Papa Moll invented by Edith Oppenheim-Jonas were published; in addition, short Popeye strips and "Henry" by Carl Anderson were also represented at times.
Edition
With almost 1.2 million copies per month ( IVW and WEMF-tested), JUNIOR is one of the highest-circulation publications for children in Europe. Due to the circulation in the French-speaking Switzerland and in the Netherlands, the magazine appears in three languages.