Kipkakomiks

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Kipkakomiks is a German comic studio based in Munich that has been designing, producing and selling comics for German-speaking countries, Scandinavia , Spain , France and Indonesia since 1988 .

Products

The company's best-known product was the Sparkasse comic Knax , which was produced by Kipkakomiks until 2004. But Kipkakomiks was also involved in the production of other well-known comics such as Mickey Mouse , Fix and Foxi or Yps .

Kipkakomiks offers all phases of comic production like

In addition to his own productions, Kipkakomiks translates, revises and licenses foreign comics. The publisher had by 2011 Syndikationsrechte of United Media for the German-speaking world, with famous comic strips such as Tarzan , The Peanuts or Dilbert . At that time, Kipkakomiks said it had over 80 different license trips on offer. In 2011, these syndication rights were transferred to Bulls Press .

Besides Kipkakomiks operates the sole licensing for printing the ShowView codes (z. B. in program guides ) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Company history

Kipkakomiks was founded by Fred Kipka (actually Alfred Kipka, born 1950), who is the managing director to this day. In the early 1970s, Kipka had worked for Kauka Verlag under Rolf Kauka as the responsible editor and then went into business for himself. Together with Peter Wiechmann , the former managing director of Kauka Verlag, Kipka founded the comic service studio Comicon , the comics for Germany and other countries in a Spanish production studio ( COMICUP ) in Barcelona towards the end of the 1970s (according to other sources in 1980) produced. At the beginning Comicon mainly produced Kauka comics for the Pabel-Moewig Verlag, later on the production of Knax and series for Yps such as Gespenster GmbH or Punk Piraten was added.

In the 1980s Wiechmann moved to Spain to be closer to the draftsmen, and the successful Wiechmann / Kipka duo broke up. The Kipkakomiks service agency in Munich, founded by Kipka in 1988, emerged from their separation and continued to work closely with the studio in Barcelona. In the same year Wiechmann founded a new company in Barcelona under the name Comicon SL Kipkakomiks continued the production of Knax and the series for Yps , while Comicon SL continued the productions of Egmont Ehapa Verlag , including the production of various Disney comics for the European market .

Storyboards , scribbles , final artwork and coloring (hand or computer) for the Kipkakomiks productions are still made in Barcelona today . Fred Kipka himself wrote the scripts for all Knax comics for over 20 years . Production of Knax ended for Kipkakomiks in 2004; the comic has been produced by a different team since issue 3/2004.

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