Little Annie Fanny

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Little Annie Fanny is an erotic comic strip that was published in the men's magazine Playboy from 1962 to 1988.

Creation, draftsman and plot

After their departure from Mad , Will Elder and Harvey Kurtzman created the cartoon character Goodman Beaver, among others . One for Help! A drawn episode entitled Goodman Goes Playboy had the characters from Archie appear in Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion , which led to a lawsuit with Archie Comics that resulted in an out-of-court payment and transfer of ownership of the episodes in question to Archie Comics. As a result, Elder and Kurtzman received an offer from Hefner to create a comic for Playboy , as Hefner wanted a satirical series for Playboy .

Alluding to Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie , Elder and Kurtzman created the comic strip about a tall and curvaceous blonde who finds herself naked in almost every adventure. The comics, which were made using the direct coloring technique , contained a number of parodies , including those of the FBI and Women's Lib .

Supporting comics included Frank Frazetta , Russ Heath , Jack Davis , Al Jaffee , Larry Siegel and Robert Crumb . In August 1998, the strip was briefly revived.

Publications

The first story, entitled Madison Avenue , was published in October 1962. Until 1988, strips of inconsistent scope appeared at irregular intervals. A book was published in 1966. Dark Horse Comics brought out two anthologies in 2000 and 2001 with the stories of Little Annie Fanny .

Stories by Little Annie Fanny appeared in German in 1979 with Zweiausendeins and in 1984 with Heyne Verlag .

reception

According to Andreas C. Knigge , with Little Annie Fanny “the slipperiest dreams of Playboy readers [...] were fulfilled in Annie's adventures - and at the same time targeted”; but he criticizes the "pseudo-critical form" of the comic strip. Harald Havas finds Little Annie Fanny "remarkable in many ways", since the comic strip is not only "political" but also "at the time of its creation the most elaborate comic in America". According to Marcel Feige , Little Annie Fanny made comics "interesting for adults".

literature

  • Andreas C. Knigge: Sex in comics . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-548-36518-3 , pp. 198-199.

Individual evidence

  1. Tim Pilcher: Erotic Comics - The Best of Two Centuries . Knesebeck Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86873-190-3 , p. 86.
  2. a b c d Andreas C. Knigge: Sex in comics . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-548-36518-3 , pp. 198-199.
  3. ^ A b Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 160.
  4. a b c d Marcel Feige : The little comic dictionary . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-544-9 , pp. 476-477.
  5. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 278.
  6. Russ Heath on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on September 9, 2014
  7. a b c d Little Annie Fanny on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on September 9, 2014
  8. Playboy's Little Annie Fanny on worldcat.org , accessed September 9, 2014
  9. Playboy's Little Annie Fanny. Volume 1, 1962-1970 on worldcat.org , accessed September 9, 2014
  10. Playboy's Little Annie Fanny. v.2, 1970-1988 on worldcat.org , accessed September 9, 2014
  11. Harvey Kurtzman on comicguide.de , accessed on November 12, 2018
  12. Harald Havas : Comic Worlds. History and structure of the ninth art , Edition Comic Forum 1992, ISBN 3-900390-61-4 , p. 221.