MOFF. - Hader's fine scrapbook

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MOFF. - Haderer's Feines Schundheftl is a monthly comic by the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer , which picks up on and satirizes current socio-political issues.

MOFF. notebooks

Editorial policy and content

In one to multi-page comic strips , Haderer expresses himself on topics such as Austrian asylum policy or the Catholic Church. In MOFF. Austrian politicians like Alfred Gusenbauer , Werner Faymann , Josef Pröll or Maria Fekter meet in the sandpit. Civil servants who do nothing appear as well as TV speakers with speech impairments. In addition to socio-political issues, various Austrian dialects play a role, such as the Upper Austrian dialect, which Haderer brings to life with the figure of the Bul (poodle).

title

The letters M, O, F, F, of the title have no real meaning. This is a spoken language ( onomatopoeia ), like the "POFF!" And "ZACK!" or "ARGH". The subtitle "Haderers feines Schundheftl" refers to the comic medium, which used to be often referred to as junk literature.

expenditure

The first edition of MOFF. was published on May 18, 1997 by Scherz & Schund Verlag. The first series was planned as a three-year project and consists of 36 issues.

After a break of eight years, Gerhard Haderer started his comic MOFF. again on April 18, 2008. Since then, a new issue has appeared every eighteenth of the month. The current comic books are published by Scherz & Schund Fabrik and are available in tobacconists and bookshops across Austria as well as by subscription .

format

All editions appear in Piccolo comic format . In contrast to his caricatures, Gerhard Haderer draws his MOFF. Figures in black and white. The title page and the back are excluded.

Projects

The published editions resulted in a series of events called "Steinhauer reads MOFF.", Which premiered in 2009 at the Posthof in Linz . The Austrian actor and cabaret artist Erwin Steinhauer interprets the characters and stories from the comic while the drawings are projected onto the screen.

The publisher Scherz & trashy factory has four MOFF. movies produced in which Gerhard Haderer without cutting (in a camera setting features) for a choreography to music.

In 2011 the Krems Caricature Museum presented a comprehensive MOFF exhibition for the first time.

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