Wumo

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Wumo , formerly Wulffmorgenthaler , is a webcomic and newspaper comic strip by the Danish author / artist duo Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler. The name of the strip was created by combining the duo's surnames. A satirical television series of the same name was broadcast in Denmark in 2005 on channel DR2 . In June 2012 the name was changed to Wumo .

history

Wumo first appeared in 2001 as an entry in a comic strip competition called Kalzone and was only completed a few hours before the deadline. The strip, submitted under the pseudonym “Pernille Richter Andersson”, won the competition and with it as the main prize the Comicplatz for one month in the newspaper Politiken . The comic was published from 2002 regularly in the cultural portal of the website of Danmarks Radio (DR), and in October 2003 he was part of the daily output of policies.

The German daily newspaper Die Welt published the comic strips on its website from November 22, 2010 to January 27, 2016.

Since June 2012, Wumo has been published daily in Politiken (Denmark), Aftonbladet ( Sweden ), Dagbladet ( Norway ), Helsingin Sanomat ( Finland ) and, only online, in De Telegraaf ( Netherlands ) - as well as on its own website, wumo.com. As of November 2013, Wumo has appeared in magazines across the United States , including the Washington Post and the New York Daily News , which replaced the comic strip Get Fuzzy with Wumo. Since March 2014, Wumo has also replaced the Doonesbury comic strip in the New York Times .

Style and content

The comic has its own style, the appearance of which is characterized by curved lines and apparently computer-generated colors. Most comics consist of just a single panel. This avoids the traditional multiple panels that suggest a passage of time. Recurring characters are more of a running gag than a legitimately continued story.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The “world” laughs at these Danish caricatures. - welt.de. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ Last Wumo comic strip from January 27, 2016 on the Welt website (February 6, 2016, Internet archive), accessed on July 20, 2018