Oskar (comic)

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Oskar is the best known comic figure by the German cartoonist Cefischer . The stories of Oskar and his family appeared in the Frankfurter Illustrierte from 1952 to 1962 and were reprinted in book form during this time and afterwards.

Plot and publication

Oskar is an anthropomorphic tomcat who is torn between his duties as a father of a family and an enormous need for leisure time. Together with his wife, who is always called Mutti , he has five children who want to do pranks all the time. Together the family wages a guerrilla war against ill-tempered neighbors and unwanted visitors. Oskar appeared, sometimes as a comic strip with up to four pictures, sometimes as a single postcard-sized joke picture, from 1952 to 1962 in the Frankfurter Illustrierte and was reprinted in book form from 1954, beginning with Oskar, the father of the family . Further reprints followed in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The series was suggested by Werner Wirthle , the then publisher of Frankfurter Illustrierte , who had met the cat Felix while on a trip to England and wanted something comparable for his magazine. The pictures were painted by mouth by Cefischer as he lost both arms in an air raid during World War II .

reception

According to Andreas C. Knigge , Oskar is "next to father and son , Nick Knatterton , Mecki and Jimmy the rubber horse one of the most famous German newspaper series". Likewise, for Eckart Sackmann Oskar is "one of the most popular comic characters of the post-war period".

Based on the figure of Oskar , the Frankfurter Illustrierte donated a silver award of the same name, with which prominent animal rights activists were honored.

literature

  • Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics - History of a Popular Form of Literature in Germany since 1945 . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , p. 44.
  • Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 196.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 196.
  2. ↑ Eckart Sackmann: Cefischer . In: Eckart Sackmann: Deutsche Comicforschung 5 (2009) , Verlag Sackmann and Hörndl, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-89474-190-7 , pp. 84–98.
  3. ↑ Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics - History of a Popular Form of Literature in Germany since 1945 . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , p. 44.