Otto and Alwin
Otto and Alwin are the main characters in comics by the graphic artist and illustrator Jürgen Günther , which appeared from October 1974 to June 1981 as a sequel to the GDR children's magazine FRÖSI with one page per issue . Later they were mainly found in puzzle comics. Moreover, the figures were also 50 picture cards, so small image accompaniments for chewing gum in the GDR as a licensed production made West German mark OK Big Babaloo used.
The content of the comics was the adventures of the orangutan Otto, who fell in green color and who became friends with the penguin Alwin in episode 17 . In 1984 an anthology of the individual pages previously published was published. The two characters from the comic were also used in Christmas calendars, handicraft sheets and other FRÖSI supplements. New comic stories with the two characters were reprinted in the new edition of Frösi in 2005. A complete edition was published in book form three years later.
literature
- Udo Lemke, Jürgen Günther, Herta Günther (ed.), Guido Weißhahn (ed.): Otto and Alwin: Complete edition. Holzhof Verlag, Dresden 2008, ISBN 3-93-950999-X