Pif gadget

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Pif gadget

description French comic magazine
First edition February 24, 1969
Frequency of publication weekly (1969–1993),
monthly (2004–2009)
Article archive Pif-collection.com

Pif Gadget was a French children's comic magazine published from 1969 to 1993 and from 2004 to 2009. It reached its greatest readership in the early 1970s.

history

The magazine was conceived as a magazine of the French Communist Party and was initially published illegally under the title Le Jeune Patriote under the German occupation of France from January 1942, then it appeared legally from 1944 to 1945. In 1945 it was renamed Vaillant, Le Jeune Patriote . In 1946 the title was shortened to Vaillant with the addition "le journal le plus captivant" ( the most fascinating magazine ) for easy readability . For the April 1965 edition, the title was changed to Vaillant, le journal de Pif , in honor of the prominently featured Pif , the cartoon character of a dog designed by José Cabrero Arnal . By 1969, like all of its competitors , Vaillant had printed serialized stories, but the magazine in that incarnation ended with issue number 1238 on February 23, 1969.

Pif Gadget started again with issue number 1, which was published on February 24, 1969 but kept the old number related to Vaillant . The magazine was initially sold as Pif et son gadget surprise for a few months . The term gadget was used in the sense of a "free gift" for each issue, including the very popular tadpole shrimp ( Pifises ), which readers could raise as tiny animals - they are known in the English-speaking world as sea ​​monkeys .

Pif Gadget's record circulation was one million copies, which was first reached on April 6, 1970 and again in September 1971. This represents a record that still exists for a European comic magazine. The magazine was also able to reach emerging countries and was one of the few selected western magazines that were also sold behind the Iron Curtain because it had emerged from a publication on the left. During the period of the decline of the Soviet Union, the number of readers dwindled, so that the content of the magazine was thinned out and the comic stories were stretched over several issues. The last major feature came out on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution in 1989. The original version of the magazine was last printed in 1993.

The magazine produced several international spin-offs such as Yps in Germany and Jippo in Finland. Claude Boujon was the magazine's publisher until 1972 .

Restart

The magazine was revived in 2004 under the aegis of Pif Editions with a circulation of around 100,000 units. With a debt of around 4 million euros, the 6-person company went into administration in March 2007 (redressement judiciaire). The company then went into liquidation (Liquidation judiciaire) on January 15, 2009 .

Super Pif has been published since 2015. The publisher is Patrick Le Hyaric .

The comics

Pif Gadget attracted the readers' interest because mostly only complete stories and no sequel stories were published. The published comic strips included:

Movies

  • Yps - a communist invention? , Arte documentation, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BDoubliées: / annees / 1945.htm Vaillant, le journal de PIF et Pif Gadget de 1945 . Retrieved August 27, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b BDoubliées: Vaillant, le journal de PIF et Pif Gadget de 1969 . Retrieved August 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ Couik et Dicentim chez les Nordiques
  4. ^ "Pif gadget" met la clé sous la porte , Le Monde , January 22, 2009.
  5. ↑ babelio.com
  6. ↑ Le Figaro: Pif Gadget devient Super Pif