RanXerox

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RanXerox is an Italian comic from the 1980s. The authors Tanino Liberatore and Stefano Tamburini paint a picture of a brutal future in their story. Alain Chabat was added for the third volume .

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The hero of the story is the robot RanXerox, who out of love for its owner Lubna does everything to protect her and support her drug use . In the course of the story, business people want to use RanXerox to produce a Broadway show in New York about Fred Astaire with RanXerox as the programmed double, another time RanXerox is said to act as a modern gladiator in a chariot race, or Ranxerox is used as a courier for designer drugs.

Published titles

In 1983 the volume Ranxeron was published by Taschen Verlag. The original title was changed to Ranxeron to avoid problems with the copier manufacturer Rank Xerox . Two more volumes appeared in 1991 ( Aus Liebe zu Lubna ) and 1992 ( Kick in the trunk ) with Luxor. The third volume Amen! under the series title Ranx (Kult, 1997) was indexed in 1998 by the Federal Testing Office for writings harmful to young people .

Web links

  • Ranxeron. German Comic Guide , accessed on March 1, 2014 (data record of the first edition in Taschenverlag, but later publications are linked from there).