Rip Kirby

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Rip Kirby (also Rip Korby ) is a comic strip founded by the American cartoonist Alex Raymond and the author Ward Greene . The series is about the detective Rip Kirby , who, together with his butler Desmond , has to solve difficult criminal cases in the USA in the 1940s.

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The ex- Marine Rip Kirby is on the one hand a gentlemanly detective and on the other hand a recognized scientist. In his detective work, too, he usually appears in a tuxedo, glasses and a pipe, but his military training has also grown into fights with criminals. He listens to classical music and employs a butler, former burglar and thief Desmond. His longtime girlfriend is the model Honey Dorian . As a humanist, Kirby is convinced that criminals can fundamentally be rehabilitated , which sets him apart from hardboiled detectives of the 1940s.

Emergence

Returning from his service in World War II, illustrator Alex Raymond was made the offer for a detective series. Raymond gave his successful comic strips like Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim to other cartoonists and from then on only devoted himself to the series Rip Kirby for the King Features Syndicate . Ward Greene provided the lyrics. The first episode appeared on March 4, 1946. The series was very successful and Raymond was honored with the Reuben Award in 1949 . In 1956, after the accidental death of Alex Raymond, the series was taken over by the cartoonist John Prentice and the copywriter Fred Dickenson. The last episode came out on June 26, 1999.

German translations

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Older German-language publications in newspapers and in book form ( Pollischansky Verlag) vary the name in Rip Korby . The translator is Hermann Urbanek . A complete edition with a revised translation, published in 2018, comes from the Bocola Verlag ( Rip Kirby: The Complete Comic Strips ). This complete edition received the Munich comic award Peng! In 2019 . from the Munich comic festival in the category Best new release of a classic .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juergen Weber: Comic Noir: Rip Kirby, the first modern detective on rezensions.ch (article from August 19, 2018, accessed October 27, 2019)
  2. ↑ Holger Bachmann: With deduction to success - "Rip Kirby" published on December 3, 2018 on comic. The magazine for comic culture (accessed October 27, 2019)
  3. ↑ German National Library: Rip Korby: [Rip Kirbi; German] (accessed on October 22, 2019)
  4. ↑ Rip Korby (B207). Comic strip in the Neue Kronen Zeitung from January 16, 1979, No. 6692 p. 32
  5. ↑ Michael Hüster: Achim Dressler: Rip Kirby is a really wonderful and timeless title contribution from July 5, 2018 on Peter Poluda Medienvertrieb (PPM) , accessed on October 24, 2019