Robinson (comic)

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Robinson was the best-known comic series that was published in the 1950s and 1960s by Gerstmayer Verlag and its bogus publishers. This comic was mainly drawn by Willi Kohlhoff and Helmut Nickel .

Plot and people

The comic, based on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe , is about the traveler Robinson, who, accompanied by the boy Xury and the Portuguese Gracia, travels to distant lands, while Gracia regularly has to be rescued by Robinson from a wide variety of dangerous situations. Overall, Robinson's island existence takes up little space compared to other Robinsonads and the series later completely breaks away from the literary model. The Sidekick Xury was designed in such a way that, in contrast to the serious and heroic Robinson, it provided the comical note.

Draftsman and publications

Robinson appeared in the years 1953 to 1964 with Gerstmayer Verlag and its associated publishing houses Verlag für Moderne Literatur, Titanus Verlag, Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Gerstmayer and Druck- und Verlagsanstalt with a total of 222 booklets; only up to number 125 were first editions, after which only repetitions were published. Originally only black and white, the comic was converted to four-color printing while production was running . In 1957, parts of the booklets published up to this point were reprinted in Piccolo format . There were further reprints as a Robinson special issue and as a so-called Robinsonade . Parts of the series were published as Comixene special volumes in the 1970s . In 1979 and 1980, Norbert Hethke Verlag reprinted the first 125 issues in the series in a total of 32 edited volumes.

It was planned to discontinue Robinson after just a few issues and to replace it with Kohlhoff's Tajo Tagori series , but due to numerous reader protests the Gerstmayer Verlag felt compelled to abandon this project.

Issue numbers 1 to 7 and 9 to 18 were drawn by Kohlhoff, who, interrupted by issues 20 and 21, which were drawn by Helmuth Steinmann, was replaced by Nickel, who was also responsible for issue number 8 due to Kohlhoff's absence due to vacation was. The change of draftsman was due to the fact that Kohlhoff took on a job as a police draftsman and was therefore no longer available to the publisher as a draftsman.

reception

According to Andreas C. Knigge counts Robinson "the finest comic book series of the Golden Age. '" For Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff “the frequent confrontations of the hero, who is connoted as a Nordic gentleman, with all kinds of 'savages' have embarrassingly racist traits”. But Dolle-Weinkauff praises Nickels Robinson's “differentiated historical, geographical and ethnological color”

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 , pp. 125–129.
  • Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 343.
  • Eckart Sackmann: Helmut Nickel , RRAAH! No. 56, Volume 15, August 2001, ISSN  0933-601X , pp. 32-33.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 127.
  2. ↑ a b Robinson in Gerstmayer Verlag on comicguide.de , accessed on July 14, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c 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. 170.
  4. ↑ Robinson as Piccolo in Gerstmayer Verlag on comicguide.de , accessed on July 14, 2012
  5. ↑ Helmut Nickel on comicguide.de , accessed on July 14, 2012
  6. ↑ Robinson in Norbert Hethke Verlag on comicguide.de , accessed on July 14, 2012
  7. ↑ Helmuth Steinmann on comicguide.de , accessed on July 14, 2012
  8. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 122.
  9. ↑ Eckart Sackmann: Helmut Nickel , RRAAH! No. 56, Volume 15, August 2001, pp. 32–33, ISSN  0933-601X , here p. 33.
  10. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 118.
  11. ↑ 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. 126.
  12. ↑ 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. 129.