Rowohlt red fox
The Rowohlt red fox , or rororo red fox , is the mascot of the rororo red fox series by Rowohlt Verlag and the main character in a comic series. The Rowohlt Rotfuchs was created by Jan P. Schniebel in 1972 and is still drawn by him today.
The first comic was a variation on the story Fox, You Stole the Goose . The fox does not eat the goose, however, but sells it to buy red fox books. Later the fox completely emancipates himself from the familiar literary and mythological references and makes his own jokes.
Book series rororo red fox
The book series was originally published by Uwe Wandrey in April 1972 . The logo of the book series is a simply designed red fox, which is partly behind a black rectangle, the text logo. The actual cartoon character is magenta in color. A short comic is on the back of each book, under the booklet.
The book series includes picture books as well as stories, reports and novels for older children and young people. A large part of it is also intended for use in schools. Some books, including Bumfidel and Das Getüm , also appeared as audio books on records on the Poly label .
One of the most famous titles in the series is the book Vorstadtkrokodile .
literature
- Martin Otto: A child hero who was in jail. Jan P. Schniebel's comics from "Rotfuchs" shaped a whole generation. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 5, 2013, p. 28.
- Corinna Norrick-Rühl : Panther, Rotfuchs & Co. rororo paperbacks for young target groups in the social upheaval of the 1970s and 1980s . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014. (Dissertation JGU Mainz, 2013).