Tom Puss

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Sculpture in Rotterdam

Tom Puss (from the left : Tom Poes ) is the best-known comic figure of the Dutch comic artist Marten Toonder .

development

In the Netherlands, the adventures of the anthropomorphic tomcat Tom Puss first appeared on March 16, 1941 in the daily De Telegraaf . However, according to Andreas C. Knigge and Franco Fossati , Tom Puss was developed as early as 1938, but initially only published in Argentina and Czechoslovakia . In the third episode on Telegraaf , Tom Puss received a regular companion in the also anthropomorphic bear Oliver Bommel (left: Olivier B. Bommel ). From November 28, 1947 to June 1951, Tom Poe's Weekblad was a weekly comic newspaper in the Netherlands that contained not only the title character but also other protagonists.

From 1955 Tom Puss appeared in sequels in the Dutch weekly Donald Duck . The last story of Tom Puss & Hr. Bommel was published in 1986. While the character of Tom Puss was initially designed as a target group for small children, in the 1960s and 1970s the comic was aimed more at teenagers and young adults. It was also used in cartoons and as an advertising medium.

In the beginning, the comics with Tom Puss did not contain any speech bubbles, instead the text was arranged exclusively below the images. This was not changed until 1945.

In German-speaking countries, Tom Puss appeared at Carlsen between 1983 and 1985 . In addition, it was published under the title Pussy Tom in the children's magazine Pony , published by Bastei-Verlag .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marten Toonder on lambiek.net (Dutch) , accessed on April 17, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comics , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 217.
  3. ^ Franco Fossati: The great illustrated Ehapa Comic Lexikon , Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 260.
  4. ↑ Tom Poes Weekblad on lambiek.net (Dutch) , accessed April 17, 2013
  5. ↑ Tom Puss on comicguide.de , accessed on April 17, 2013
  6. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 433.
  7. ↑ 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. 148.