Winnie Winkle

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Winnie Winkle (originally: Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner ) was an American comic strip that appeared between 1920 and 1996. Its creator was Martin Branner , who, with the support of various assistants (including Robert Velter in the mid-1930s ), drew the strip until 1962. Branner's successor was his longtime assistant Max van Bibber.

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The comic strip revolves around the office and love life of Winnie Winkle, with the latter being in the foreground. Winnie works as a stenographer at Barnaby Bibbs to support her parents financially. Winnie's parents later adopt a boy named Perry, who became the main character on the Sunday site as the leader of a gang called the Rinkydinks. In 1937, Winnie was married to Will Wright, but her husband disappeared from the scene a few years later. Max van Bibber introduced Winnie's daughter, Wendy.

publication

Winnie Winkle first appeared on September 20, 1920, the first Sunday page appeared on April 2, 1922. The figure of Perry in particular was very popular in Europe. Perry's adventures appeared in the Netherlands under the name Sjors van de Rebellenclub , which were later continued by Dutch illustrators with a different style. In France, Perry Winkle's stories were circulated under the name Bicot . There Jean-Claude Forest was one of his draftsmen.

Kalle, the rascal king

Perry Winkle's adventures appeared under the name Kalle, der Lausbuben-König from September 3, 1933 to December 29, 1935 in a total of 121 episodes in German-speaking countries in the magazine Neue Jugend . A book with the subtitle 60 funny pranks was published in 1935 by the Berliner Zeitschriften-Verlag and was banned in 1938 when it was added to the list of harmful and undesirable literature . It was only included in the catalog of the German National Library after 1945.

In Kalle, the rascal king , all copyright notices and Branner's signatures were removed so that the origin of the comic, with one exception, could no longer be identified.

In the 1950s, German translations by Sjors appeared in the women's magazine Libelle , also under the title Kalle, der Lausbuben-König .

Adaptations and effects

According to Andreas C. Knigge , Winnie Winkle served as a model for a number of comic strips with female main characters that were newly created in the 1920s. Knigge also blames the success of the comic for the fact that Joseph Medill Patterson influenced Harold Gray in such a way that Little Orphan Annie got a girl as the main character.

Winnie Winkle was filmed several times in the 1920s. In addition, she was a popular protagonist in the so-called eight pagers .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Article on britannica.com , accessed June 18, 2009
  2. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 187.
  3. ^ Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 279.
  4. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 62.
  5. ^ Sjors van de Rebellenclub at lambiek.net (Dutch) , accessed on June 18, 2009
  6. ^ Jean-Claude Forest at lambiek.net (English) , accessed on June 18, 2009
  7. ↑ a b c Gerd Lettkemann: Otto Schoff's "Mucki" as a transformation of a US strip. In: Eckart Sackmann (Ed.): Deutsche Comicforschung 2009. Comicplus, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 3-89474-190-2 , pp. 79-80.
  8. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 77.
  9. ^ List of harmful and undesirable literature , Leipzig, as of December 31, 1938, page 68 (mentioned on berlin.de )
  10. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued - Comic culture in Germany . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 57.
  11. ↑ Gerd Lettkemann: Otto Schoff's "Mucki" as a transformation of a US strip. In: Eckart Sackmann (Ed.): Deutsche Comicforschung 2009. Comicplus, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 3-89474-190-2 , p. 83.
  12. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 54.
  13. ↑ Martin Branner on imdb.com (English) , accessed on June 18, 2009