Max und Moritz

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German comic: “Max and Moritz”

Max und Moritz

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Wilhelm Busch
…narratives with short verse-texts, including Max und Moritz, Der heilige Antonius von Padua, Die fromme Helene, Hans Huckebein, Dideldum!, and Herr und Frau Knopp. By 1910 more than half a million copies of Max und Moritz (which was the forerunner of “The Katzenjammer Kids”) had been printed in German, and…
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…narratives with short verse-texts, including Max und Moritz, Der heilige Antonius von Padua, Die fromme Helene, Hans Huckebein, Dideldum!, and Herr und Frau Knopp. By 1910 more than half a million copies of Max und Moritz (which was the forerunner of “The Katzenjammer Kids”) had been printed in German, and…
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Rudolph Dirks
There, inspired by Wilhelm Busch’s Max und Moritz, a picture story that Hearst had seen in Germany, Dirks, in 1897, created the “Katzenjammer Kids.” When he joined the New York World in 1912, he lost his right to the name “Katzenjammer Kids,” and so he renamed the strip for the…
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There, inspired by Wilhelm Busch’s Max und Moritz, a picture story that Hearst had seen in Germany, Dirks, in 1897, created the “Katzenjammer Kids.” When he joined the New York World in 1912, he lost his right to the name “Katzenjammer Kids,” and so he renamed the strip for the…
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