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Plunk is a Belgian comic series created by Luc Cromheecke and Laurent Letzer, and published by Dupuis. So far three albums have appeared.

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The comics are pantomime comic [1] /gag-a-day short stories (most often between one and four pages long) about the misadventures of Plunk, a little pink alien with green trousers and a green hat from the planet Smurk.

History

Plunk was first created in the late 1980s for the Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art as a fictional example of the merchandising that can be produced with successful comic figures like The Smurfs or Peanuts . [2] In 1990, he became a character in Taco Zip, the comic strip by Cromheecke which appeared at the time in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant . [3] These comic strips were later reprinted in four albums and twenty years later in one collection.

A decade later, Plunk became the central figure in a series of very short animated movies, commissioned by VTM, the major Flemish commercial TV station. The plan abandoned before any of these shorts were ever broadcast though. [4]

In 2007, Plunk was again revived, this time to get his own series. The Plunk stories are prepublished in Spirou magazine (French language), in Gazet van Antwerpen and Het Belang van Limburg (Dutch language), and sometimes on the Plunk-blog maintained by Cromheecke. [5]

The first two albums of Plunk were nominated at the Stripschapprizes (the major comics awards in the Netherlands) for the Award for Best Dutch Language Youth Comic in 2007 [6] and 2008. [7]

Since 2008, Plunk is the mascotte of the award for the best Dutch language short comic story, the Plastieken Plunk, awarded by the comics magazines Plots and Pulp Deluxe. [8] From 2004 until 2007 this award was given by Pulp Deluxe alone, but it was renamed after Plots joined. [9]

Plastieken Plunk winners

Plastieken Plunk audience award

Notes

  1. ↑ "Luc Cromheecke".
  2. ↑ Interview with ActuaBD about the first Plunk comic
  3. ↑ "Luc Cromheecke".
  4. ↑ Interview in Flemish cultural magazine Guido
  5. ↑ "Luc Cromheecke".
  6. ↑ Stripschap 2007 nominations
  7. ↑ Expovisie list of 2008 nominees
  8. ↑ "Luc Cromheecke".
  9. ↑ "Plastieken Plunk". Pulp Deluxe. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2011.

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