Rolf Kauka (9 April 1917 in Markranstädt, Saxony – 13 September 2000 in Thomasville, Georgia) was a German comic artist, most famous for the series Fix and Foxi .
In 1951, Rolf Kauka founded Kauka Publishing. Aside from Rolf Kauka's original comic characters, Kauka Publishing introduced to German audiences such international series as Asterix and The Smurfs from France and Belgium. [1] Some characters received Germanized names, for instance, Spirou & Fantasio / Pit & Pikkolo, Gaston Lagaffe / Jojo, etc. Kauka's translation of Asterix, called Siggi und Barbarras, controversially included far-right and Nazi revisionist subtexts, such as Anti-Americanism, Anti-Communism and Holocaust denial.
In 1973, Kauka sold his publishing house to the English publisher IPC and the Dutch publishing group VNU. He maintained his right of authority, but removed himself from the active publishing world. In 1975, he founded the Kauka Comic Academy in Munich, where he concentrated on the training and continuing education of young writers and illustrators. At the end of the 1970s the publishing consortium was dissolved and Bauer/VPM began publishing Fix & Foxi.
Kauka characters/series outside the Fuxholzen (Fix und Foxi) universe:
Rolf Kauka also directed the animated film Maria d'Oro und Bello Blue , which contains characters created by him. [1]
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Fix und Foxi was a weekly German comics magazine created by Rolf Kauka, which ran uninterrupted from 1953 until 1994. Re-christened Fix & Foxi, it was relaunched as a monthly magazine in 2000, 2005 and 2010 respectively. Since the end of 2010, publication has once again ceased. During its heyday it was one of the most successful German comics magazines.
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Notable events of 1953 in comics.
Notable events of 1967 in comics.
Fix & Foxi and Friends is an animated series and adaption of Rolf Kauka's comic series Fix and Foxi. In February 2000, Fix & Foxi first aired in Germany. 52 episodes were produced. Each episode consists of four segments, three of which stars the title characters and one or more of their friends and the last segment stars a family of anthropomorphic dogs called the Peppercorn Family. In addition, small snippets starring Makiki appear in between segments.
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Fix & Foxi is an international children's entertainment brand founded by the German company Your Family Entertainment. Themed around Rolf Kauka's Fix and Foxi characters, the name is used to operate television channels in multiple languages around the world.
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Foxi may refer to:
Events in 1917 in animation.