"The first collection of ""Andy Capp"" cartoons was published in 1958. The strip became internationally popular, appearing in at least 700 newspapers in 34 countries, including the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" in the USA. The punning title resisted translation: in Sweden it was titled ""Tuffa Viktor"", in Germany ""Willi Wacker"", in Austria ""Charlie Kappl"", in Italy ""Carlo e Alice"", in France ""André Chapeau"", in Turkey ""Güngörmez Dursun"" and in Denmark ""Kasket Karl"". In 1982 an ""Andy Capp"" musical was produced, starring Tom Courtenay with music by Alan Price, first in Manchester, later in London, and then to great success in Finland. A"
"I veteran. She commented on the shortages plaguing the German populace, the state of the war and she launched subversive tirades against the Nazis, turning them into a laughing stock. ""Frau Wernicke"" became one of the most popular programs of the BBC's German Service. Adler wrote the satirical series ""Kurt und Willi"" with the Scottish poet Norman Cameron. It featured two characters, a teacher named Kurt Krüger and Willi Schimanski, an official in the German Ministry of Propaganda. So skilled was the character Willi as a propagandist, that he was reputedly much admired within the actual Nazi Ministry. Adler later"
"Afghan percussionist Hakim Ludin. • ""Wunderkinder"" Deutschland 2013 Konstantin Wecker Konstantin Alexander Wecker (born June 1, 1947, Munich) is German singer-songwriters (""Liedermacher""); he also works as a composer, author, and actor. Classically educated at the Wilhelmsgymnasium, Wecker got one of his first jobs as a songwriter at Munich's cabaret ""Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft"" in 1973. His breakthrough as a singer came in 1977 with the record ""Genug ist nicht genug"" (""Enough Is Not Enough""), which includes the popular talking blues ""Willy,"" about a presumably close friend of Wecker's who was slain by drunken Nazis. Wecker has released more than forty"
"Willi und die Windzors Willi und die Windzors (lit. ""Willi and the Windzors"") is a 1996 German comedic television film. Produced under the impression of the continued scandals surrounding members of the British Royal Family during the mid-1990s, the parody film presents an alternate history in which Britain becomes a republic, resulting in Queen Elizabeth II and her family (the Windsors, which is deliberately misspelled in the title) being expelled from their country and moving in with relatives in Germany. The film was directed by Hape Kerkeling, who also appears as the titular character, Willi Bettenberg (cf. Battenberg and the"
"Nick Knatterton Nick Knatterton is the name of a West German comic strip and the name of its main character, a private detective. The strip was drawn by (1913–1999) from 1950 to 1959. It was initially released in the German magazine Quick. The visual style of the comics is cartoony, but still realistic enough for the comic to be taken as a (at least mostly) serious detective comic. It is characterised by its unique style of humour, most of which derives from allusions to current political affairs in the Federal Republic of Germany of the 1950s. The name Nick Knatterton"
"adapted into two films: 2007 and 2008 German based ""Der Audio Verlag"" published Nick Knatterton radio dramas in German. Nick Knatterton Nick Knatterton is the name of a West German comic strip and the name of its main character, a private detective. The strip was drawn by (1913–1999) from 1950 to 1959. It was initially released in the German magazine Quick. The visual style of the comics is cartoony, but still realistic enough for the comic to be taken as a (at least mostly) serious detective comic. It is characterised by its unique style of humour, most of which derives"
"Otto Waalkes Otto Gerhard Waalkes (born 22 July 1948) is an East Frisian comedian and actor. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and movies. His perhaps most famous trademark are the 'Ottifanten' ('Ottiphants'), elephant-like comic characters of his own design. They featured on the cover of his first album release. He shares a close friendship with tennis player Steffi Graf, who also makes an appearance (as herself) in the movie ""Otto – Der Außerfriesische"". He has one child (""Benjamin Karl Otto Grigori Waalkes"") with his first wife Manuela Ebelt, and was later"
"Konstantin Wecker Konstantin Alexander Wecker (born June 1, 1947, Munich) is German singer-songwriters (""Liedermacher""); he also works as a composer, author, and actor. Classically educated at the Wilhelmsgymnasium, Wecker got one of his first jobs as a songwriter at Munich's cabaret ""Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft"" in 1973. His breakthrough as a singer came in 1977 with the record ""Genug ist nicht genug"" (""Enough Is Not Enough""), which includes the popular talking blues ""Willy,"" about a presumably close friend of Wecker's who was slain by drunken Nazis. Wecker has released more than forty albums, and has also composed music for film,"
"the Month's Bestsellers. Almost a year later, ""Wicked Willie's Low-down on Men"", had reached number 6 in the same chart. Wicked Willie Wicked Willie is a humorous British cartoon character, personified as a talking penis, created by Gray Jolliffe (illustrator) with Peter Mayle. He first appeared in the book, ""Man's Best Friend"", published in 1984. He has subsequently appeared in ""Wicked Willie - The Movie"", and the board game, The Wicked Willie Game. Jolliffe says that the idea for Wicked Willie came to him one day, while he was in the bath. A more detailed history of Wicked Willie is"
"and a revised theme song omitting any mention of her being a witch. Lilly the Witch Lilly the Witch (also known as Lilly in the UK) is an animated television show based on the ""Lilli the Witch"" book series by German author, Knister. The series debuted on TVOKids in Canada on 4 September 2004, and later premiered on KiKA in Germany one month later. ""Lilly the Witch"" focuses on the adventures of the titular character, an average young girl who one day stumbles upon an ancient, magical book and befriends its caretaker, Hector, a chubby dragon who comes to life"
"name is due to the fact that the early Dutch publications of ""Suske en Wiske"" called him ""Lambiek"". The emblem on the store's sign is an image from the ""Suske en Wiske"" story ""Prinses Zagemeel"" (""Princess Sawdust"") (1947-1948) and represents Lambik's metamorphosis into a centaur. Spike and Suzy Spike and Suzy (British title), Willy and Wanda (American title) or Luke and Lucy (in a 2009 film and video game); Dutch: Suske en Wiske, ) is a Belgian comics series created by the comics author Willy Vandersteen. It was first published in ""De Nieuwe Standaard"" in 1945 and soon became popular."
"in Germany, they took over the journal where Weisz worked. As a member of the Jewish community with expressed socialist opinions, Weisz decided to leave Germany. In 1935, he came to the United Kingdom, and worked for the ""News Chronicle"", ""Daily Mirror"" and ""Evening Standard"". He maintained an independent stance, whatever the political hue of his employers (Liberal, Labour and Conservative respectively), and built a reputation as an incisive commentator on political events. At the ""Daily Mirror"", Weisz published the ""Nazi Nugget"" series. By the 1940s, Weisz, using the pseudonym ""Vicky"", was one of the leading British left-wing cartoonists. Weisz"
"Oliver Welke Oliver Welke (born 19 April 1966 in Bielefeld) is a German television presenter, actor, comedian, voice actor and sports journalist. Welke studied journalism at the University of Münster, graduating in 1993. He then worked in a number of fields and eventually became a rather well-known sport journalist and presenter. Together with Oliver Kalkofe, whom he met while working for a public radio station, he provided the German voices for """" (as Crow T. Robot) and the British comedy show ""Little Britain"", and also co-wrote the script for the crime film parody ""Der WiXXer"". Since May 2009, Welke has"
"Victor Weisz Victor Weisz (25 April 1913 in Berlin, Germany - 22 February 1966 in London, England) was a Hungarian-British political cartoonist, drawing under the name of Vicky. Weisz was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hungarian-Jewish parents. He studied at the Berlin School of Art and by 1928, at the age of fifteen, he was working as a freelancer, drawing caricatures. His father committed suicide that same year and Weisz began work with the journal ""12 Uhr Blatt"". His work also appeared in other German newspapers. Weisz's cartoons took a very strong anti-Nazi stance. When the Nazis came to power"
"Lilly the Witch Lilly the Witch (also known as Lilly in the UK) is an animated television show based on the ""Lilli the Witch"" book series by German author, Knister. The series debuted on TVOKids in Canada on 4 September 2004, and later premiered on KiKA in Germany one month later. ""Lilly the Witch"" focuses on the adventures of the titular character, an average young girl who one day stumbles upon an ancient, magical book and befriends its caretaker, Hector, a chubby dragon who comes to life and initiates her with the power of magic. Together, the two time travel"
"instance, ""Viz"" comic ran a parody strip called Wanker Watson. There is also a British racehorse called Winker Watson after the character. Winker Watson Winker Watson is a British comic strip, created by Eric Roberts, which ran in the British comic book magazine ""The Dandy"" for almost half a century. It debuted in 1961 and only terminated its run in 2007. It was revived in 2012. Winker first appeared in the 1961 Dandy Book (published September 1960), and then appeared in the weekly Dandy on 1 April 1961 in issue Number 1010, and was quickly established as a character of"
"Otto Wacker Otto Wacker (1898–1970) was a German art dealer who became infamous for commissioning and selling forgeries of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. Otto Wacker became an art dealer in 1925 after various false starts in other professions. He developed a reputation for reliability in the art field. The fraudulent Van Goghs were probably the work of his brother, the painter and restorer Leonhard Wacker. Otto's father, Hans, was also an artist. Wacker managed to convince prominent Van Gogh experts Jacob Baart de la Faille, Hendrik P. Bremmer, Julius Meier-Graefe and Hans Rosenhagen that the paintings he was selling"
"another satirical magazine. His cartoons featured regularly until 1992, when he began focusing on teaching, writing books, and writing and directing plays. Waechter's final work was ""Vollmond"" (""Full Moon""), a fantastic tale of a space journey. He completed it while undergoing treatment for lung cancer. He died on September 16, 2005 at the age of 67, leaving behind a wife and three sons. F. K. Waechter Friedrich Karl Waechter (3 November 1937 in Danzig – 16 September 2005 in Frankfurt) was a renowned German cartoonist, author, and playwright. Waechter was born in Danzig as a son of a teacher. His"
"it dropped down to ca. 180.000 today. In spite of the name, most stories of ""Micky Maus"" feature Donald Duck as he is the most popular Disney character in Germany. Many other titles were/are published by the same company, most notably ""Die tollsten Geschichten von Donald Duck"" (1965-today), the ""Lustige Taschenbuch"" (1967-today, mainly Italian stories from ""Topolino"" and ""I Classici di Walt Disney""; see Donald Duck pocket books, of which both ""Topolino"" and ""Lustiges Taschenbuch"" are national versions) and many others. In East Germany (1949–1990), no Disney comics were printed. The first Italian Disney comics was published already in the"
"Wicked Willie Wicked Willie is a humorous British cartoon character, personified as a talking penis, created by Gray Jolliffe (illustrator) with Peter Mayle. He first appeared in the book, ""Man's Best Friend"", published in 1984. He has subsequently appeared in ""Wicked Willie - The Movie"", and the board game, The Wicked Willie Game. Jolliffe says that the idea for Wicked Willie came to him one day, while he was in the bath. A more detailed history of Wicked Willie is found in the book, ""Wicked Willie Reloaded"". Journalist Peter Silverton describes ""..the comic books about a man and his Wicked"
"themed SMS-downloadable cartoon titled ""Der Bonker"". Illustrator Walter Moers's short film depicts Hitler in bathroom humour scenes with his dog Blondi and three Nazi uniformed rubber ducks. The work has earned criticism from some Jewish memorial groups and mainstream politicians, while garnering praise from others. Jamba! Jamba (formerly Jamba!), operating under the name Jamster in China, Brazil, and the company's English-speaking markets, is a premium-rate monthly SMS mobile phone content provider, based in Berlin, Germany. Jamba's main line of business was the creation and marketing of ringtones for mobile phones. It is perhaps best known for the ringtone characters Sweety"
"F. K. Waechter Friedrich Karl Waechter (3 November 1937 in Danzig – 16 September 2005 in Frankfurt) was a renowned German cartoonist, author, and playwright. Waechter was born in Danzig as a son of a teacher. His family fled over the Baltic Sea after World War II and settled in Sahms (Schleswig-Holstein). Waechter attended the Lauenburg Scholar School in Ratzeburg, where his graphic talents became apparent. He then studied graphic art in Hamburg. In 1962, he moved to Frankfurt and took a job drawing cartoons in an advertisement magazine ""Die Zeit"". His work attracted the attention of the editors of"
"Brazil the character is hugely popular and iconic cartoon character in the country. A handful of non-comprehensive Woody Woodpecker VHS tapes were issued by Universal in the 1980s and 1990s, usually including Andy Panda and Chilly Willy cartoons as bonuses. A few were widely released on VHS in the mid-1980s by Kid Pics Video, an American company of dubious legality, which packaged the Woody cartoons with bootlegged Disney cartoons. In the early 2000s, a series of mail-order ""Woody Woodpecker Show"" VHS tapes and DVDs were made available by mail order through Columbia House. In 2007, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released"
"Wally's mouth separate from his tusks so it appeared they were protruding from his nostrils. Like Woody, Wally appeared in cameo during the final scene of ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", and was featured in various print media and merchandise. Wally Walrus appears in the 2018 ""Woody Woodpecker"" series and also has a girlfriend named Wendy Walrus. Wally Walrus Wally Walrus is a fictional animated cartoon character who appeared in several films produced by Walter Lantz Productions in the 1940s and 1950s. Wally is an anthropomorphic walrus. In most of his appearances, he speaks with a pronounced Swedish accent, and is"
"Hurra Deutschland Hurra Deutschland (English: ""Hurrah Germany"") was a German satirical series running from 1989 to 1991, appearing regularly on TV station Das Erste. ""Hurra Deutschland"" was easily distinguished because of its use of rubber puppets modelled on politicians and celebrities, who were poked fun at in various sketches. The puppets were built out of latex by GUM Studios, who continue to make puppets even today (many of which were used in the new series). The show was chiefly political in nature, with the main character undoubtedly being a bumbling and moronic Helmut Kohl, with supporting characters Willy Brandt, Hans-Jochen"
"‘weakling’; someone who lacks moral character - letting everything ‘sieve straight through’ them. Tobias Seicherl, a typical petit bourgeois, was drunk on many occasions and often took to strolling through the streets of Vienna with his walking stick, pipe and dog named Struppi. It's somewhat ironic that the dog was the voice of reason in this strip. Little was known or discussed about Seicherl’s career or his living conditions, which made him the ideal person with which social-democratic readers could identify themselves, helping to vent their frustrations toward the bourgeois of the time. Between 1930 and 1939, the comic was"
"renamed Little Willie, the scabrous name then commonly used by the British yellow press to mock the German Imperial Crown Prince Wilhelm; Mother was for a time known as Big Willie, after his father Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany. That same year the cartoonist William Kerridge Haselden had made a popular comic anti-German propaganda movie: ""The Adventures of Big and Little Willie"". Although Little Willie was demonstrated alongside Mother in January 1916, it was by then peripheral to the development of British tanks. Though it never saw combat, Little Willie was a major step forward in military technology, being the"
"his irate victims: ""Have a care there, Big 'Ead!"" ""Wacker"" was a single page cartoon strip, subtitled ""He's All at Sea"". It concerned the crazy antics in the Royal Navy of Mis-leading Seaman Wacker, who was forever driving the Captain of HMS Impossible towards a nervous breakdown. This strip was new to ""Smash"", but was in fact a reprint from ""Buster"", where its original title had been ""Elmer"". Another humour strip new to ""Smash"" was the World War Two spoof, ""Nutt and Bolt, the Men From W.H.E.E.Z.E."" Set in 1940, this featured an English scientist named Professor Nutt, who was"
"Whacky Whacky was a British comic strip published in the British comic book magazine ""Cor!!"" and ran in the comic from its first issue on 6 June 1970 until 29 September 1973 - some 9 months before it was merged with ""Buster"". It started as a half page strip but proved popular and was given a full page several weeks later. It was created and drawn by Mike Lacey. The strip is about a fictional schoolboy called Whacky who is regularly being whacked (slang for ""beating"" or ""thrashing"") - later issues used the tag-line ""He's always getting whacked"" to emphasise"
"Wally Fawkes Walter Ernest ""Wally"" Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and a satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name ""Trog"" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81. Fawkes was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1924 and emigrated with his family to Britain in 1931. Enthused by comic books from a young age, Fawkes left school at fourteen to take up a scholarship to study at Sidcup Art School. After 18 months he left art school due to financial restraints. On the outbreak"
"they regarded themselves as the primary representatives of the master race and were themselves trying to create a super race: In post-war (the 1950s and 1960s) West Germany, comic books and strips were largely inspired by American models. Comic books for children and young people were developed, such as Rolf Kauka's ""Fix and Foxi"" and adventure comics like ""Sigurd"" and ""Nick"" by Hansrudi Wäscher. After 1960 the West German publishers comissioned foreign artists and studios. ""Bessy"" was a Dutch production for the German market, ""Wendy"" was produced in Britain, and ""Gespenster Geschichten"" was drawn by Spanish artists. Despite dubious art"
"the products included under the brand include Everlasting Gobstoppers, SweeTarts, Laffy Taffy, Nerds, Kazoozles, Shockers, Bottle Caps, Gummies, Fun Dip, Spree, Runts, Pixy Stix, MixUps and their world-famous Wonka Bars. In the United States, the Willy Wonka Candy Factory is located today at 1445 West Norwood Avenue in Itasca, Illinois. The Willy Wonka Candy Company The Willy Wonka Candy Company was an American/British brand of confectionery owned and licensed by Swiss corporation Nestlé. The Wonka brand's inception comes from materials licensed from British author Roald Dahl. His classic children's novel, ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", and its film adaptations are"
"Roger Kean in the United Kingdom. Oliver Frey Oliver ""Oli"" Frey (; born 30 June 1948 in Zurich, Switzerland) is an artist. A resident of Britain, he is known for his book and magazine illustrations – especially for British computer magazines of the 1980s – and erotic illustrations and erotic comics (under the pen name Zack) – especially in British gay male porn magazines of the 1970s and 1980s. Frey was born in Zurich, Switzerland on 30 June 1948. He grew up fluent in Italian and German. His family moved to Britain in 1956 but subsequently returned to Switzerland. During"