Fix und Foxi, the clever foxes from Germany
Thomas Sr. (Captain Collector)Last updated: 11 September 2019 approx. 2 min read
Today they may no longer be as well known and as ubiquitous as they were many years ago, and yet they are still around: Rolf Kauka's two foxes. From 1953 these German comic characters thrilled children, and I was one of them, in the early 1970s. Fix und Foxi was cult for me; somehow goody-goody mouse Micky never really interested me.
Weekly comic ritual
Once a week, before school started, a pilgrimage to the nearest kiosk, grab the latest issue of Fix und Foxi and off home! A quick peek inside, then off to school. That's how it was back then. After lessons I read the issue from cover to cover, often several times, at least the stories I particularly liked.
The serialised stories in the issues were seriously addictive; after all, I wanted to know what happened next. But that was perfectly fine, because it was fun to collect the comics without any gaps.
An eye for style
Very early on, my trained eyes noticed that different artists were at work in the issues. I recognised Fix und Foxi stories drawn in the same style as the little mole Pauli. So this had to be one and the same artist. (Many years later I found out that it was Branco Karabajic from former Yugoslavia.)
There were good to very good artists, but also some I found rather mediocre. It was no different from the Buffalo Bill comics I had been reading since 1970, where, alongside the good artist Hansrudi Wäscher, a whole crowd of very average artists romped about.
Franco-Belgian reading matter
One of the most interesting aspects of Fix und Foxi was that it kept printing comics from neighbouring France and Belgium, mostly as serials. That these stories had often been mutilated for reasons of censorship and format, I didn't know back then, and in the end it didn't matter, because I read them with great pleasure.
I was a real Kauka junkie and extended my reading and collecting habit to all kinds of Fix und Foxi spin-offs, the crowning glory being the magazine Primo. The whole Kauka empire offered me immensely more than Disney's Micky Maus ever could have. Looking back today, for me Kauka was synonymous with Marvel. Disney must then have been the synonym for DC.
Did you know that Rolf Kauka was often called the German Walt Disney? A comparison he himself didn't like.
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