Mosaik
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Mosaik is a German comic book. First published in December, 1955, it is the longest running German (and European) monthly comic book and the only one originating in East Germany that still exists. In his English-language edition was published under the title Mosaic appeared. The Mosaik also appeared in other countries and other languages.
Mosaik was created by illustrator and caricaturist Hannes Hegen. From 1955 to 1975, the protagonists of Mosaik were Dig, Dag and Digedag, known together as the Digedags. They were replaced in 1976 by Abrax, Brabax and Califax, known together as the Abrafaxe, who are still the main characters of the book today.
More than 200 million issues have been sold from 1955 until today.[citation needed] In its best times, prior to German reunification, Mosaik had a print run of almost a million books per month.[citation needed] After reunification, the print run has varied from more than 100,000 in the early 1990s to about 80,000 in 2007. [1]
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[edit] Digedags years
The East German publisher Verlag Neues Leben had wanted to counter Western comics and magazines with a magazine of their own when Hannes Hegen approached them with his ideas about Mosaik and the Digedags. Reaching an agreement with Neues Leben, Hegen created the first issue of Mosaik for publishing in December 1955. Mosaik was published quarterly until July 1957 when it switched to a monthly schedule that has continued uninterrupted to this day. To support the schedule, the publisher hired additional artists, colorists and writers to support Hegen - the team became known as the Mosaik-Kollektiv. Only Hegen was credited on the cover, however.
[edit] Abrafaxe years
In 1975, Hegen left the publisher over a disagreement and took the rights to the Digedags characters with him. The Mosaik-Kollektiv, not wanting to end publication of Mosaik, cooperated to create new characters to replace the Digedags. The final versions of the Abrafaxe were created by writer Lothar Dräger and artist Lona Rietschel. During the half year period of creating the new characters and stories, reprints of old Digedags stories were run in Mosaik, until the new characters premiered in January 1976.
[edit] Expenditure in the English language
The English editions of the Mosaik were mostly under the name Mosaic. From the Mosaik of Hannes Hegen, there is also English-language books. These are the well-known issue 105 of the mosaic, in 1965 under the title "The Pirates Castle" (in German Mosaik von Hannes Hegen 105 - Die Seeräuberburg) in a small circulation has been established. According to a former publishing staff, this is a promotional booklet for the US- American market. For a planned handover of the larger mosaic in the United States were already contracts with the East Berlin publishing house. Because of the embargo policy of the United States in the cold war against eastern European states , as well as the GDR, the treaty could not be ratified. For the international and English-speaking market were from the comic magazine of the Mosaik von Hannes Hegen, ten volumes of America series printed in the English language.
Title of the anthologies - Mosaic Comic Books
- The Digedags in America
- The Digedags on the Mississippi
- The Digedags and the Indians
- The Digedags in the Rocky Mountains
- The Digedags in New Orleans
- The Digedags on the Missouri
- The Digedags and the Golden Treasure
- The Digedags in Panama
- The Digedags and the Pirate Island
- The Digedags in New York
The mid-1980s published 42 books in the English language for India. The booklets were produced in the GDR. There is also a promotional flyer for these issues. For the Indian mosaic booklets, in English under the title Mosaic appeared there are promotional flyer. This promotional flyers in English informed that the mosaic of Abrafaxe also in English and Arabic languages appear and simultaneously advertises for the acquisition, the acquisition of the issue in India, including the order form.
| English number | German number | English Title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9/84 | PURSUIT OF ROBBERS | Den Räubern auf den Fersen |
| 2 | 10/84 | AS PRISONERS OF AMAZONIANS | Als Gefangene der Amazonen |
| 3 | 11/84 | ALEXANDRA AND ROXANE | Roxane und Alexander |
| 4 | 12/84 | THE TEMPLE OF VISHNU | Der Tempel des Wischnu |
| 5 | 1/85 | DEVTA'S DOOT | Der Götterbote |
| 6 | 2/85 | DEPORTED | Abgeschoben |
| 7 | 3/85 | MARRIAGE PROPOSAL | Die Brautwerbung |
| 8 | 4/85 | IN THE DIAMOND MINE | In der Diamantenmine |
| 9 | 5/85 | ESCAPED INTO THE DESERT | Ausbruch in die Wüste |
| 10 | 6/85 | THE SHIP OF NEARCHOS | Das Schiff des Nearchos |
| 11 | 7/85 | ON THE SALT LAKE | Auf dem Salzsee |
| 12 | 8/85 | TRICK AND COUNTER TRICK | List und Gegenlist |
| 13 | 9/85 | IN GREAT DANGER | In großer Gefahr |
| 14 | 10/85 | MONASTERY IN THE MOUNTAINS | Das Kloster in den Bergen |
| 15 | 11/85 | THE FULFILMENT OF PROPHESY | Die erfüllte Weissagung |
| 16 | 12/85 | KING ALEXANDRA | König Alexander |
| 17 | 1/86 | MYSTERIOUS HERMIT | Der rätselhafte Einsiedler |
| 18 | 2/86 | IN THE EMPIRE OF YETI | Im Reich des Yeti |
| 19 | 3/86 | ABDUCTED AND WANTED | Entführt und gesucht |
| 20 | 4/86 | THE MYSTERY OF BRAHMAN | Das Geheimnis des Brahmanen |
| 21 | 5/86 | ON THE GANGES | Auf dem Ganges |
| 22 | 6/86 | A JUGGLING TRICK | Ein Gauklertrick |
| 23 | 7/86 | TIGER HUNT IN JUNGLE | Tigerjagd im Dschungel |
| 24 | 8/86 | IN A PREDICAMENT | In schwieriger Lage |
| 25 | 9/86 | CHAMATKARAK | Der Wundertäter |
| 26 | 10/86 | KINGS OF THE POOR | Der König der Armen |
| 27 | 11/86 | IN THE BAY OF BENGAL | Am Bengalischen Meer |
| 28 | 12/86 | LAST MIRACLE | Das letzte Wunder |
| 29 | 1/87 | A NEW PUZZLE | Ein neues Rätsel |
| 30 | 2/87 | THE DISAPPEARED TREASURE | Der verschwundene Staatsschatz |
| 31 | 3/87 | UNEXPECTED RESCUE | Unerwartete Rettung |
| 32 | 4/87 | NEW FROM ROXANIA | Neues aus Roxanien |
| 33 | 5/87 | CHEATS AMONG THEMSELVES | Gauner unter sich |
| 34 | 6/87 | GOLDEN PILLAR | Die goldene Säule |
| 35 | 7/87 | BURRIED HOPES | Verschüttete Hoffnungen |
| 36 | 8/87 | MISSING IN JUNGLE | Im Dschungel verschollen |
| 37 | 9/87 | MASTER OF ANIMAL | Der Herr der Tiere |
| 38 | 10/87 | THE LAST CHANCE | Die letzte Chance |
| 39 | 11/87 | THE SIEGE | Die Belagerung |
| 40 | 12/87 | A HAPPY END | Ein glückliches Ende |
| 41 | 1/88 | ORANG LAUT | Die Orang Laut |
| 42 | 2/88 | A CRAZY INVENTION | Eine tolle Erfindung |
[edit] Other well-known foreign language publications
The international foreign released after spending the previous published Mosaik magazines and Mosaik albums in many different countries, mostly always in the respective national languages.
- MOZAIK comic magazine (1971)
Belgium and Netherlands MOSAIKs in Dutch language
- MOSAIC book - Dig en Dag op Stap (1972-1978?)
- MOSAIC books anthologies - Dig en Dag op Stap (1978)
- MOSAIC-Books
- Een Stripboek - DIKKERDAKS IN AMERICA
- Een Stripboek - DIKKERDAKS AAN MISSISSIPPI
- Mosaik books (2000-...)
- Mosaik Albums
- Mosaik Onepager
- MOZAIK books
- 1 -... (2004 -... / bimonthly)
- Newspaper Reprints Comic magazine of the Czechoslovak Communist Youth Organization "Pionýr" with Rytíř Runkl - Ritter Runkel (1968)
- Albums (2003-...)
- Congo - Abrafaxové v Africe
- Small detectives
- Onepager
- Mateřídouška (Onepager - from # 9 / 2005)
- MOSAIIKKI Mosaik comic magazine (1962-1967)
- MOSAIC-Books
- MOSAIIKKI (1980 - 7 Books)
- Hollywood Pursuit 2 (1998)
- Mosaic books and Mosaik comic magazine (2001-...)
- MOZAIK comic magazine (1972-1976 Digedags), Abrafaxe (1976-1991 and 2001-...)
- MOSAIC-Books
- Digedagék (1987)
- Mozaik books of Abrafaxe and Digedags (2006-...), Reprints of previously published books mosaic in Anthologies
- Mosaic - 1-42 in English (1986)
- Abrafaxe issues
- Mosaik Abrafaxe - 1-6 (2001-2002)
- Albums - Among black flag (2002) - The Abrafaxe - Harta karun
- MOSAIC books - 1 -... (2003 -...)
- Mosaik- released in Arabic (1984)
- MOZAIC comic magazine 1-3 (2005-2006)
- Mosaika - comic magazine No. 1-14 (1993-1994) in Russian
- "New Life" (Journal of the German-speaking population of Russia) - "The journey of Abrafaxe after Goslar" (in German)
- Abrafaxe issues
- BACAXIZLAR 1 -... (2001/ # 1-8,)
- MOZAIK - spending in Serbo-Croatian (1971)
- Mosaik comic magazine - 1 - 8 (2005-...)
[edit] References
- ^ PZ-Online media data. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
[edit] External links
- Official Abrafaxe Homepage
- Official Digedags Homepage (in German)
- Mosaik Online Fanzine (in German)
- Mosapedia, a Mosaik Wiki (in German)
- Mosaic- an article in German on Mosapedia in German
