Jommeke
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| Author(s) | Jef Nys (later continued by Gerd Van Loock (drawings and writing), Hugo de Sterk, Philippe Delzene (drawings) and Jan Ruysbergh (writing) |
| Launch date | 30 October 1955 |
| Genre(s) | Humor comics, Adventure comics, Children's comics |
Jommeke is a Flemish comic strip series in publication since 1955. It was created by Jef Nys and can be defined as a humoristic children's adventure series. Jommeke, an 11-year-old boy, is the series' main protagonist. It was originally published in Kerk en Leven, before moving to Het Volk, where it ran until the newspaper went bankrupt in 2010. Since then it is published in Het Nieuwsblad, De Gentenaar and De Standaard.
"Jommeke" is very popular in Flanders and, together with Suske en Wiske the best-selling comic strip in the region. However, its success has always purely remained a Flemish phenomenon, seeing that attempts at foreign translations all failed.
The first appearance of Jommeke was on 30 October 1955, as a gag-a-day strip in the Belgian magazine Kerk en Leven. After moving to another newspaper, Het Volk, in 1958, "Jommeke" became a full length adventure comic strip, while Nys also continued Jommeke gag pages in 't Kapoentje. Jommeke has sold 51 million albums in Belgium alone, which means an average of about 4.5 albums per person. This makes Jommeke the best-selling comic book series in Belgium behind Suske en Wiske. There's also a newspaper for children called "Jommekeskrant", which is delivered weekly together with popular Belgian newspaper "Het Nieuwsblad".
Up till January 2012 the following Jommekes albums exist: (actual available German titles of German publisher stainlessArt in brackets)
There are also some special albums, with a few games, jokes and some of the above stories added:
Apart from some editions for the Netherlands, Jommeke has been unsuccessfully translated into French, English, Finnish and Swedish.
A German edition was published from 1971 until around 1980 and lasted 32 volumes (the original comics were printed out of order and volumes 27-28 do not exist!) by Gemini Verlag (1-18) and Europress (19-26, 29-34). The series title was (Die tollen Abenteuer von) Peter + Alexander, obviously a play of words on Austrian actor and singer Peter Alexander.
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