Rasmus Klump

The comic series Barnaby Bear was invented in 1951 by Carla and Vilhelm Hansen and carries the Danish original title Rasmus Klump. The series was initially released worldwide in many newspapers, was expelled from Germany in 1953 and in the form of colored picture books by Carlsen Verlag was founded for the publication of this series.

• 2.1 The name of Barnaby Bear at home and abroad
• 2.2 From Strudsen Rasmus Rasmus Klump to
• 2.3 From the comic strip to the Barnaby Bear - volumes
• 2.4 Development since 1978
• 2.5 years books
• 2.6 animated series

Content

Action

The stories are about the bear Barnaby Bear and his friends, the Pelikan Pelle, in its beak one finds everything except water, the penguin Pingo and the Seal Fur Seal, who tour the world with their self-built ship "Mary", while all sorts of fun adventures and other Animals meet. For secondary storylines provide the "little ones ", turtle, frog, parrot and Mausi. In addition, in some Barnaby Bear - volumes occurs perpetually hungry bunch Carlie, dig up the Barnaby Bear and his friends on the island of Robinson.

Petzis often extending over several volumes of travel regularly end with the consumption of homemade pancakes, bakes Petzis mother.

Figures

• Barnaby Bear ( Rasmus Klump ) is a small bear cub who discovers the world.
• Pingo ( Pingo ), the Penguin is the world's best buddy, as well as
• Pelle ( Pelle ), who always has something in its beak, which is needed. Sometimes he forgets that he can fly.
• Fur Seal ( Skæg ) is a veteran of seafaring, the so would like to always tell the story of the storm in the Bay of Biscay.
• Turtle ( Pildskadden ) and frog ( Frømand ) real name Jabiduttiperslikkenberg, small crew who are their jokes drive parallel to the main stories cheat at cards and experience so as a permanent secondary characters their own adventures. Later, the frog is replaced by the parrot ( Gøjen ).
• Carlie (POPs ) is an insatiable Strauss, who always has some medicine with him and acts as a ship's doctor.
• Mary Klump (Mary Klump ) is Petzis mother. It is not mentioned by name, but the ship is named after her. Their specialty pancakes.
• Teddy ( Dengse ) is Petzis little brother. He only appears briefly and then disappears from the Barnaby Bear - universe.
• Puck ( Pluk ) is presented as a cousin Seebärs. From Fur Seal, which he sees confusingly similar, he is distinguished by his tattoo ( instead of screw anchor ) and its boomerang whistle. ( The pipe is in later Barnaby Bear - airbrushed out books. )
• Ursula ( Ursula ) is the daughter of the king and is the German fans almost as Petzis fiancée.
• Mille is the niece of a balloon seller in Tivoli (Copenhagen ), but appears only in the designed by Per Sanderhage stories as a complement to the female protagonist Barnaby Bear.

Flag

Petzis ship, the Mary, initially moves with a fantasy flag, red with white dots. Since the country of origin, the Danish national flag because of a ban on national flags of other countries - and only this - is almost omnipresent, is close to influence the Barnaby Bear Flag by the likewise red and white Danish flag. In later editions, this is completely replaced by the Danish flag.

Publications

The name Barnaby Bear at home and abroad

The books have been published in different countries under different titles. → See also List of Barnaby Bear Books

• Bamse Bamse or Bjørn in Norwegian (see note)
• Rasmus Klump in Danish
• Rasmus Klumpur in Icelandic
• Rasmus Nalle in Finnish and Swedish
• Rasmus Tøppur in Faroese
• Pechi in Spanish
• Barnaby Bear in German, French, Italian and Portuguese
• Pole in Dutch

Notes: The Norwegian version of the 6 band called " Bamse på Bjørn skilpaddeøya ", the 8th is called " Bamse Bjørn som fjellklatrer ". Both are thus written in Bokmål. Compare the names skilpadder and fjellklatrer in Bokmål or Nynorsk in skjelpadder and fjellklatrar. It is reported by Norwegian books in which Barnaby Bear is, as in the Danish Rasmus Klump; publication in Nynorsk is then conceivable.

From Strudsen Rasmus Rasmus Klump to

1951 Vilhelm Hansen was asked to develop a three-frame strip series, which should replace Jørgen Clevins " Strudsen Rasmus " ( Rasmus, the ostrich ). Vilhelm only wanted to make a turtle for the protagonist, but his publisher preferred a teddy bear. Interestingly this is that soon a tortoise constant companion Petzis should be ( See section "figures" ). Klump was the name of the neighbor dog.

The comic first appeared in the form of three-frame strips in daily newspapers. The first story appeared on 17 November 1951 in the Danish newspaper Berlingske Aftenavis while a first version in German Hamburger Evening Gazette on 20th September 1952, published.

From the comic strip to the Barnaby Bear - volumes

As more and more Barnaby Bear fans asked for bound volumes, specially the German Carlsen Verlag was founded, which published in 1953, many of the stories as a colored picture books, initially in landscape mode and from the seventh volume in portrait mode. However some pictures and story elements of the original in the meantime about 3000 strips, usually with three images each have been omitted. From the fifth band, the order of the volumes is true in general no longer matches the original strips. The comics contain up to some newer revisions no bubbles, but subtitles.

From September 1977 to November 1977 published the Hamburg publishing house Gruner and year the comic magazine " Barnaby Bear and all his friends ." Overall, published four editions (20-23/1977) with old stories. The magazine was - similar to Yps - accompanied by a gimmick.

Mid-1960s, Vilhelm Hansen began to withdraw. First he walked the longer actions in the form of sequels in short episodes in order to eventually quit entirely as a draftsman. In collaboration with his wife worked as a writer continued to appear hundreds of Barnaby Bear strips, but now - as towards the end even with Hansen himself - with speech bubbles instead of subtitles.

Development since 1978

From July 1978 to May 1979, some of these strips as a 32- page comic insert in the so-called Piccolo format of the children's magazine Sesame Street, which was created from February 1973 to May 1979 at Gruner and year by the editors of Parents published by Hansen's retreat. With one exception, these stories never appeared again on German; there is no information on the artist, just a story ( Barnaby Bear and the Christmas tree appeared later in the series Pixi books) was signed by Vilhelm Hansen. All stories, however, had the copyright notice (C ) PIB / Carlsen -Verlag Reinbek.

1979 hiked the rights to the Sesame Street to the Condor Verlag ( Frankfurt am Main). The old Sesame Street editors brought from June 1979 published the magazine saffron, also included a 32-page booklet Barnaby Bear at Piccolo format with new stories to the. Saffron was terminated in February 1980. A total of 20 stories appeared.

By 2008, a total of 40 volumes of the comics published. In addition, since 1966 Barnaby Bear adventures that were published in small format in the series " Pixi books".

From new authors and new artist come eight volumes. 2006 Story elements of the original strips the Hansens were redrawn and retold again placed in eight volumes.

Since 2010, the landscape spending from the 1950s appear in the Esslinger Verlag in less abridged original version. However, missing, showing a comparison with the in the 90s appeared mainly in Belgium comic strips, still single drawings.

Strikingly, the fur seal ( and his cousin Puck ) in later editions of the pipe was airbrushed out, this is reminiscent of Lucky Luke, who now also had to give up smoking.

2013 appeared in the Carlsen publishing a 368 -page book " Barnaby Bear - the collected Adventures Volume 1: 1951-1955 " with the full picture series and the original texts in b / w and nearly 30 pages of background information about Barnaby Bear and Carla and Vilhelm Hansen. On April 22, 2014, the second volume of " Barnaby Bear - The collected World Adventures, Volume 2: 1955-1959 " appear.

Year books

In 1972, an elaborately drawn Barnaby Bear calendar with 13 of Hansen first time, even full-page colored pictures on every month of the year ( "With Barnaby Bear through the year "). To some miniatures enriched, this most beautiful Barnaby Bear band appeared ( as completely Vilhelm Hansen's hand) two years later in hardcover book form.

A year later appeared with " Barnaby Bear wants to go fishing " another hardcover, again with fully colored by Hansen full-page images.

Animated series

1996 Barnaby Bear was seen as an animated series in some editions of the children's show " The Show with the Mouse" and later with KI.KA to. The uncut versions of the stories with a length of about six minutes were released on VHS and from 2004 from 1997 on DVD.