Pif Gadget
Pif Gadget was a French comic magazine for children, which appeared from 1969 to 1993 and from 2004 until 2009. His greatest number of readers reached there in the early 1970s.
History
The magazine was conceived as a periodical of the Communist Party of France and was first published illegally under the title Le Jeune Patriots under the Nazi occupation of France from January 1942, it appeared legally 1944-1945. In 1945 it was renamed Vaillant, Le Jeune Patriots. The title was in 1946 for easy readability Vaillant with the addition of " le journal le plus captivant " shortened ( the most fascinating magazine). For the April edition of 1965 the title was changed to Vaillant, le journal de Pif, in honor of the prominently featured Pif, the comic figure of a dog, which had been designed by José Cabrero Arnal. Until 1969, Vaillant had like all his competitors printed serial stories, but the magazine in this incarnation ended with issue number 1238 on 23 February 1969.
Pif Gadget began again with the issue number 1, which was released on February 24, 1969, but retained the old number with respect to Vaillant. The magazine was sold at the beginning for a few months as Pif et son gadget surprise. The term gadget was used in the sense of a "free gift " to each issue, among which were the very popular LBs ( Pifises ) who could use them as tiny animals the reader - they are in the English language known as sea monkeys.
Pif gadget record circulation amounted to one million copies, which was first reached on 6 April 1970 and again in September 1971. This is a still existing record for a European comic magazine Represents the magazine could reach emerging markets and was one of the chosen few western magazines that were sold behind the Iron Curtain because they had emerged from a link -standing publication. During the period of the decline of the Soviet Union, the number of readers waned, so that the contents of the magazine has been thinned and the comic stories were stretched over several issues. The last big feature published on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution in 1989. The original version of the magazine was printed last in 1993.
The magazine brought some international spin-offs such as Yps in Germany and Jippo forth in Scandinavia.
Restart
The magazine was revived in 2004 under the aegis of Pif Editions with a circulation of around 100,000 units. Burdened with about 4 million euros of debt, the six -person company went in March 2007 into administration ( redressement judiciaire ). The company then went on January 15, 2009 in liquidation ( liquidation judiciaire ).
The Comics
Pif Gadget won the reader's interest, mainly because only complete stories and not a continuation of the stories were published. The published comic strips were:
- Rahan by Roger Lecureux (text) and André Chéret (drawings )
- Docteur Justice by Jean Ollivier (text) and Raffaele Carlo Marcello (drawings )
- Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt
- Gai - Luron by Marcel Gotlib
- Concombre masqué Nikita Mandryka
- Les Pionniers de l' Espérance by Roger Lecureux (text) and Raymond Poïvet (drawings )
- Le Grêle 7/13 by Roger Lecureux ( text ), Lucien Nortier (drawings ) and Christian Gaty (drawings )
- Nasdine Hodja by Roger Lecureux (text) and Angelo Di Marco ( drawings)
- Arthur, the ghost of Jean Cézard
- Les Rigolus et les Tristus by Jean Cézard
- Corinne et Jeannot Jean Tabary
- Black Wolf by Jean Ollivier (text) and Kline (drawings )