Silent Sam (comics)

Adamson was the most famous character of the Swedish cartoonist and comic artist Oscar Jacobsson and title character of the comic of the same name. The auskommende often without words Adamson comics enjoyed great popularity worldwide so that parallel versions were created under the title Silent Sam in the United States. For Andreas C. Knigge Adamson is " undoubtedly the most successful Swedish comic strip ".

Formation, action and dissemination

In 1920, Jacobsson was commissioned to draw a comic strip for the Swedish weekly newspaper Söndags - Nisse. The result was the experienced failures of a small cigar-smoking man with three spreading hairs, which first appeared in issue 42 of Söndags - Nisse on 17 October 1920. Just one year later, the first comics were reprinted in book form. From 1922, the comics were reprinted under the title Silent Sam in American newspapers.

Jacobsson held the comic that got along with short image sequences and often without words, until his death in 1945. Thereafter, Adamson was the Danish artist Viggo Ludvigsen continued until 1964. As of 1965, the reprint strips was. Parallel to the stories of Jacobsson and Ludvigsen was also published under the title Silent Sam in the United States in 1935 to 1940 by Henry Thol and in the years 1941-1953 by Jeff Hayes Adamson adventure.

Between 1924 and 1928 Dr. Selle- Eysler appeared at the Berlin Verlag AG a total of six volumes with Adamson stories. More Adamson stories on German appeared among others in 1954 when Random House, 1976 when Bertelsmann Verlag and 1982 Knaur.

In Italy, the comics were published from the year 1930 under the name Omobono in the children's newspaper Corriere dei piccoli. Further publications including in China and Japan.