Father and Son is one of the most beloved comic strips ever drawn—an uproarious, timeless ode to the pleasures, pitfalls, and endless absurdity of family life. Father and Son is a slyly heartwarming, dizzyingly inventive classic in the tradition of Calvin and Hobbes and The Simpsons. Created in 1934 by the German political cartoonist Erich Ohser (using the pseudonym E.O. Plauen after being blacklisted for his opposition to the Nazi regime), the gruff, loving, mustachioed father and his sweet but troublemaking son embark on adventures both everyday and extraordinary: family photoshoots and summer vacations, shipwrecks and battles with gangsters, a Christmas feast with forest animals and a trip to the zoo. Drawn almost entirely without dialogue, the strips overflow with slapstick, fantasy, and anarchic visual puns. Father and Son remains an uproarious, timeless ode to the pleasures, pitfalls, and endless absurdity of family life. This NYRC edition is an extra-wide hardcover with raised cover image, and features new English hand-lettering.

Father and Son

Comics & Graphic Novels

Plauen, E. O.

Comic Strips

New York Review Comics

Cartoons from the height of a promising career tragically cut short
 E. O. Plauen created a rascally family strip in Father and Son. A gentle pantomime strip published in the German weekly Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung in pre–World War II Germany, Vater und Sohn was an immediate success and ran for three short but popular years, from 1934 to 1937. Plauen used a simple, clear cartooning style to tell his funny vignettes about a father who is just as much of a troublemaker as his little boy―a setup unique compared with the predictable scolding-father-versusunruly-scamp scenario seen in most humor strips of the time.Working against the stereotypical portrayal of a precocious kid and a doofus father, he expertly gave both titular characters their fair share of brilliance and clumsiness. 
Plauen's own story ended tragically in 1944 when he took his life the day before he was scheduled to appear in the People's Court for expressing anti-Nazi views. In memory of him and his talent as a cartoonist, this Drawn &amp; Quarterly edition of Father and Son presents a selection of his strips, placing Plauen's work alongside archival projects such as Frank King's Walt &amp; Skeezix and Tove Jansson's Moomin, which bring these admirable repertoires to a new generation of readers.

Graphic Novels

Drawn and Quarterly

"Vater und Sohn" sind die bekanntesten Figuren des deutschen Zeichners Erich Ohser alias e.o.plauen (1903-1944). Die textlosen Geschichten handeln von den Erlebnissen eines rundlichen, kahlköpfigen Vaters und seines struwelpetrigen Sohnes, die sich mit diversen Alltagssituationen herumschlagen.

Vater und Sohn: Sämtliche Bildgeschichten (German Edition)

Ohser, Erich

Books on Demand

Vater und Sohn: 170 Bildergeschichten (German Edition)

Verlag Projekt Gutenberg-De

Vater und Sohn: Sämtliche Bildgeschichten

Publishers

Nikol Verlagsges.mbH

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