Joe Carioca strips

[H.W.Fluks@telecom.tno.nl]

Fernando:

> All this JOC/Panchito strips are published in their
> original form (tabloid?!) in the Netherlands?

No, they are all reformatted to comic book format. The new layout was 4
tiers on a page. For some Panchito strips (but not all), it was 5 tiers a
page.


Rob wrote:

> The Panchito pages were 
> printed as the back cover of the Dutch Weekly during the last 
> half of 1981.  I 
> seem to remember some single Panchito pages also printed on 
> an inside page in 1983?

Armando wrote that there are 53 Panchito strips. Only 26 of them were
printed on the back of a weekly (last half of 1980). 20 other ones are
scattered over the weeklies of the following years, mostly 1981-1986, but
also one in 1996 and one in 2000.

This means 7 Panchito strips are still unpublished in Holland.

BTW, these Dutch reprintings were all taken from Italian reprints of the
newspaper strips.

> Yes, there was also Dutch own production of both characters' 
> strips.
> much production 1984-1986, was from a few 22 page stories 
> and one 44 pager

That 44-pager was actually a 22-pager, re-layouted to 3-tier pages to fit in
a "mini-comic". You can still see from the drawings that the story was
originally drawn as a 22-page, 4-tier story. For instance some art on the
last page was duplicated (!).

> As for Panchito, 
> the early Dutch production (1980s) were written by Straatman, 
> later joined by van den Bosch, and drawn by Colomer

Actually, the very first Dutch Panchito story (1986) was already written by
Wilma van den Bosch.

--Harry.
(Fluks, not Flucks - though that spelling would better reflect the
pronunciation in English...)