On facebook. Michel it represents the genesis of the comic strip. But oh dear oh dear the sticky ending i feel great. Is just funny. Maxim that would stay with you for life. And to me its about being creative rebellious standing up to the n. L. World. Max of ball hits is a childrens classic generations of grown up with this illustrated story penned by vilhelm bush in the Nineteenth Century and have agree with International Appeal some headed a story of seven boyish pranks its been translated into over two hundred languages its french translators include false wakaba na cofounder of the satirical magazine shelley and dog children the only ones who delight in the antics of the naughty little boys. They can then take on how often read or hear of boys we almost end in fear of for example take the stories of to use named max and more its who instead of early turning their young minds a useful learning often lived with hard features at their lessons and that teaches look now at the empty head is for mischief always ready is this is that ive known it by heart since i was five. Hands were hers in number three and a cock of majesty max and its took of you fell to thinking what to do one two three as soon as said they have sliced a loaf of bread and then next grow longer and longer and their groans grow stronger and stronger each lays quickly one egg more then they cross to tother shore. Vidhan saw is a quaint Little Village in the lowlands of northern germany its the birthplace of vilhelm bush humorist poet illustrator and painter. Arguably germanys best known comic artist off koenig is an ardent vilhelm bush fan he first read maxim moments as a child and was instantly taken by the terrible duo. Who exactly was the man who created them and why is his book so successful. During his lifetime bush had a reputation for being a curmudgeon the learner he was deeply private but he was also a Brilliant Writer and illustrator who invented timeless characters with a skill that continues to astonish. You move on from where they learnt to joe not return bush is basically the grandfather of all comic artists and as a kid i found a villain bush book on my parents shelf i couldnt even. Read but i could understand the pictures and they blew my mind its not true to me bush was never just harmless fun human music and i was very young when i realized that comics were completely Rocknroll Rocknroll along. Bush lived for most of his life in rural possum edges his all stay a protestant environment was vital to his creativity. Initially writing books and drawing probably stops you needing a therapist and you control the world the way you wanted to be. You can mold everything in your image all the gold of your own creations. Thats applies whether youre writing novels or drawing comics and he was. Born in one thousand nine hundred two vilhelm bush came from Humble Beginnings his father was an ambitious industrious shopkeeper his mother quiet and hard working feedings went talked about affection renny shown. Bush revealed little of his upbringing but once mentioned experimenting with gunpowder stolen from his fathers cellar and the keys to the church. Staying one people believed in a strict upbringing at that time they didnt hug their children they raised them and provided for them but they never hugged them just. Airing in the Nineteenth Century was nothing like it is today there was Corporal Punishment children were drilled they were expected to behave like many adults to get on with it and if they didnt theyd be whacked with a spoon or on their backsides as we can see in the hymn bourse drawing. Them in the educational system in place at the time was extremely or thorough tarion prussia wanted its children to be obedient passed the way they were taught amounted to military drills was a military action than. A baby and was everything at home and at school where a village teacher would often be in charge of up to one hundred children becoming an adult was all that mattered. To me a new category was invented a very discriminatory category namely childhood it was terrible the children were raised with the idea that becoming an adult was all that mattered in bush v thats who they were as children meant nothing put into the in moment beastliness job this is about i think it was a time when a lot was repressed and kept hidden there was a lot you couldnt say or do anything that was the spirit of the Nineteenth Century society was very tight and constrained. I can. Eventually after. His school days left their mark on vilhelm bush. Gas meter Police OfficerCorporal Punishment is a recurring theme in his one and kinda get children a beat and dont even cupid is beaten on the backside with birches or whatever else invites him Corporal Punishment is a big deal with force. Bush reflected the spirit of the age in his own idiosyncratic way his stories recount disastrous attempts to teach people lessons he infused his bizarre tales with everything he feared beatings human misery and made the most of the silly funny. The centrifuge to shoot and of and advice it would have been impossible to publicly refer to so many words to the social issues he depicted had to come. And mitigate did so with the artistic means that is in fact the definitive tool for tackling difficult topics in an entertaining way even so he. Moment that all this humor. In the turkish maxim or lets widow to bits is called fatma doodle when there were the widow tibbets whom the cunt below exhibits had recovered on the morrow from the dreadful shock of sorrow she has soon as grief would letter began to think to a better just to take the dead the dear ones who in life were walking here once and in a still noon day hour them well roasted to devour. At that moment down the cellar dreaming not want soon be felled her widowed tibbets went for sauerkraut which she would off to devour with exceeding great desire warmed a little at the fire up there on the roof meanwhile theyre doing things in the style already with forethought a long fishing line is brought should nobody but a second bird should nobody of up up comes the third. I have a seven year old daughter when i dug up my old maxim all its books and leaf through them i realize that from my perspective as an adult and as a mother maxim movements are really subversive and i had to wonder if thats good for kids and for some kids. Of course its never too brutal its just the right amount of brutal heat have our children ask very serious questions about death and danger of fire and i think lying to them is just an forgivable as well its like the monster under the bed once if you keep saying theres nothing there when kids can hear it knocking it just gets bigger and bigger investments to head it was. Just a few years before marx and boy its appeared frankfurt doctorand psychiatry hindmarsh hofmann published his Childrens Book over paper it comprises ten stories about children who were punished for misbehaving hofmann set out to educate children bush did not. And thats somewhat maximo its was a completely new type of Childrens Book if its a Childrens Book at all its not a child rearing manual its not going to make children behave better on the country they might want to copy all the mischief in it they might actually admire max and more lets give london maxim well its not the same which is the way he went about it was very courageous hes not out to make you sympathize with parents you know all the pranks hes on the side of the children he gives them a voice of his i think you know and keep thinking and on it and hes a lobbyist for children much as he to look at his deck into. Even in todays digital age the stubborn little lads can hold their own against playstation. Ns and mickey mouse. Eyes. Of god theyre naughty. Wed never do that sort of thing would you. So the bridge in it collapses thats not so bad happens to be all the toys. I read lots of books and theres always a happy end but not in this one. Its a bit violent he pushed her him he doesnt like little kids theyre only playing tricks it wasnt them im looking for those. Who. Dont teach children. But what if they did it what the bit about death is a bit much but there has to be some kind of ending. Vilhelm bush was sent away from his family at the tender age of nine he was the eldest and after his mother gave birth to her fifth child there was no more room in his parents house he went to live with his uncle gay or kleiner a pastor and a natural scientist an ideal teacher for the young vilhelm. Neighborhood samir getting in is one hundred sixty five kilometers from didnt stop the journey then took three days. I think then being sent away when he was only a child was traumatic for him the way children feel about their mothers is one of the only things he doesnt know and its taught in technology it does and mothers are conspicuously absent from his work and only his characters dont have parents his work is full of old friends of one vice and then not the high it was three years before he went back to aber goodson he was very happy when he saw his mother coming towards him he ran up to her all excited but she didnt look at him she didnt recognise him. Bush would later write that homesickness is like a strange kind of sore throat again and again he would draw his home his family but theres only one surviving picture of his mother a revue of her holding a baby. Bush withdrew from the world he destroyed all his letters and sketches and determined to give nothing of himself away. The writings of philosophers cant. Confirmed him in his bleak view of the world. Then post them bush was a pessimist he was of the belief that when good for nothing and that were born the right into the cool and said theres no point in childrearing he didnt think we could change he thought we could only stay the way we young so he retreated to a position as an observer he stood back and watched as i am since its over. Its. Not so much its maximal its no good ole them took us so when no one saw them. Thats. The. Riddle diddles soda gap across the middle. Mark even rhymes tell a tale or mock me crushed beneath his weight it breaks. You make the sound of the so ill do that its of itself so. Ill give you the beat oh man dont fill our european beat box champions they retell the max and more good stories in the form of vocal percussion the bush gave them a lot to work with. One two and then back to the b. Then a bit more mark ill start a sugar box and then you coming from a simple be ok lets do it three four. So. Lets. Look look look look. Ok ok ok ok ok. Many schieffer if youre going to voice the story of max and moritz it would be very percussive if he used a lot of very on amounts of poetic sounds crash beneath his weight it breaks his very emphatic almost like an invented language full of clothes of consonants is perfect for voicing really. Mags and snot could all of them took a saw when no one saw them. Riddle diddle soda gap across the middle when this feat was finished well suddenly was heard a yell hello there come out you black. Mark on the bridge one lead he makes crash but me thinks wait it breaks once more rings the crime out mark in head foremost club score buck. Make make make this is not make make this is basically whats called Animal Rights here in latin a listing of words the repetition is what makes it so fantastic fantastic isnt that i clung to. The music callously of the rhyme was always more important a vilhelm bush than grammatical accuracy. Hes constantly switching from the present to the past he makes up in. Parities that dont actually exist he makes up third person pronouns that dont exist and if he did he rides roughshod over grammar but what he does goes beyond artistic freedom he maintains a melody of language as what does that mean. Im leaving ted ted to ted to tat a tat you have to stick to it its not so nice if you dont see something this was the bad boys first trick but the second fallacy quick. For many people max and more words triggers a memory of their grandparents voices the mind often associates voices with certain moods which goes some way to explaining the extraordinary success of maxim or its bush drew the pictures before he wrote the text spending hours mulling the words and how they sounded. Once he arrived at his uncles house in aber goodson though made friends with a boys own age. Anish bachmann was the local millers son he spent some of the happiest days of his childhood with him. The things they got up to serve as the inspiration for his masterpiece bush wrote himself into the story as cautious little moritz with his lock of hair always standing on end. Theirs was a lifelong friendship every year bush would visit immigrants and stay at night in the noisy dusty mill. The old watermelon immigrants and is still in operation today at the local museum. Sunshine and it was an exciting playground there was so much going on it had Technology Water everything little boys not. So that was their base where theyd plan their pranks and village vilhelm bush was almost definitely the more cautious. Man was a very outgoing young man he was fearless he was the son of the miller and exactly the sort of friend and bush needed the type who take him to all the exciting places. His uncle the protestant pastor gail klein or encourage the young vilhelm bush to draw and write he was a keen observer of nature and even better he didnt beat his nephew. The bridge the mill the church all the places that feature in marx and more its really existed in evidence and. There. But bush was only ever really a rascal in his imagination. Prangs me and crimes of course i never played any pranks i read marx and. I was a rebellious and adventurous little girl but i didnt mind rules i stuck to the rules. Devised to go with my yeah and you can find. I dont really play pranks i never play tricks on people. I have to admit that when i was at school i did an excellent imitation of marks on. Me because i think they play tricks on people because they cant think of anything else to do technology is better than playing pranks. My mind because i have a confession to make my father was a policeman and he had a bike so of course i just had to let the cat out of the times as well not through this today we have electronic stuff in the old days they didnt even have color t. V. But that was ages ago. I dont even go on thats whats more. Shes done lampel closes the church door so i and. This must be master limper thing is with the pipes burst almost shattered into dust master lampel and his exploding pipe. This is the ultimate comic strip no contest that if you are its like those Roy Lichtenstein pictures with the speech bubbles saying what are boiling without pain. All right this is a picture i always thought was awful the man only has one ear and looks a bit like nicky lauder. The poor man explodes and then hes just left sitting there its weird its a cautionary tale. For you know thats how. I thought it was creepy seriously hes a zombie because you cant sleep after youve seen a picture like that so be it because see. Closes the church door glad to see his home once more full of gratitude he there lights his pipe and takes his chair. He says no joy is found like contentment on earth round his was born the pipes burst almost shouted into dust. Right. It represents the genesis of the comic strip down just about every Single Person who has been interested in comics since eight hundred sixty five has studied this stuff and as you know every artist who uses pen and ink has their own style with bush its just so distinctive its so imaginative and very energetic that its not a clean style and thats what i like about it so much im an illustrator myself and its hard to explain to someone who is and how this makes you feel its just so so he says. Bushs path to becoming an artist was a long and winding one at the age of fifteen he began studying Mechanical Engineering in hanover despite having no interest whatsoever in mathematics he gave it up at eighteen shortly before he would have graduated he felt his vocation was to be an artist when a friend of his in rolled the arctic had to be indecl doff he followed suit but he only lasted ten months it was too dry and academic there for his taste. He then tried his luck at all schooling and to up there he discovered the dutch masters. But after a few months he contract to typhoid his landlord and lady looked after him and probably saved his life. As soon as his health returned they sent him home intervenes of giving him three oranges and a red jacket for the journey he felt like a faded. Love and i mean all violence i think he felt like a loser he hadnt ever finished anything he didnt have any kind of qualification practical or on to stick he was back home with just a few sketches and paintings to show for him self and all he could tell his father was that he was planning a new painting he still had to rely on his parents financial support. The vilhelm bush museum in hannover houses many of his writings paintings and drawings bush described his discovery of the divine ease of dutch painting as life changing but his admiration for the old masters did nothing for his selfconfidence. He said. He was so moved in so impressed by this out and so sure that he could never be that good. Lady he said that he completely dont hate him. Bush spent more or less his whole life painting it was his calling but he was ready satisfied with what he produced he tended to favor a small format because it was less likely to attract attention he destroyed much of what he did after his death thousands of paintings and even more drawings were discovered carelessly stacked together. Just. To. See. What kind of a bird im a bug was they knew i daresay with his peaked nightcap on uncle fritz to bed has gone its a cats come the title single file from then i quarters and the captain body goes straight and uncle francis knows he cries when i we hear seizing that grim good idea. Ill go wild with fried to up spring and the bed clothes from him fling with out she ceases to more screaming. Graces from his shin and nape crawling flying to and fro around the buzzing rascals go. Through. In eight hundred ninety seven when vilhelm bush was still alive the pioneering french illusionist and filmmaker draw is merely a made one of the worlds first short films the comedy. Was inspired by max and. Bush called his work writing with pictures many of his tales are like early storyboards readers can easily follow the sequences bush understood that they like action. The fuss is fast money and you see the same sort of dynamic and visual structure you get in the display movies of the late twentys and early thirtys no question that he. Was doing it sixty seventy years earlier than. Age twenty two vilhelm bush decided to give painting another shot this time he went to munich persuading his father to finance him one last time. He enrolled at the because to me of fine arts but his enthusiasm didnt last the money mental historical painting taught that left him cold bush preferred to busy him self with the newly founded Artists Union you mention. If its Common Knowledge that he was fun loving. He threw himself into the art scene and drank himself silly. Bush embrace the bohemian lifestyle in munich he went on trips to the countryside and spent his nights carousing with friends he drank Copious Amounts of beer and became a heavy smoker which later resulted in symptoms of nicotine poisoning bush caricature had both his friends and his foes in his bob but brilliant pictures his kenai was soon garnering attention. Another regular on the media cart scene was casper blown hed studied art and was a painter and a successful publisher it wasnt long before he noticed the talented vilhelm bush. Passed up on test bob brown was a key figure in munich hed set up two publications that were very high profile on the feet into blatter and they mention a bit of borgen a sort of satirical magazine so he was always on the lookout for illustrators he realized that the young vilhelm bush was exactly the right person for the job the first job bush had was to illustrate the jokes and stories submitted by the readers. Loosely and. For the first time in his life bush was earning money with work he actually enjoyed but he was a perfectionist and none too keen on the texts he was illustrating he pitched a few stories of his own writing the texts and illustrating them himself when they were published the mission to build a borgen flew off the shelves. Theyd went to bush like to return to vidhan zone then he would work among the illustrated stories such as ice pater he persuaded dresden base publisher. To issue the stories as a Childrens Book bought to build a possum was a disaster the world obviously wasnt ready for such macabre tiles next he began work on a story about two young scotty wangs and decided to call the max and both its he did the illustrations first only moving on to the words afterwards. Thats the hatch there come the boys my gemini black is ravens down the chimney. I like the six bass. Puffs into a chest they drop from the flower to the top they crawl from under cover just as white as chalk i over their eyes they were all black then a white black and white indian theres the oven all red hot shove them in is quick as thought. Oh if out with them from the heat they are brown and. Who would steal of then this must do wriggled down the chimney flue much there come the boys my jimmy black as raven was down the chimney. Into a chest they drop full of flour up to the top here is the oven all red hot shove them in as quick as thought now you think theyve paid the debt no my friend theyre living yet. Max and more its was published in autumn eight hundred sixty five when bush was thirty two just in time for christmas initially sales was sluggish. So im not to be so fought teachers were up in arms they read it and were pulled toward. Phenomena it caused an incredible commotion bush unleashed a major scandal. The book was deemed a corrupting influence on young minds in styria austria it wasnt allowed to be so to anyone under eighteen until nine hundred twenty nine in germany it took three years for the First Edition to sell out but with every further print run it became increasingly successful the book was in its fifty fifth edition by the time vilhelm bush died in one thousand eight his publisher casper brown was a millionaire vilhelm bush had sold all the rights for a flat rate free. And split it in miami as well and best and it turned into a best seller and todays jargon its a steady seller you can find it in every bookstore in a range of different editions full color versions black and white versions it was and remains a best seller an instant could be missed. Bushs next publisher was auto bus a mine a friend from his munich days every. Yeah bush would produce new illustrated stories for him sent antonius of padua caused another scandal but went on to be just as successful as helen who couldnt help it and fix the monkey but bush didnt enjoy all this public enthusiasm for his work nor his growing fame. Slime pilots fantasying his books in shop windows was a great source of embarrassment to him hed cross the street he once described a lovely scene when he was in a train and his neighbors were discussing how funny his rhymes were he found it excruciating. An exhibition at the root of a gallery in oberhausen documents one hundred fifty years of comic book history from max and more whats the health koenigs work. For instance fish dishes that feel we wanted to trace the lever the turn of the century to america when what we would now call the modern comic first appeared when down it took just a few months for it to become a standard feature in newspapers that have yet to form inside only against the backdrop of the american newspaper walls of the late Nineteenth Century publishing magnates joseph puget sound and william hest sought to attract new readers with comic strips among the best known other cats in the emma kids which appeared in one of her spaces german immigrants knew it was inspired by max and more its not and it was created by rudolf dix an artist from haida on the north sea coast of chile is recalled stein and i mean like his publisher William Hearst commissioned him to create Something Like max and moritz it was a very specific instruction. No one talked to bush about it he was still alive when the cats and yeah my kids first appeared it featured a couple of young tearaway is getting up to mischief much of it was directly influenced by max and moritz although unlike the bush story the comic strip featured speech bubbles the comic strip was well on its way to becoming what it is today. Thats the unlock its the cuts and you know my kids is hugely successful its still in syndication making the longest running comic strip of all time comic and the heart of. American comics helped bring many of vilhelm bushs ideas back to europe to france belgium and eventually also to germany. Despite the sudden onslaught of competition maxim well its remained popular. But. Translated to some three hundred languages and dialects the book ensures that vilhelm bush remains the most widely read german writer of all time. And the thing is its about as much of a bestseller as the bible and its probably been translated into as many languages thats about as successful as it gets. Its. Estefan remember scampering along behind your mother and a heavy door shutting on you and you try to prise it open with your fingers but you hear a bum cracking and youre suddenly aware of your body not stop feeling that villain bush wanted to evoke so that he and i get. Back i got back i think i could get back into the get her regular iraqi rick iraq as the farmer turned his back he hears the mill go creaky cranky gnat its not mean maxon marts a mean. Little bit of the best thing about dylan bush is that the hero always goes to hell or. Else and then said gravely teacher lampel there again is an example of. This is so fantastic its so fantastic so unnatural so completely nuts do they really die they really children no theyre not that fantasy figures marks on movements live on theyre an integral part of the cycle of life. I reckon the book will still be relevant in one hundred fifty years time and that wont be the last of it. It grows. With max and mole its four to mil the fama haris mazda mila hello man cry me that as quick as you can in with them each wretched flocka headlong goes into the hopper as the farmer turns his back he his the mill go careening cracky here you see the bits postmortem just as fate was pleased to sort of lost the millers ducks with speed and gobbled up in the course grain feed chuse him. Get ready for some weekend. Very. Long a. Usa w. Every match day weekend the board is week on saturdays and sundays w four for a place you own. You an infant behind bars. Set cons parents of both journalists both have been detained in a texas prison. The two year old lives with his mother and is sometimes permitted to visit his father. With seconds life ever return to normal. In thirty minutes. Welcome to quadriga art but isnt that. What you read is that. Womens talk w. Smart women. 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