Luxembourg.
Luxembourg
1922
Luxembourg's comics grew from interwar press cartooning, led by Albert Simon of the satirical weekly De Gukuk, into the comic pages of the magazine Revue, where Péil Schlechter's De Bim an de Jopi (1948 to 1952) and Gab Weis's Mil (from 1952) were the first comics both drawn and written by Luxembourgers.
The best-selling home-grown series is Roger Leiner and Lucien Czuga's Superjhemp, a Luxembourgish-language superhero parody begun in Revue in 1987. Since 1994 the comics festival in Contern has anchored a scene of albums, manga and graphic novels.
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2010s
Artists from Luxembourg in the archive.
Comics from Luxembourg in the archive.
De Gukuk, the earliest comic from Luxembourg in the archive.
The decade when the most new comics from Luxembourg began.
Comic, bande dessinée
Luxembourg in 4 chapters
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Luxembourg.
4 chapters
Chapter 1
1922
to 1945
Satirical press and the first cartoonists
1922
to 1945
Chapter 01
Satirical press and the first cartoonists
The satirical weekly De Gukuk, founded by the lawyer Eugène Forman, appeared in Luxembourgish and German from 1922 to 1934, with Albert Simon as its cartoonist from 1923 to 1931. Simon, the best-known Luxembourg caricaturist before the Second World War, joined the Tageblatt in 1931 and from 1934 filled a weekly humour page with recurring local characters; his cartoons mocking Hitler led the German occupiers to sentence him to death in his absence in 1940.
1945
to 1985
Chapter 02
Revue and the first Luxembourg comics
Émile Probst founded the magazine Revue in 1945 and it soon carried comics. Péil Schlechter's De Bim an de Jopi ran there from October 1948 to October 1952, and Gab Weis, who drew a weekly joke page for Revue from 1946 to 1951, launched his best-known hero Mil in 1952. Political cartooning also thrived, with Alphonse Deloos drawing weekly for d'Letzeburger Land from 1959 to 1982.
1986
to 2006
Chapter 03
Superjhemp and the Luxembourgish album
Lucien Czuga and Roger Leiner began with the traffic police strip De Pechert in Weekend in 1986 and created Superjhemp for Revue in 1987, a parody superhero whose Luxembourgish-language adventures became the country's best-selling comic and were filmed in 2018. The festival in Contern has run every July since 1994, Pierre Decock's Tun and Frunnes moved from the magazine Zack into albums, and Andy Genen began drawing Czuga's three-part De leschte Ritter in 2005.
2007
to today
Chapter 04
Chronicles, museums and graphic novels
Luke Haas published the chronicle Comics in, aus und über Luxemburg in 2007, and Florin Balaban opened a museum of caricature and cartoon in Vianden in 2008. Recent work ranges from Sabrina Kaufmann's manga and Jean-Louis Schlesser and Marc Angel's graphic novel De Jas (2015) to Fortific(a)tions (2020), an anthology about Luxembourg City published by the organisers of the Contern festival.
The comics to know
- De Bim an de Jopi1948 · comic stripPéil Schlechter. Ran in Revue until October 1952; the first comic by a Luxembourger.
- Mil1952 · comic stripGab Weis. Adventure comic that ran in Revue for years.
- De Pechert1986 · comic stripLucien Czuga and Roger Leiner. Strip about bumbling traffic police in Weekend.
- De Superjhemp1987 · comic book seriesLucien Czuga and Roger Leiner. Luxembourgish-language superhero parody and the country's best-selling comic.
- De leschte Ritter2005 · comic book seriesLucien Czuga and Andy Genen. Three-volume adventure published by Éditions Revue, 2005 to 2009.
- Fortific(a)tions2020 · graphic novelFrënn vun der 9. Konscht anthology. Six stories about Luxembourg City in three languages.
The people to know
- Albert SimonCaricaturist, 1901 to 1956Best-known Luxembourg caricaturist before the Second World War.
- Péil SchlechterComics artist, 1921 to 2026Pioneer of Luxembourg comics with De Bim an de Jopi.
- Gab WeisComics artist, 1926 to 1994Creator of Mil in Revue.
- Roger LeinerComics artist, 1955 to 2016Artist of Superjhemp.
- Lucien CzugaComics writer, Born 1954Writer of Superjhemp, De leschte Ritter and Jamie Blond.
- Andy GenenComics artist, Born 1979Artist of De leschte Ritter and De roude Puma.
- Luke HaasComics artist, 1949 to 2015Chronicler of Luxembourg comics.
More artists from Luxembourg
All 31 artists- Pascale VelleineBorn 1960 · comics artist
- Marion DenglerBorn 1992 · comics artist
- Fern WeirichBorn 1948 · comics artist
- Pol LeursBorn 1947 · cartoonist
- Diane ErnzenBorn 1985 · cartoonist
- Claude ChristBorn 1969 · comics artist
- Carlo SchneiderBorn 1956 · cartoonist
- Roger WohlfartBorn 1944 · cartoonist
- Jérôme GrethenBorn 1975 · cartoonist
- Josy Greisen1916 to 2001 · cartoonist
- Romain LenertzBorn 1953 · cartoonist
- Carlo SchmitzBorn 1959 · cartoonist
More comics from Luxembourg
All 19 comics- De Gukuk1922 to 1934 · comics magazine
- Lëtzebuerg sicht de Luxonaut2025 · graphic novel
- Jamie BlondJamie Blond - De Spioun vun der Kroun2015 · comic book series
- Les anecdotes de Théo Watermaelgraphic novel
- Edelmut und Roselindecomic strip
- De roude Puma2012 · graphic novel
- Wurzelwelt-Chronikgraphic novel
- Prehistoriacomic book series
- Eine Seite Humor1934 · comic strip
- Tun & Frunnescomic book series
- De Coyote am Schofspelz2017 · graphic novel
- De Jas2015 · graphic novel