The Most Famous
COMIC ARTISTS from Germany
This page contains a list of the greatest German Comic Artists. The pantheon dataset contains 226 Comic Artists, 1 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 19th most number of Comic Artists behind Chile, and China.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary German Comic Artists of all time. This list of famous German Comic Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. E. O. Plauen (1903 - 1944)
With an HPI of 48.76, E. O. Plauen is the most famous German Comic Artist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
E. O. Plauen (often stylized as e.o.plauen) was the pseudonym of Erich Ohser (18 March 1903 – 5 April 1944) (some sources give his birth year as 1909), a German cartoonist best known for his strip Vater und Sohn ("Father and Son").
2. Rudolph Dirks (1877 - 1968)
With an HPI of 47.16, Rudolph Dirks is the 2nd most famous German Comic Artist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Rudolph Dirks (February 26, 1877 – April 20, 1968) was one of the earliest and most noted comic strip artists, well known for The Katzenjammer Kids (later known as The Captain and the Kids). Dirks was born in Heide, Germany, to Johannes and Margaretha Dirks. When he was seven years old, his father, a woodcarver, moved the family to Chicago, Illinois. After having sold various cartoons to local magazines Rudolph moved to New York City and found work as a cartoonist. His younger brother Gus soon followed his example. He held several jobs as an illustrator, which culminated in a position with William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. The circulation war between the Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's New York World was raging. The World had a huge success with the full-color Sunday feature, Down in Hogan's Alley, better known as the Yellow Kid, starting in 1895. Editor Rudolph Block asked Dirks to develop a Sunday comic based on Wilhelm Busch's cautionary tale, Max and Moritz. When Dirks submitted his sketches, Block dubbed them The Katzenjammer Kids, and the first strip appeared on December 12, 1897. Gus Dirks assisted his brother with The Katzenjammer Kids during the first few years until his suicide on June 10, 1902.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as German comic artists born between 1877 and 1903. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased German comic artists include E. O. Plauen, and Rudolph Dirks. As of April 2024, 1 new German comic artists have been added to Pantheon including E. O. Plauen.
