Comments on: sigh

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I am thinking of buying some Carl Barks, but then again, they would have to be the ‘real ones’ = the Erika Fuchs ones.

And I am sorry for you that you never experienced the wonders of ächz stöhn and fnf ))

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This explains a lot. I've been asked by coworkers on two occasions what Entenhausen is called in English. And both times each of us had gone away scratching our heads.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Duckburg. They all live in Duckburg.

By: EuroYank

EuroYank — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I remember when I came first to Germany in 1970 and saw the original “Last of the Mohigans,” and Bonanza, and High Chapparel and heard about Karl May. I don’t think that the 60 million Americans of German descent have anything to do with culture, but it must have something to do with the mystique of the American “Wild West” experience. Its a shame that Europeans do not have the creativity to express their thousands of years of wars and culture and discoveries to the world as we do. Maybe its politics, or maybe its just American contempt or disinterst in anything foreign that it is not a two way street.

By: gaw3

gaw3 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

My son will be heartbroken. Seuf!

By: Transblawg

Transblawg — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The Luther of German comics

Erika Fuchs, who died this week at the age of 98, began translating Micky Mouse and Donald Duck comic strips in 1951. She was famous, especially because: she didn’t translate to convey the original as minutely as possible, but to...