Kurt Dunder
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Kurt Dunder is a Danish cartoon
Cartoon
A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...

 drawn and written by Frank Madsen
Frank Madsen
Frank Madsen is a contemporary Danish illustrator and cartoonist. He is the author of Kurt Dunder created in the ligne claire style also known from Hergé's Tintin.Frank Bruun Madsen was born in 1962 in the Danish town of Kalundborg....

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The main characters are the pipe smoking adventurer Kurt and his friend Bill, which together with the monkey Attila travel around the world and solve strange mysteries and riddles.
The cartoon is drawn in the ligne claire
Ligne claire
Ligne claire is a style of drawing pioneered by Hergé, the Belgian creator of The Adventures of Tintin. It uses clear strong lines of uniform importance. Artists working in it do not use hatching, while contrast is downplayed as well...

-style also known from Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...

 and is published by the Danish publishing house Carlsen.
Published in English:
  1. Kurt Dunder in Tirol (2000)


Published in Danish:
  1. Kurt Dunder i Afrika (1991)
  2. Kurt Dunder i Grønland (1994)
  3. Kurt Dunder i Tyrol (2000)


2002-03 the cartoon magazine Kurt Dunder & Kompagni, containing the
history Kurt Dunder & Nanobotterne. This story will be published as a 100 pages book in Manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

format fall 2008. A 6 pages Kurt Dunder-story, Den månesyge Mumie (The moonstruck mummy), which was published 1993 in the anthology Gale Streger no. 6. It was written by Ingo Milton, layouted by Frank Madsen
Frank Madsen
Frank Madsen is a contemporary Danish illustrator and cartoonist. He is the author of Kurt Dunder created in the ligne claire style also known from Hergé's Tintin.Frank Bruun Madsen was born in 1962 in the Danish town of Kalundborg....

and drawn by Sussi Bech.

Spring 2008 Kurt Dunder will be published in a number of European Countries as an interactive mobile phone cartoon from Catooz.com.

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