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Hank Ketcham, March 14, 1920 - June 1, 2001 Henry King Ketcham was born on March 14, 1920 in Seattle, where he grew up. He knew he wanted to be a cartoonist when he was six years old. He dropped out of college at the University of Washington in 1938 to go to Southern California and work for the mehr anzeigen creator of "Woody Woodpecker" and Disney. Ketcham enlisted in the Navy during the second World War and drew cartoons for Navy posters, training material and war bond advertisements. After the war, Ketcham became a free lance cartoonists, and discovered his muse for "Dennis the Menace" from the antics of his four year old son, Dennis, whose mother declared him a menace. The cartoon strip debuted in 16 newspapers and was an instant success. Ketcham had a team of writers who helped him with ideas for the strip and kept those ideas new and the strip running. Ketcham stopped writing the strip himself in 1994 and hired the team of Marcus Hamilton and Ronald Ferdinand to continue the strip for him. In March of 2001, the cartoon strip celebrated fifty years in print, having run in 1,000 papers, 48 countries and 19 languages. The cartoon strip was also made into books, a television show, a musical and a feature film. The t.v. show ran from 1959 til 1963 and starred Jay North as Dennis. The comic strip itself changed little over the years, Dennis never grew up but continued to torment Mr. Wilson, and still appeal to so many people. Hank Ketcham died at his home in Pebble Beach on June 1, 2001 at the age of 81 from heart disease and cancer. weniger anzeigen

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Dennis the Menace vs. Everybody (1956) 53 Exemplare
The Merchant of Dennis the Menace (1990) — Autor — 48 Exemplare
Wanted: Dennis the Menace (1956) 34 Exemplare
Typisch Dennis! : 1:0 für Gott (1993) 34 Exemplare
Dennis the Menace Rides Again (1955) 33 Exemplare
Dennis the Menace...Who Me? (1962) 26 Exemplare
Dennis the Menace (1952) 24 Exemplare
Dennis the Menace: Happy Half-Pint (1961) — Autor — 23 Exemplare
Dennis the Menace Busybody (1974) 16 Exemplare
More Dennis the Menace (1954) 15 Exemplare
Dennis the Menace Just for Fun (1973) 12 Exemplare
Dennis the Menace and His Girls (1977) 12 Exemplare
Half Hitch (1971) 9 Exemplare
Little Man in a Big Hurry (1976) 9 Exemplare
Dennis the Menace to the Core (1975) 9 Exemplare
I Wanna Go Home! (1965) 6 Exemplare
Supercharged and Ever Ready! (1983) 5 Exemplare
Well God I goofed again (1973) 3 Exemplare
Just Dennis (1963) 2 Exemplare
Dennis the Menace: Howdy! (1991) 2 Exemplare
Happy Half-Pint 1 Exemplar
Dennis the Menace #83 (1970) 1 Exemplar
Dennis & Ruff 1 Exemplar
Daniel el travieso. Album 4 (1951) 1 Exemplar

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Dennis the Menace [1993 film] (2003) — Original characters — 94 Exemplare
A Dennis the Menace Christmas [2007 video] (2007) — Autor — 15 Exemplare
Dennis the Menace #30, September 1958 — Autor — 1 Exemplar
Dennis the Menace #21, March 1957 (1957) — Autor — 1 Exemplar
Dennis the Menace #86, September 1966 (1966) — Autor — 1 Exemplar

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Dennis la minaccia è una famosa striscia a fumetti statunitense, nata negli anni '50, da cui sono stati tratti negli anni cartoni animati e film. Iconico il biondissimo Dennis con le sue immancabili salopette e maglia a righe.
Da noi in Italia però non è mai stato troppo famoso, sicuramente molto meno dei Peanuts di Schultz o della Mafalda di Quino, per rimanere nell'ambito delle vignette incentrate sui bambini; il motivo penso di averlo scoperto leggendo questo libro, che raccoglie le storie degli esordi.
Innanzitutto è un fumetto profondamente americano, che ci mostra lo stereotipo della tipica famiglia di provincia: agiati, di bella presenza e senza un problema al mondo (a parte la piccola peste ovviamente); tra cene del ringraziamento, baseball e Halloween, dubito che negli anni in cui è stato scritto potesse risultare familiare agli italiani. Non solo l'ambientazione, anche le tematiche sono meno universali. Lì dove i personaggi di Schultz affrontano questioni esistenziali e Quino manda forti messaggi di critica politica e sociale tramite le sue vignette, Ketcham si limita a scrivere storielle su un bambino discolo. Innegabilmente piacevoli e divertenti, ma nulla di più.
Dove però a mio parere supera i suoi colleghi è nel disegno: il suo tratto è sempre incisivo, ogni linea ha una precisa funzione e dietro l'apparente essenzialità è tutto curato fin nel minimo dettaglio. E' particolarmente impressionante come riesca a far convivere in Dennis l'innocenza e la monelleria, è disegnato in maniera così tenera e vivace che non si può fare a meno di volergli bene nonostante tutto.
Non avevo mai letto questa striscia e penso fosse una lacuna che andava colmata, ma nonostante sia stata una lettura divertente non mi ha interessato al punto da voler proseguire con gli altri volumi.
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Lilirose_ | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 31, 2021 |
I love that so many comic strips are getting the complete reprint treatment these days. I never would have picked it before becoming re-familiarized with it through Fantagraphic's fine reprints, but "Dennis the Menace" was certainly an underrated and well-chosen candidate for it. I would imagine one-panel cartoons are harder than the multi-panel format, but Ketcham pulled it off for decades, consistently at a high level of humor, and an artistic line and design that show an effortless mastery. It's not a brilliant psychological study on the level of "Peanuts". It's just a very good, funny one panel comic strip about a mischievous little boy that has never disappointed.… (mehr)
 
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burnit99 | Dec 12, 2010 |
Another two years of Hank Ketcham's underrated one-panel strip about a mischievous young boy. This is a very good strip, very nearly a great one (several panels here are imbued with enough deeper meaning that it nearly rises to the level of "Peanuts"). I can't think of another that excels it in design and careful artistic organization. Add to that the consistently high marks for humor, if not bellylaughs, and you have... a very good strip, very nearly a great one.
 
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burnit99 | Aug 9, 2010 |
I didn't really appreciate Ketcham's artistry when I read his cartoons in the newspaper as a child. He did set himself a pretty narrow working space; a one-panel cartoon about a 6-year-old boy, a real "boy's boy" who's a lot more mischievous than most, but with a basically good heart. And it can't go much beyond the bounds of believability, and the artwork has to be inobtrusive but contribute perfectly to the idea, and it's gotta be funny... and the artist has to do it every day for decades without letup, repetition or fall in humor. Pretty tall order. There are a few comic strip artists that have done this, but offhand I can't think of any that have done it this well or long with a single panel. "Dennis the Menace" may be one of the more underappreciated comic strips I know of.… (mehr)
 
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