Walter Neugebauer (sometimes Slavicized as Valter Nojgebauer; 28 March 1921 – 31 May 1992) was a
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comic book
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artist and animator. Neugebauer is considered one of the founders of comics in Croatia, along with
Andrija Maurović.
Biography
Neugebauer debuted his first strip in the Zagreb review ''Oko'' in October 1935. In 1943, Walter and his brother Norbert launched the weekly comic ''Zabavnik'', which was published for two years before being banned by the new
communist government
A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state that is administered and governed by a communist party guided by Marxism–Leninism. Marxism–Leninism was the state ideology of the Soviet Union, the Cominte ...
in May 1945.
HiES - Croatian Comic Strips Before WWII
/ref> In 1945, Neugebauer was creating an illustrated version of ''Brother Jaglenac and Sister Rutvica'' from Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (; 18 April 1874 – 21 September 1938) was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
Early life
She was born on 18 April 1874 i ...
's ''Croatian Tales of Long Ago
''Croatian Tales of Long Ago'' ( hr, Priče iz davnine lit. "Stories from Ancient Times"), is a short story collection written by the acclaimed children's author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (sometimes spelled as "Ivana Berlić-Mažuranić" in Englis ...
'' which was never completed.
Later he worked in West Germany for '' Fix and Foxi''.
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References
Walter Neugebauer
at Lambiek
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's Comiclopedia
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1992 deaths
1921 births
Artists from Tuzla
Croatian comics artists
Yugoslav artists