Jonka, Jonek and Kleks are characters from the Polish

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series for children and youth created by

Szarlota Pawel Szarlota Pawel; actual name, Eugenia Joanna Pawel-Kroll (4 November 1947 – 7 September 2018) was a Polish comic book artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (s ...

. They first appeared in 1974, in the issue 39 (May 14) of the magazine '' Świat Młodych''. Jonka and Jonek and a girl and a boy, while Kleks (literally meaning " inkblot") is a fantastic creature that was born out of an

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and drinks ink. Szarlota Pawel followed the advice of the Polish comic authority Henryk Chmielewski to create a trio of two child and one fantastic characters.Olga Winiarczyk
Fantastic Comics
/ref> The 50th anniversary collection describes the series thusly: " Jonka and Jonek, brought up among the panel houses of

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, break away from their daily routine thanks to Kleks and enter the land of fantasy and dreams." Szarlota Pawel based her plots on books and fairy tales, sayings, and superstitions familiar to Polish children. The comics were published in the magazine, initially in black and white, and later in color, and since 1980s as standalone albums. The 1983 album ' (''The Abduction of the Princess'') was translated into Russian as ' in 1989. In 2006 published an adaptation, under the title ''Jonka, Jonek i Kleks'', as a Level 1 reading in the children's book series .Czytam sobie – poziom 1
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{{reflist Polish comics Comics characters introduced in 1974 Fictional Polish people

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