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Hagar picked up in Switzerland (again)
It’s not often that I get to report on comic page changes outside of the United States, but Hagar the Horrible was recently picked up by a free daily called “.ch” When the Swiss newspaper “Blick” redesigned the paper, it dropped Hagar for lack of space and .ch picked it up. .ch is a free publication - you can down load a pdf of their newspaper everyday if you’d like to read Hagar in Swiss (see May 7th’s example below.)
Also running on their comics page are: Divine Comedy, a feature set in heaven drawn by Damien Glez, a french cartoonist living in Africa, Knallfrosch (I believe this is the translated version of Fred Wagner’s Animal Crackers), Pohls Unarten, a panel by Horst Pohl, and Shit happens (a title so universal they didn’t need to translate it?). I couldn’t find any information on this last feature. There’s a webcomic by the same title, but it was clearly not the same.
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Community Comments
May/9/2008 @ 7:46 am
The ISO country code for Switzerland is CH –which comes from the Latin formal name of Switzerland, Confoederatio Helvetica.
May/9/2008 @ 8:01 am
I love Hagar. It’s usually the first thing I read in the newspaper.
May/9/2008 @ 9:16 am
Hagar is always a guaranteed daily laugh!!!
May/10/2008 @ 8:22 am
Shit happens! is a cartoon series by the german cartoonist Ralph Ruthe. He`s drawing Shit happens! since 5 or 6 years now and it`s is well known in Germany.
You can find informations about Ralph Ruthe on the german Wikipedia or on his website ruthe.de.
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