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Bleeker to appear in German newspaper
Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog will begin appearing in Germany’s Die Zeit weekly newspaper for a 12 week run on their kid’ page. Die Zeit has a circulation of about 500,000 and an estimated readership of 2 million. Jonathan writes on his blog that “editors chose Bleeker because it appealed to both children and their adult readers.”
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Community Comments
May/30/2008 @ 9:01 am
From Comics Sherpa to international print cartoonist within a one year–Congrats, Jonathan!
May/30/2008 @ 9:33 am
Glückwünsche! Sind die Karikaturen wird in Deutsch oder Englisch?
May/30/2008 @ 9:54 am
Die Karikaturen sind auf Deutsch, ich erwarten.
May/30/2008 @ 11:30 am
Oh. Natürlich.
May/30/2008 @ 6:39 pm
It’s a really good strip, well done.
May/31/2008 @ 8:04 am
Thanks everyone! It should be fun to see how it goes over.
June/1/2008 @ 5:53 am
Hey, Euer Deutsch ist ja klasse!
Congrats to Jonathan - Die Zeit is highly esteemed in Germany and the rest of Europe.
I’m sure the editors will do well with translation. Most Germans can read and speak English, and Zeit-readers for sure can do both.
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