I know that Vang Nyman isn't everyones cup of tea, but here are a few samples scanned from the original publication in "Klumpe Dumpe".
Enjoy!
[ BTW: I hope these will be properly restored from the original publications or original art, as the current Swedish editions are looking terrible. Supposedly "restored" but looking like second generation, re-inked photo copies... ]
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| A piece of original art. |
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| An issue of Klumpe Dumpe and a special comic book published in Sweden. |
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I've never been a great Pippi Longstocking fan, so I'm ignorant of her history. However when my kids were little we read some of the stories. Which leads to my question:
How and when did the original Pippi you show here turn into the tall, skinny girl with socks with horizontal red stripes? This is how she looked in the storybooks we read. Is that an American re-design of the character, or derived from a movie, or--???
From what I have heard Ingrid Vang Nyman, who did the drawings above, wanted hig fees for her drawings to be used in other countries. So some publishers made their own versions of Pippi.
I don't know if Vang's illustrations were used in the US or not. But I know that Vang did a taller version of Pippi used in the story books.
I also recall Vang explaining somewhere why the characters were short and blocky in the comics, it had somethng to do whith that she felt it suited the square panels better. Makes sense.
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