Felix in Utopia

Finally! One of my favorite Felix stories has been collected!

It's Werner Wejp-Olsen's story "Felix in Utopia" (his take on Orwell's 1984). If you've only read the Jan Lööf version of Felix you are in for a treat. Werner gave the strip his own touch and knew every storytelling trick in the book when it came to grab the readers attention and he knew how to keep the readers interested in the story. To say that I was a dedicated follower of Felix in the 70's is an understatement.
I loved this. And I still do. :)

Available as e-book from Replikant, saxo.com and williamdam.dk
Will also be available as an app from http://www.Dansketegneserieskabere.dk

Check it out!

Felix - in color!

Werner Wejp-Olsen just sent me a couple of colored Felix pages. (See previous Felix posts HERE.) It's nice to see how the artist himself envisions the colors to his work. A strip he did more than 30 yeas ago and intended for black and white newspaper publication.
The samples below are from the Utopia storyline.


Now, I've said it before and I say it again: These un-reprinted Felix strips needs to be reprinted here in Scandinavia. I can't possibly be the only with nostalgic childhood memories to them. Kartago will soon have reprinted the full run of Jan Lööfs version of the strip. Wich publisher is smart enough to secure the rights to the later strips?

/Joakim.

Felix week - Part IV

To end this "Felix week" here are a few strips from what I believe is the final episode that Wejp-Olsen made himself.
(I've seen later strips by him inked by some one else.)
In this story, "Felix and Hatman", the super hero Hatman is constantly beeing attacked by a mysterious villain. It turns out that the villain actually is the cartoonist that created Hatman. The strips below are from the sequence when Hatman first meets his creator.



How it ends? Well, let's hope someone reprints Wejp-Olsens run on the strip. ;)

Felix week - Part III

Two more samples from Wejp-Olsens run of Felix. The first one from Felix in Micropolis ...


... and the second from Felix and the Treasure of King Salomon.

Felix in Utopia

Here's another teaser of what's out there, for those of you who are Felix fans.
These are from one of the best adventures: "Felix in Utopia". Werner Wejp-Olsen's take on Orwells 1984.

Felix week - Part I

I guess this post only will be of interest to the Swedish and Danish readers, but anyway...

This weekend the creator of Felix, Jan Lööf, visited Gothenburg and the Bookfair.
That made me think of the OTHER Felix artist. Most scandinavians are familar with Lööf's original version of Felix, but seems to have forgotten that Felix actually continued long after he left the strip.
The artist/writer that succeded him was Werner Wejp-Olsen and it was his version of the strip that ran in the papers when I was a kid. I remember saving the strips from the newspaper and I read them over and over and again.
Until I was 10 or so.
My birthday party was coming up and I was ashamed of having a comic strip collection.
So I took all the strips I had saved (Since I was 5!) and threw them all away... I think I had more than 75% of Wejp-Olsens run. Sigh...
But a few years ago I got hold of a collection that included tearsheets of many of the stories I enjoyed as a kid.
Only a few of his stories was reprinted in albums in the early 80's. This post and the upcoming Felix posts will show strips from the unreprinted stories. Just to make some of you bug the publishers to reprint them. ;)

Here we go. Some strips from the Van Gook story. (Felix #16) Notice two familar faces showing up at the end of the story.
(I'm just too tired to write something substantial about Felix today. I save that for later. Until then, read and enjoy.)






Unfortunately I don't have any 100% complete adventures. So if you got tearsheets to loan or sell I'd be happy to hear from you. :)