De Kiekeboes

De Kiekeboes ( French : Fanny et Cie) is a Flemish newspaper comics which emerged in 1977, drawn and written by Robert Merhottein ( pseudonym : Merho).   The strips are published by Standard Publishing .   The comic series is currently the most popular and best-selling comic series in Flanders with over 90,000 albums sold each year.   Until May 2010, the series was called peekaboo. [1]



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*1 Origins  ==Origins [  edit ] == The strip Peekaboo, the Belgian cartoonist Robert Merhottein, first appeared in Het Laatste Nieuws and De Nieuwe Gazet on February 15 1977 . Merhottein (pseudonym:Merho) was 29 years old. The albums were issued by J. Hoste and from album 45 by Standard Publishing . Meanwhile, the strip for publication in the newspapers Gazet van Antwerpen and Het Belang van Limburg .
 * 2 Style
 * 3 Characters
 * 3.1 Main Characters
 * 3.2 Additional Characters
 * 4 Albums
 * 5 Puns and word games
 * 6 Employees
 * 6.1 Dirk Stallaert
 * 6.2 Other
 * 7 Film and Theatre
 * 8   <span class="toctext" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none;">Trivia

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In early seventies Merho had already tried with the characters from the puppet Kiekeboe his brother Walter to make a comic. The attempt was limited to eight pages. The second attempt was more successful, with the appearance of the first Kiekeboe -album: The Wollebollen .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Over time was Kiekeboe known and popular. For example, since 1996 in Hasselt strip a wall dedicated to Kiekeboe.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">On 18 February 2004, the hundredth album appeared in the series, 27 years and 3 days after the initial appearance on 15 February 1977 .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The book "peekaboo 30 years" published on February 15th 2007 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of peekaboo. A book of up to 90 pages with articles and information about the series, the staff, the characters and how a comic is created. On May 5, 2007, was in Antwerp a strip of wall Kiekeboe inaugurated. On July 28 2007 was on the seawall of Middelkerke a statue of Fanny Kiekeboe inaugurated. In the autumn of 2008, the reference book "Kiekepedia" off. This book contains all the characters listed in the series, all with their own identity, image and name statement.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The comic series Kiekeboe gets from the 125th album (2010) a thorough restyling. The series is now called "The Kiekeboes" and the format is changed from the albums, they get the A4 size. According to the publisher, the name change is necessary because the name "peekaboo" not successful in the Netherlands. As the name would be considered too childish. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-demorgen.be_1-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  According Merho the new design and title the logical next step and the change is not so much to do with sales outside Belgium. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] ==Style <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The Kiekeboes is a typical Flemish family trip. The characters are rather anti-heroes than heroes . The situations and the narrative structure similar to that of Suske and Wiske in terms of recognition, but the series is aiming once more for a mature audience. This is manifested in the eroticism (usually in the form of teenage daughter Fanny Kiekeboe and adulterous manager Firmin Of Cobblestones ), the many references tosocial issues or current concepts ( hormones scam in about small talk , money laundering in Whiter than white ) and the infamous puns and other word games (see below). The fake advertising posters put a tradition that encourages Piet Pienter and Bert Bibber of Pom excelled.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the early days some stories of peekaboo had a big sci-factor, or lay them in terms of goodness and naivety much like other comics such as The Smurfs ( The Wollebollen ) or Suske and Wiske. However, the series quickly evolved with the times. Kiekeboes wife, Charlotte, who was a housewife faint at first, was a far more independent and assertive figure. The eroticism, which in the beginning was still quite timid and subtly present, gradually became more explicit.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The stories themselves were less naive and more locks on to real events, a few pure fiction themes like vampires ( the white blood , kiss Mona , baby vampire , Mona, the musical , Ten Thousand Days ) following.Merho pecked at the beginning of his career, sometimes directly to current events ( The village tyrant of Bulu Bulu is a parody on Idi Amin Dada and Black Sun King by Jean-Bedel Bokassa ), but did so later subtle because these jokes date too quickly. ==Characters <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Main characters <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[Secondary  Characters <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  === ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Albums  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Annually there are three or four albums. Of each album an average of 100,000 copies sold. Might happen in the future, only two or three albums a year. ==Puns and word games <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The series is known for its many puns and wordplay. These are among other things in:
 * Marcel Kiekeboe
 * Charlotte
 * Fanny
 * Constantinople
 * Leon Van Der Neffe
 * Moemoe
 * Uncle Vital
 * Fernand Goegebuer
 * Balthazar
 * Inspector Sapperdeboere
 * Firmin Of The Cobbles
 * Dede la Canaille
 * Timothy / Timothea Triangl
 * Mrs. Stokvis
 * Alanis
 * Tomboy

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Even if the first and last name of a character not necessarily a word form the names may be a pun forms. Examples Kiekeboes neighbor Leon van der Neffe ("Van der Neffe" Antwerp is for "those of opposite") and General SStoeffer out plan SStoeffer (a "stoeffer" is a Flemish dialect word for boaster.)
 * Album Titles:
 * The spray-history (a pun round spray and prehistory )
 * The Fez in Fes
 * The Aqua-rel ( watercolor )
 * Heil Bid ( halibut )
 * Jeanne Darm (Gendarme)
 * Villa Delfia (Philadelphia)
 * On signs and advertising posters which can be seen in the background:
 * Insurance Bull: "We cover everything"
 * Travel agency : "Closed due to holidays"
 * Undertaker : "Open due to bereavement"
 * Shoemaking "De Backer" / Bakery "Schoenmaeckers"
 * (125) Plants "At Repotting": "Plants repotting"
 * (128) Javel No. 5: "Channel N ° 5"
 * (128) Hugo Bros: "Hugo Boss" ( Hugo Broos = former Belgian footballer)
 * (128) 't Iszot "Tissot"
 * (128) Dom Pétillant "Dom Perignon (Champagne) (pétillant sparkling =)"
 * (130) bus to "Huys Waerts": "Back home"
 * Names of fictional countries, islands and territories:
 * Island Ernia A Hernia
 * Island Paranoia
 * Burlesconië to Silvio Berlusconi
 * San Rancun (sans grudges)
 * The Côte d'Allure (airs, or even "Cote d'Azur")
 * (128) Macadamia "Macadam"
 * (129) Domaine 'Le Trou De Pluteau ":" Domain "Cave Pluto" (remote place) "
 * (3) Lampaka: Kampala the capital of Uganda
 * (129) Liverny: "Better not"
 * Names of characters:
 * Claude Zac ( bastard )
 * Bas Ketbal ( basketball )
 * Anna Gram ( anagram )
 * Alain Provist (impromptu, French for improvised )
 * Tom Ath ( tomato )
 * Luc Touch (random)
 * Aart Appel ( potato )
 * Lex Tok (lekstok is Flemish for "Lollipop")
 * Emmy Award ( Emmy Award ) (character in Sex Kinkel)
 * Jo Hannes Burg ( Johannesburg (character in Sex Kinkel)
 * Father and son Ed and Fred Adop Adop (Antwerp for "eat it up" or. "Eats on")
 * (27) BH Van Den Bosom "Bra"
 * (27) Bill Point: "Forerunner of Paypal"
 * (27) Harm Battle "leeway"
 * (126) Winifred Caes "" Who Fret Ni Cheese "(Who Eat Cheese None)"
 * (126) Mannichi: "Monchichi"
 * (126) Rik Terrizan "" Smacks there es to "(Smell there once on)"
 * (126) Fukyu "Fuck You"
 * (126) Yakuza: "Jacuzzi"
 * (126) Britt Padt: "Brad Pitt"
 * (128) Dakanni: "I can not"
 * (128) Juan Tanimo "Guantanamo"
 * (128) Isbaazh Party: "Is Boss"
 * (128) Labra D'Or: "Labrador"
 * (128) Torry Molinos: "Torremolinos"
 * (129) Dafal Gang: "Dafalgan"
 * (130) Hoogher Octave "Octave Higher"
 * (130) Toontje Hoogher: "Show up"
 * (130) Backing Birds "Backing vocals"
 * (130) Marco Paulo: "Marco Polo"
 * (130) Bil Boa: "Bilbao"
 * (131) Poteraer "Sjoemelaar (poteren = cheat)"
 * (131) Furniture Philippe "Philippe Geubels"
 * (131) Magda Nuwelle: "Is that now"
 * (131) Candy Nuwelle "Can that now"
 * (132) Spoon Ti "Teaspoon = tsp"
 * (132) Ernest Anyway: "Ernest Hemingway"
 * (132) Block Buster "Blockbuster"
 * (132) Sho Ping Mal: ​​"Shopping mall (Mall)"
 * (133) Bill Naet "perineum"
 * (135) Barbie Poppe: "Barbie doll"
 * (135) Ingrid Jenten: "Ingredients"
 * Other
 * "Theo Reet is seen" (title of a book in the album Villa Delfia ) (Theoretically)
 * (125) Nico Tinka Cigarettes: "Nicotine"
 * (130) Fresh and monster: "Fresh and lively"
 * (130) postanal compression: "Postnatal depression"
 * (130) Dying On The Dance Floor "Stars On The Dance Floor"
 * (130) Guinea: "Cava"
 * (130) Granny Award "Grammy Award (Grandmother Granny =)"
 * (130) Digi Lexie: "Dyslexia qua Digital Technology"
 * (130) Torteldruifje "Dove Pigeon"
 * (131) Kitchen grandmother's style: Bobonne Appétit "Bonne appétit (Bobonne = grandmother)"
 * (135) Cream Cheese University in Philadelphia: "Cream cheese (cream cheese) Philadelphia (cream cheese and city in USA)"

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Other characters are puns on real names like Nana Potpourri in King Sacha ( Nana Mouskouri ), John Massif in the spray history ( John Massis ) Boer Vil in The French battle ( Bourvil ), Chef Van Ouquelle in The anonymous gourmets ( Sjef van Oekel ) and Bo Clootsaet in The Burqa Conspiracy ( Bo Coolsaet ). According to some, the name of Kiekeboes boss of the Cobblestones would refer to Willy Vandersteen, whose studio Merho initially worked.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Merho's use of humor that alternates for both children and adults is fun and puns in the names of characters are clearly inspired by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo 's Asterix . ==Employees <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Dirk Stallaert <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In January 2003, Dirk Stallaert brought to concentrate on the drawing. Stallaert had hitherto include the latest Nero-stories of Marc Sleen occupied. Merho itself focused on the development of the scenarios .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">But Stallaert thought of himself that the peekaboo style was not him, and decided in late 2005 to stop. In its place, two new assistants, Steve Van Bael (known for the comic series link and Figaro ) and Thomas Du Caju (known for the comic series Sabatini and Betty and Dodge ). Meanwhile, Steve Van Bael no longer an employee of Merho, he gave the pencil to Kristof Fagard. ===Other <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Other permanent employees Merho his wife Ria Smits, his daughter Inc, Peter cake , Thomas Du Caju , Kristof Fagard and Rik Dewulf . The latter are listed as an assistant in "The Lords of Tear Buyck." ==<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[Film  and Theatre <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  == ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Trivia  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * White blood was in 1992 worked as a pilot for a television series . Because by the budget were decided by the makers of the film video cast. A response from the TV remained off. Illustrator Merho put there years later the scissors in a DVD edition. The final result was a one-hour film annexed to the Mona album, the musical SAT.
 * In 1999 started with the making of the feature film Miss states . It was comically shown how impossible it was a peekaboo film. Due to creative differences between Merho and creators Merho already distanced himself from the film during its production. The film was still released in 2000, all but disappeared within two weeks from the cinemas because of the low audience turnout. Merho banned all forms of further publication and responded his frustrations in the album The Sims Tones . A journalist had advised him that after Merho's anger had listened. The film exists a CD with the soundtrack .
 * In the autumn of 2007 was in room Elckerlyc in Antwerp in collaboration with Studio 100 and Standard Publishing a play staged Baas top boss, based on the eponymous Kiekeboe album. The main roles were forLudo Hellinx (Marcel Kiekeboe), Veronique Leysen (Fanny Kiekeboe), Eddy Vereycken (Firmin The Cobblestones), Hans De Munter (Leon Van der Neffe) and Jan Van Looveren (Lee Posuksi). The director wasChristophe Ameye .
 * According to the album Ghosts in the house is the house of the Kiekeboes in Bokrijk .
 * Many sets of the series based on real buildings in the Antwerp village Zoersel, where author Merho lives. <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source?]
 * At the church of Zoersel is a statue of cartoon character Marcel peekaboo on a couch. The municipal primary school which is located next door, changed its name in 2011 to "The Kiekeboes. This school is also found in the album Ablaze .
 * At the American Theatre near the Atomium in Brussels there since May 2009 a fresco of the Kiekeboes job brought.
 * Marcel Kiekeboe and Merho had a cameo in the Suske and Wiske album The toy mirror .
 * The characters from the comic had a guest appearance in the album The Secret of the Garter (2001).
 * There also appeared some stories in other languages, namely the white blood and the case Luc touch .
 * in French (Fanny et cie): Le Sang Blanc and Le Cas Luc As (both translated by Thierry Martens )
 * in English (Jo and co): The White Blood and The Harry Golucky Affair
 * There also appeared a lot of advertisements albums, most of them in Dutch, but also some in French, one in English and one in German.
 * There were also some attempts to increase the popularity of peekaboo in Netherlands to increase. As appeared in the period 2003 to 2004 even six "Dutch" peekaboo albums in, not under the name of peekaboo, but under the name Fanny and Co. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] :
 * 1) The six stars
 * 2) The affair Chichi
 * 3) The essentials
 * 4) Wrong number
 * 5) The genus Kinkel
 * 6) Ablaze
 * From different albums also appeared luxury spending. These are numbered limited-editions signed by Merho, often with a hard cover, and at a larger or smaller size than regular albums. Occasionally there is a perk at (statuette, brick, bookplate ). The value of some luxury editions can be high.
 * Currently sold 100,000 copies of each new album. A total of up to 2010 sold 25 million albums Kiekeboe. <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source?]