Rolf Kauka

Rolf Kauka was a German comic artist, most famous for the series Fix and Foxi. In 1951, Rolf Kauka founded Kauka Publishing. Aside from Rolf Kauka's original comic characters, Kauka Publishing introduced to German audiences such international series as Asterix and The Smurfs from France and Belgium. Some characters received Germanized names, for instance,Spirou& Fantasio/ Pit& Pikkolo, Gaston Lagaffe/ Jojo, etc. In 1973, Kauka sold his publishing house to the English publisher IPC and the Dutch publishing group VNU. He maintained his right of authority, but removed himself from the active publishing world.