Die Abrafaxe was Mosaik’s new venture. The traditional

issue told just one story, though of several pages, drawn

by a team of authors, each one with the task to create just one, or at least two, characters of the story line. One

cartoonist created the page layout, another one the comic background, and so on, using a procedure very similar to that of animated cartoons. With the aim to reach more modern readers, they produced a new single issue of about thirty plates drawn by two cartoonists at maximum and with a more sophisticated colouring. As for the short stories, they were also modified: one of the changes regarded the lack of a stable setting for the adventures. They may take place in a Medieval Japanese society in a story, or in Chicago during the 1930s in another one. Historical events, historical characters or specific mythological situations were the only common traits in the scripts. In order to  justify these spatial and temporal leaps, they decided to think of them like time travelers, belonging to our time and coming from an imaginary Italian small town, Minimaritta.

Emanuela and I drew two issue numbers, that you will see, written both by the good Hubertus Rufledt!