Lil i Put
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Lil and Put (Lil i Put) is a ongoing comedy-fantasy Polish comic book series for children created by Maciej Kur (script) and Piotr Bednarczyk (art).
The series centres on adventures of two "Małoludy" ("Not-much-people", a Hobbit-like race) named Lil and Put (obvious pun on Liliputs from the novel Gulliver's Travels). The duo are vagabonds travelling the land looking for easy meals and money, usually getting into trouble. The stories are currently publish in Nowa Fantastyka magazine.
The series is set in a fantasy pastiche land, full of mythological creatures from well known centaurs, fairies, trolls dragons and dwarfs to obscure Slavic mythology utopiec or Leszy [1] as well races created by Kur and Bednarczyk. A notable character is a female elf sorceress named Miksja Iskier who is a college student at travelling wizard school.[2][3] The humor is similar to Asterix series combining gags for younger and older audience mixing slapstick, puns and zany scenarios with references (both pop-cultural and literary), satirical elements and dark humor targeted at adult readers.
History
The initial story won award for comic series for children in the spirit of Janusz Christa (author of the legendary Polish comic strip series Kajko i Kokosz) in March 2014 and meet with positive reception[4][5] The first book version, Jak przelać kota do kieliszka? (How do you pour a cat into a drinking glass?) premiered the same year at International Festival of Comics and Games at Łódź. The series is published by Egmont Poland, the largest Polish comic book publishing company.[6] In 2017 one of the stories became part of Polish textbook for 7'th grade children.[7] Since the same yeear the stories became a regular part of the popular Nowa Fantastyka magazine (known for being the debut place of The Witcher) A lot of stories from the magazine are yet to appear in the book form.
List of titles
- Lil i Put 01 – Jak przelać kota do kieliszka? (2014) ["How to pour a cat into the drinkig glass?]
- Lil i Put 02 – CHODU!!! (2015) ["RUN!!!]
- Lil i Put 03 – Czarująca Panna Młoda (2017) ["The enchanting bride"] [8]
- Lil i Put 04 - Zawodowi Bumelanci (2019) ["Professional shirkers"] [9]
- Lil i Put 05 - Parada Przypałów (2020) ["The Blunder parade"] [10]
References
- ^ "Bojkoblog". wiara.pl.
- ^ "Magazyn Miłośników Komiksu - RECENZJA – "LIL I PUT: JAK PRZELAĆ KOTA DO KIELISZKA?"". kzet.pl.
- ^ ""Lil i Put" tom 2: "Chodu!!!" - recenzja - Paradoks". paradoks.net.pl.
- ^ "Nowi polscy autorzy komiksu dziecięcego - Laureaci I. Ogólnopolskiego Konkursu im. Janusza Christy". efantastyka.pl.
- ^ Grupa Wirtualna Polska. "Konkurs im. Janusza Christy rozstrzygnięty". komiks.wp.pl.
- ^ "Kulturownia.pl". kulturownia.pl.
- ^ https://www.komiks.gildia.pl/news/2017/08/lil-i-put-beda-edukowac-w-szkole-podstawowej
- ^ "Egmont: znamy zapowiedzi do końca roku!" (in Polish). moviesroom.pl. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
- ^ "Lil i Put. Zawodowi bumelanci. Tom 4 - Komiks - Księgarnia Internetowa Egmont". egmont.pl. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
- ^ https://egmont.pl/Lil-i-Put.-Parada-przypalow.-Tom-5,32646147,p.html