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''De Lustige Kapoentjes'' (literally: ''"The Joyful Rascals"'') was a long-running Flemish comic book series, which existed under different titles and was drawn by different artists, among whom Marc Sleen (''"The Lustige Kapoentjes"'') and Willy Vandersteen (''"De Vrolijke Bengels"'') are the most well known. The series was published in '''t Kapoentje'', the youth supplement of ''Het Volk'', and in ''Ons Volkske'', the youth supplement of ''De Standaard''. They were the mascots of '''t Kapoentje'' from 1947 until the magazine's demise in 1985. The weekly gag-a-day comic was very popular in the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. In all of its incarnations the concept was the same: a group of children play tricks on adults and frequently get their revenge on a local police officer and an older evil young adult. ==Origins== In 1933 Flemish comic strip artist Eugeen Hermans, aka "Pink", published the gag-a-day comic ''Filipke en de Rakkers'' in ''Ons Volkske'', inspired by similar American comic book series such as Martin Branner's ''Perry and the Rinkydinks'', Rudolph Dirks' ''The Katzenjammer Kids'' and Dutch artist Frans Piët's ''Sjors van de Rebellenclub''. In 1940 ''Ons Volkske'' had to cease publication due to the Nazi invasion of World War Two.〔VAN HOOYDONCK, Pieter, “Willy Vandersteen: de Bruegel van het Beeldverhaal”, Standaard Uitgeverij, Antwerpen, 1994, page 67-68, 87, 88, 89, 95, 113, 116, 118, 125, 130, 175, 177, 183.〕 On April 3, 1947, a new magazine was launched called '''t Kapoentje'', where Willy Vandersteen published a new version of the same concept called "De Vrolijke Bengels" ("The Joyful Rascals").〔 The characters in this series were: * Poliet: A smart boy who wears glasses and always makes handy inventions. He speaks in rhyme. * Vlooike: A smart girl with pig tails. * Pontius and Pilatus: Two twin boys who are both deaf. As a result, they never understand what is going on and frequently ask one another for more information, with predictable bad results. * Patatje: An obese boy who was only present in the early episodes. Later he was removed from the series. * Tieter: A vain, arrogant and stupid police officer. He always thinks he is the best and smartest and seldom understands people are fooling him. When he troubles the children they play a trick back on him. His attitude is comparable to another character by Vandersteen: Lambik. * Job: A bad young adult who enjoys bullying and tricking other people, especially the children. They frequently help Tieter to arrest or punish him. * Mie Pladijs: A house wife who bakes cakes. She is frequently a victim of Job's pranks and thefts. ''De Vrolijke Bengels'' quickly became popular among the youth and were translated into French as ''Les Joyeux Lurons''. On November 6, 1947, Vandersteen joined ''De Standaard'', where he continued in the series in their youth supplement ''Ons Volkske''. 〔 On March 16, 1950, the children in the series were replaced by ''Suske en Wiske'' and Lambik became Tieter's deputy police officer. 〔 The original title remained the same. On April 30, 1953, the original children returned and Suske, Wiske and Lambik were removed from the series again. On September 2, 1954, the final gag episode of ''De Vrolijke Bengels'' was published. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「De Lustige Kapoentjes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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