C. & V. Hansen is the name used by the Danish couple Carla and Vilhelm Hansen to sign their ''

Rasmus Klump ''Rasmus Klump'' (translates to ''Rasmus Lump'' or ''Erasmus Lump'') is a Danish comic strip series for children created in 1951 by the Danish wife-and-husband team Carla and Vilhelm Hansen. The series was translated into a number of foreign lan ...

'' comics (in English known as ''Bruin'').

Biography

Vilhelm Hansen (May 6, 1900 – December 23, 1992) and Carla Hansen (September 19, 1906 – December 6, 2001) were an artistic couple. He was a trained lithographist, while she was a writer. Vilhelm worked mainly as an advertising artist between the two World Wars, and only started making comics and illustrating the tales written by Carla in the 1940s. Their collaborative comic ''

'', about the adventures of a bear, a pelican, a penguin, and some other animals, debuted in Denmark on November 17, 1951, as a daily

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. It soon became one of the most popular European children comics, being translated and distributed into many languages and countries, mainly by the publishing houses

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and

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. While they no longer wrote or drew the stories after 1965, it was their names that stayed on the albums.

Bibliography

*De Tidlige Børnebøger, a series of children books from the 1940s and 1950s illustrated by Vilhelm Hansen *Eventyr, a series of fairy tales written by Carla Hansen in the 1950s *Rasmus Klump, started in 1951: 36 comic albums and some accompanying books and illustrations

Awards

*2002: Vilhelm Hansen is the subject of a Danish stamp

References

External links

Biography of Vilhelm HansenFan site, with pictures of Carla and Vilhelm
Danish children's writers Danish comic strip cartoonists Danish comics artists Danish comics writers Danish animal artists Married couples Writers who illustrated their own writing Comics duos {{comics-creator-stub