The first newspaper Sister and Wiske published, the Flemish The standard, interrupts the daily strip on the duo. With this, the two cartoon characters disappear from the newspapers after 77 years, Belgian media reports.
The stories of Sister and Wiske has appeared in episodes every day since the end of World War II. Other newspapers also had such a popular follow-up comic. The couple also appeared in Dutch newspapers. The comic serials were then released as albums.
With the last episode of the story The angry pig comes to an end a tradition that began in 1945 in what was then still The new standard was and initially Rikki and Wiske It was called.
Willy Vandersteen and later Studio Vandersteen delivered a piece of a story every day. “It was hard work,” says Roel Daenen, editor-in-chief of Stripgids VRT News. “It’s also surprising that the first few episodes were drawn rather quickly and sloppily.”
Daenen tries to enter the end of the streak The standard explained as a trade-off between costs and benefits. “And what’s more, the quality of the Sister and Wiskethe stories are no longer the same as before.
