Creator from Germany

Wolfgang J. Fuchs

Born 16 September 1945, Unsleben; died 20 January 2020, Munich.

Wolfgang J. Fuchs was a German nonfiction author, journalist, comics scholar, comics author, comics translator and film expert. He co-wrote the first standard work in German on comics as an art form, published in 1971. He translated comics such as Prince Valiant, Garfield, and Mom's Cancer by Brian Fies. The translated book Mutter hat Krebs was awarded the 2007 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.