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follow fictional authors like Finn
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Frank Madsen started work on Kurt Dunder in 1988. Kurt Dunder is a world-famous adventurer and scientist, and we follow his exploits around the world with his friend Bill Milton and the domesticized chimpanzee Attila in pursuit of truth and justice. The first story was a serialized in a magazine and
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Eks Libris is a highly satirical strip focusing on the literary scene of
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and art by Frank Madsen. In 1996, Frank Madsen was the first comics artist in
Denmark to publish his comic on the World Wide Web, putting up Kurt Dunder’s Living Room as a highly interactive site. In 2009 "Kurt Dunder in Africa" was the first Danish comic to be sold through Nokia's Ovi Portal.
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in 1991 "Kurt Dunder in Africa" (Kurt Dunder i Afrika) was published by
Carlsen Comics as a 48-page comic in color, which sold 8.000 copies. "Kurt Dunder in Greenland" (Kurt Dunder på Grønland) was serialized in the Danish tabloid
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Association of Danish Comics Creators, "Danske Tegneserieskabere" and during 1988-2010 he published the comics magazines Serieskaberen and Seriejournalen (from 1995 on only on the web).
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May 2003. This story was drawn in a different style and was entirely in black and white. Two minor stories with Kurt Dunder exist: "The Moon-struck Mummy" with story by
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