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Plauen has been home to a statue of Father and Son by German sculptor Erik Seidel since 1995: It shows the two figures emerging from a book, hand in hand. The statue was first located at
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of the turn of the century." For
Andreas C. Knigge, who devoted an entire chapter to the stories of Father and Son in his book “50 Klassiker Comics”, E.O. Plauen "created a timeless classic, behind whose popularity the fate of the artist was forgotten." For Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff, the stories of
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December 1937, when the last episode of Vater and Sohn appeared. This happened despite the fact that Ohser had, at times, been banned from the profession in a decision that later could be reversed through the initiative of the publisher, Ullstein. In return, Father and Son had to serve as
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acquired the rights to Father and Son in 1948. Through SĂĽdverlag, which remained the rights holder until
December 31, 2014, and various license partners, several book editions stories of Father and Son were distributed in the German-speaking world alone, including some published by the
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praised Father and Son as "the most popular joke figures of the century," in 1962, Eckart
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for Ohser to publish "non-political drawings under a pseudonym. This is the reason all of the cartoons are signed “e.o.p”, with the first two letters representing the author’s initials and the
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depicts a plump, balding father and his son grappling with various everyday situations. The cartoon was a weekly feature in the
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A total of 194 different Father and Son stories were published. As of
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