Mikael Wulff (b. 1972), a comedian and writer, who has performed live comedy
and done TV work in Scandinavia for the past 6 years.
Anders Morgenthaler (b. 1972)
is an illustrator, graphic designer and director of animation
who also does live action filmmaking. He has completed several
short films and
music videos,
and is currently making his debut animated feature film,Princess, produced at
Zentropa,
which is located in Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Wulffmorgenthaler was started in 2001 by Mikael Wulff, Anders Morgenthaler, and Morten E. Wulff.
The comic has a very distinct
style, featuring shaky line drawings and coloring that appears to be computer-generated. Each installment is delivered
a single frame, avoiding the more traditional format of boxed divisions to signify
progress or movement in time. The characters and situations vary from strip to strip,
but there are several recurring characters, such as the Toucan Kid (a grotesque hybrid of man and 28% toucan) and
the so-called Fucked-up Crazy-Ass Weirdo Beaver (a seemingly innocent creature who consistently pulls
off unimaginably weird feats). Also of note are the characters Dick Bird (a greasy-haired
entrepreneur
whose product-for-sale changes from strip to strip), Werner (the hapless yet happy
antihero) and
most recent a voyuer whose new neighbours wife and daughter are so hot that "he
simply has to masturbate" which he tells his neighbour with sure degree of pride.
Recurring characters in Wulffmorgenthaler tend to be more of a running joke than a legitimate continuing narrative.
For quite a while, humans portrayed in the comic wore no clothes: according to the
comic's website, Morgenthaler "was fed up with the tiresome meticulousness of drawing
clothes on people so he just stopped doing it." Sometimes, when the situation called
for a specific outfit to denote a specific role, humans would appear clothed. Lately
characters have all started to appear fully clothed.
Content ranges from sideways political statements to complete non-sequitur, and relies on both intelligent
humor and
bathroom humor, as well as an abundance of blood, sexual references and
grotesque imagery, to get its point across. Reading Wulffmorgenthaler is
often an exercise of the imagination, as it has a habit of juxtaposing supremely
ordinary characters in supremely unusual situations, or vice versa. "Punchlines" are delivered by way of dialogue or with one-liners
written in a caption below the image. Because the comic is drawn in a non-serial
format, delivery and timing are especially important (and difficult to maneuver),
and as a result most of the humor in Wulffmorgenthaler relies on the quality
of the writing itself rather than the element of surprise that usually lends itself
to the traditional comic-strip punchline. No subject is taboo in the world of Wulffmorgenthaler,
with recent topics including the
Pope, illegitimate sex, and the consumption of aborted
fetuses for dinner.
Wulffmorgenthaler also released a television series, in the style of a typical show
for children, in Denmark, where Wulff, Morgenthaler and their pantomime friends Dolph, a Fascist
hippo and Margit, a politically correct female squirrel, introduce various short
movies. The only recurring character from the comic is the Toucan Kid. New characters
include Ansgar and Loke, a very sexually active archeologist and his colleague who
is deadly afraid of "the Vagina", the contestants on a fifties gameshow, a "Realityshow"
starring a hapless schoolphotographer, Bent, and his retarded assistant Bubber,
the brothers Lefevre, who are carpetsalesmen trying to be actors, Asger Lesniak
who has a personal vendetta against a guy who frequents the places he works, and
Bimmer, a character obsessed with life in the tropic nether regions.
The TV-series evolved into season II called "Dolph og Wulff", now in a documentary
style, with The Fascist Hippo
Dolph as the dominating main character.
And the second seacon evolved to a 3rd season, this time in the style of a late
night talkshow, on March 17th called "Dolph og Wulff - med venner" (Dolph and Wulff
- with friends). The friends are a sex-crazed beaver named Rocko and an orangutang
called "Flemming". Rocko was actually created as a sex-crazed squirrel for the first
season, but it was ultimately decided to not use him, so the Rocko puppet was used
as Margit instead.
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