Komicy i komiksy. Drugie życie gwiazd kina międzywojennego
Comedians and Comics: The Second Life of the Interwar Film Stars

Summary/Abstract: In the comic strips published in the Polish press of the interwar period, a distinct current was represented by humorous stories about film comedians. This article dis-cusses “cartoons” – as the press comic strips were calledat the time – devoted to Charlie Chaplin, Pat and Patachon,and comic incarnations of the cinema and cabaret starsKazimierz “Lopek” Krukowski and Adolf “Dodek” Dymsza.Most of the works discussed here emphasize Eulenspiegelqualities of the on-screen comedians, which, especially inthe case of Chaplin, was a return to his cinematic origins.There are also reminiscences of specific films in some ofthese cartoons, as well as – especially in the case of Dodek –attempts to adapt the specific language used by his char-acter. It is difficult to determine to what extent this secondlife that the stars of the screen found in the press matchedthe reception of their movies. However, it certainly en-hanced their popularity by minimizing the barriers be-tween the inaccessible cinema idols and the public, whoimaginatively transposed their adventures into the famil-iar Polish realities.

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