Merry Pictures
Merry Pictures (Russian: Весёлые картинки, romanized: Vesyolye Kartinki) is a Russian children's illustrated humorous magazine established in the Soviet Union in 1956. Its target audience is children of ages 4-11.[1] It had the largest circulation among the children's publications in the Soviet Union, reaching 9.5 million copies monthly in early 1980s.[2][3]
In publishes verses, short stories and fairy tales, as well as board games, cartoons, rebuses, puzzles, etc.
It has a group of recurring fantasy characters, the "Merry Little Folks Club": Karandash ("Pencil", and artist), Samodelkin ("Do-It-Yourself"), Buratino, Cipollino, Neznayka, Thumbelina, Petrushka, and Gurvinek (Czhech puppet Hurvínek).[3]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Aleksey Ivliev, Легендарные «Веселые картинки» отмечают 60-летие (Legendary Merry Pictures Celebrate their 60th Anniversary)
- ^ Дмитрий Данилов, Весёлое детство «Весёлых картинок», excerpt online
- ^ a b Christine Gölz, Merry Pictures of the Little Folk: The Cartoon Magazine Veselye kartinki, or What’s Left of the Socialist “Children’s World”, Fioteknos, vol. 9, 2019, pp. 138-155, doi:10.23817/filotek.9-10
External links[edit]
- Magazine website
- Весёлые картинки, covers of all issues