Wolfgang J. Fuchs

Wolfgang J. Fuchs
Wolfgang J. Fuchs at the Comicfestival München in 2019
Born(1945-09-16)16 September 1945
Unsleben, Lower Franconia, Germany
Died20 January 2020(2020-01-20) (aged 74)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Occupations
  • Nonfiction author
  • Journalist
  • Comics scholar
  • Comics artist
  • Comics translator
  • Film expert
Known forComics. Anatomie eines Massenmediums
AwardsDeutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

Wolfgang J. Fuchs (16 September 1945 – 20 January 2020) was a German nonfiction author, journalist, comics scholar, comics author, comics translator and film expert. He co-wrote the first standard work in German on comics as an art form, published in 1971. He translated comics such as Prince Valiant, Garfield, and Mom's Cancer by Brian Fies. The translated book Mutter hat Krebs was awarded the 2007 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.