Marian Walentynowicz Explained

Marian Walentynowicz
Birth Name:	Marian Walentynowicz
Birth Date:	20 January 1896
Birth Place:	St Petersburg, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Warsaw, Poland
Nationality:	Polish
Field:	Architecture, graphic art, children's comic books, war correspondent
Training:	Warsaw Polytechnic
Works:	Koziołek Matołek

Marian Walentynowicz (born 20 January 1896 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, died 26 August 1967 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish graphic artist, architect, teacher, writer and a precursor to the comic book in Poland.

He is probably best known for his collaboration as illustrator with Kornel Makuszyński in their creation of Koziołek Matołek, a popular classic children's series about a billy goat.

Life

Walentynowicz studied Architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic. During the 1930s he taught at the Women's Architectural Academy in Warsaw . From the 1920s onwards he worked as an illustrator for various Warsaw publications. During the Second World War, he was the war correspondent attached to General Stanisław Maczek's First Panzer division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West. While with the Polish Forces, Walentynowicz stayed in London prior to the Normandy landings. The army had a quandary what to do with a Lieutenant who was a qualified architect, with insufficient knowledge of war craft. 'Make me a general', he suggested laconically and promptly was turned into a journalist.^[1] His war memoirs were published as, War without pathos in 1969.

Graphic legacy

He designed the emblem of the Independent Polish Parachute Brigade as well as the awards for the Brigade's heroes.He was a prolific book illustrator. Among his jacket designs was the wartime edition of Józef Kisielewski's, The Earth Gathers Dust. His children's book illustrations include:

With Kornel Makuszyński:

• 1933 Koziołek Matołek (120 adventures of Koziołek Matołek), on account of the 120 drawings, each with a caption in a quatrain.

With other authors:

• , a comic book with text by Ryszard Kiersnowski, published in 1957 by the weekly review for young people,, in a series of 49 whole page comic strips.
• , 1956, The Adventures of Professor Ladybird

Some of the stories have been turned into well loved TV and feature film animations.^[2]

Literary output

Aside from his collaborations with other authors, Marian Walentynowicz also published his own work:

• , stories published in the review
• 1969, war reminiscences

See also

• Pacanów
• List of Polish people
• The Adventures of Tintin

Bibliography

With Kornel Makuszyński:

• 1933 Koziołka Matołka (120 adventures of Koziołek Matołek) on account of the 120 drawings, each with a caption in a quatrain.
• 1933, The Second Book of Koziołek Matołek's Adventures
• 1934, The Third Book of Koziołek Matołek's Adventures
• 1934, The Fourth Book of Koziołek Matołek's Adventures
• 1935, Rows and japes of the little monkey, Fiki-Miki
• 1936, More Fiki-Miki Adventures, all readers laugh
• 1937, About the Wawel Dragon
• 1938, Wanda lies in our earth
• 1938, No Use Crying and Screaming, this is the End of Fiki-Miki's Adventures
• 1960 (Collected edition, Legends of Kraków, about the Wawel Dragon and Wanda)
• 1964, complete edition
• 1969, Collected edition of Koziołek Matołek's Adventures

Notes and References

1. Śledziński, Kacper. (2011) Czarna Kawaleria. Bojowy szlak pancernych Maczka. Warsaw: Otwarte.
2. Zipes, Jack, Greenhill, Pauline and Magnus-Johnston, Kendra. (2015). Fairy Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives. London: Routledge. .