Sigmund (comics)
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Doctor Sigmund is a Dutch
comics
character created by Peter de Wit for daily newspaper
De Volkskrant, one of the last broadsheets in the Netherlands. His name derives from Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund first appeared in 1992, two years before his actual debut, in an educational series about the art of drawing comic strips. De Wit (assisted by longtime collaborator Hanco Kolk) dedicated one episode to short gag-strips varying from two frames to one page and revealed that he had designed a US-influenced newspaper comic under the working title Mensch, durf te leeven (ancient Dutch for Life, be in it). Sigmund is a cynical, one eyed psychiatrist
; his patients hate him, but he doesn't seem to care about that.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
character created by Peter de Wit for daily newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
De Volkskrant, one of the last broadsheets in the Netherlands. His name derives from Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
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Sigmund first appeared in 1992, two years before his actual debut, in an educational series about the art of drawing comic strips. De Wit (assisted by longtime collaborator Hanco Kolk) dedicated one episode to short gag-strips varying from two frames to one page and revealed that he had designed a US-influenced newspaper comic under the working title Mensch, durf te leeven (ancient Dutch for Life, be in it). Sigmund is a cynical, one eyed psychiatrist
Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
; his patients hate him, but he doesn't seem to care about that.