I came across this during some random search engine clicking and thought it was interesting. Did any of the major comic book sites report this, or did it manage to completely fly under everyone’s radar?

It’s a unique attempt to get German youth interested in a poet who has been dead for two centuries — and it just might work. Meet Friedrich von Schiller, comic-book hero.

200 years after the death of Friedrich Schiller, the keepers of the German poet’s flame have come up with a unique way to memorialize him: a comic book.

A brainchild of the German Schiller Society in Marbach, Germany, and the Cologne-based publisher ehapa-Verlag, the comic about Schiller’s life will be published in May, on the 200th anniversary of his death.

I have to admit, I don’t know much about Schiller. The name rings a finat bell, but that’s about it. Still, after reading the rest of the article, it does seem as though he led an interesting life. Hell, the comic can’t be any more boring than most of the navel-gazing auto-biographical comics that seem to be flooding the market these days. Here’s hoping it somehow makes it’s way to the US.

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