Rolf Kauka (9 April 1917 in Markranstädt, Saxony – 13 September 2000 in Thomasville, Georgia) was a German comic artist, most famous for the series Fix and Foxi.
[1] Some characters received Germanized names, for instance, Spirou & Fantasio / Pit & Pikkolo, Gaston Lagaffe / Jojo, etc.
Kauka's translation of Asterix, called Siggi und Barbarras, controversially included far-right and Nazi revisionist subtexts, such as Anti-Americanism, Anti-Communism and Holocaust denial.
In 1975, he founded the Kauka Comic Academy in Munich, where he concentrated on the training and continuing education of young writers and illustrators.
Kauka characters/series outside the Fuxholzen (Fix und Foxi) universe: Rolf Kauka also directed the animated film Maria d'Oro und Bello Blue, which contains characters created by him.