For people with the surname, see Plunk (surname).
Plunk is a Belgian comic series created by Luc Cromheecke and Laurent Letzer, and published by Dupuis. So far three albums have appeared.
The comics are pantomime comic/gag-a-day short stories (most often between one and four pages long) about the misadventures of Plunk, a little pink alien with green trousers and a green hat from the planet Smurk.
History Plunk was first created in the late 1980s for the Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art as a fictional example of the merchandising that can be produced with successful comic figures like The Smurfs or Peanuts.Interview with ActuaBD about the first Plunk comic In 1990, he became a character in Taco Zip, the comic strip by Cromheecke which appeared at the time in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. These comic strips were later reprinted in four albums and twenty years later in one collection.
A decade later, Plunk became the central figure in a series of very short animated movies, commissioned by VTM, the major Flemish commercial TV station. The plan abandoned before any of these shorts were ever broadcast though.Interview in Flemish cultural magazine Guido
In 2007, Plunk was again revived, this time to get his own series. The Plunk stories are prepublished in Spirou magazine (French language), in Gazet van Antwerpen and Het Belang van Limburg (Dutch language), and sometimes on the Plunk-blog maintained by Cromheecke.
The first two albums of Plunk were nominated at the Stripschapprizes (the major comics awards in the Netherlands) for the Award for Best Dutch Language Youth Comic in 2007Stripschap 2007 nominations and 2008.Expovisie list of 2008 nominees
Since 2008, Plunk is the mascotte of the award for the best Dutch language short comic story, the Plastieken Plunk, awarded by the comics magazines Plots and Pulp Deluxe. From 2004 until 2007 this award was given by Pulp Deluxe alone, but it was renamed after Plots joined.
Plastieken Plunk winners 2004: Steven Dupré 2005: Brecht Evens 2006: Filip Strubbe and Ivan Claeys 2007: Kristof Spaey and Steven Dupré 2008: Pinda 2009: Brecht Evens 2010: Erwin Kho 2011: Frederik Van Den Stock 2012: Martijn Van Santen 2013: Leslie Saurus 2014: Thijs Desmet 2015: Jan van Doornspeek 2016: Jonas Sysmans
Plastieken Plunk audience award 2008: Swahili and Peter Moerenhout 2009: Pieter Rosseel and Peter Moerenhout 2010: Bartosz Sztybor and others 2011: Merel Cremers 2012: Mathias van den Berge en Bram Vaassen 2013: Jeroen Funke 2014: Bram Algoed 2015: Floris De Smedt 2016: Dennis Marien
Notes
External links The Plunk Blog, mainly in English Example of a Plunk comic, at the Dupuis website Interview with the StripSpeciaalZaak website Plastieken Plunk