Flying sheets was the name of a humoristic, richly illustrated German weekly revue. The flying sheets appeared from 1844 to 1944 in Munich with the publishing house brown & cutters.

Kaspar brown showed up particularly responsible for the illustrations, while Friedrich cutter worried particularly about the texts. Beside caricatures poems and stories in the flying sheets were published.

The individual numbers consisted of eight each, long time undated, sides and appeared in a weekly Tournus.

The flying sheets for their goal-safe, sow-Irish characterisation of the German middle class experienced general appreciation. Popular series figures from the magazine were since 1845 the two types conventional man and Bummelmaier (from their names the term conventional Meier developed). Besides there were the adventures fictitious baron Eisele and its yard master of Dr. Beisele to read for example.

The illustrations in the flying sheets came from considerable artists such as William shrubs, Gustav Adolf Closs, Hans's buyer, Adolf of upper countries, Franz count von Pocci, Carl pointed way, u.v.m.

See also: Kladderadatsch, Simplicissimus

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