'Laatsch und Bommel'.
Ferdinand Barlog was a German caricaturist, illustrator, and one of the early comic artists. He studied art in Berlin. He was a prisoner of War in Russia during World War I. Back in civil life after World War II, he began a collaboration with the publishing house Ullstein. He also worked for the magazines Uhu and Der Heiterere Fridolin.
'Professor Pechmann'.
In Der Heitere Fridolin, Barlog illustrated 'Laatsch und Bommel' and 'Professor Pechmann', series also drawn by Paul Simmel. Die Berliner Illustrierte published Barlog's comic 'Die Fünf Schreckensteiner' from 1939 to 1940, in which Barlog tells the adventures of five ghosts haunting an old castle. A popular book collection followed in 1940.
After World War II, Barlog didn't succeed to maintain his pre-war popularity. He published the pantomime comic 'Pascha Bumsti' in Illustrierte Quick (1950), before emigrating to the USA in 1953. He passed away two years later.
Comic strip by Ferdinand Barlog.
Illustrated page about Der Heitere Fridolin
(in German)