Comic strip depicting Paul Vanden Boeynants, the future Minister of National Defense, and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. (L'Offensive #10, March/April 1975). The comic strip criticizes Vanden Boeynants' controversial purchase of expensive military planes, which was widely criticized at the time for being unwise and unnecessary, because of the economic crisis.
Les K. Marx Brothers was the collective pseudonym of a group of Belgian art students, who in the 1970s published comics and cartoons in the Communist magazine L'Offensive.
Life and career
Nothing is known about the identity of Les K. Marx Brothers, except that they were students at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Liège during the 1970s. It hasn't been recorded how many people were part of this collective either. The team made political cartoons and comics for L'Offensive, the monthly magazine of the Belgian Communist Youth Movement (JCB). Unsurprisingly, all comedy is Communist propaganda. The group's collective pseudonym is a pun on Karl Marx, founder of Communism, and the unrelated Jewish-American comedy group The Marx Brothers. Another comics collective with a name inspired by The Marx Brothers was the duo Chico & Zépo.