New on Facebook! Join the Facebook Group "We Remember 'Stationed in Germany with Fred and Frank" Cartoons.

The official website for the "Stationed in Germany with Fred and Frank" cartoons created by Charles Kaufman. From 1979-1992 Fred and Frank cartoons were read each month by nearly a million Army, Navy and Air Force personnel stationed in Europe.

I invite you to join the new Fred and Frank Facebook group, "We Remember 'Stationed in Germany with Fred and Frank' Cartoons. Please add your memories there of being stationed in Germany (and Europe) and of the Fred and Frank comics. And perhaps through this Facebook Group run across some old friend and colleagues that were stationed in Europe during the time of Fred and Frank comics! Click to visit the Fred and Frank Group page.

Who are Fred and Frank? Fred and Frank was a montly comic written and illustrated by Charles Kaufman between 1979 and 1992 about the off-duty hours of two U.S. servicemen stationed in Europe . The comic appeared monthly as a full-page, black-and-white cartoon. Fred and Frank was dreamed up in the summer of 1979 and first published in late 1979 and appeared almost monthly in a magazine first titled 'Overseas Life' and then 'Overseas!', for 13 years until 1992.

See a sampling of the Fred and Frank cartoons from the book here.

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The Book: "Stationed in Germany with Fred and Frank - The Collection of Cartoons".

In 1983 a book was published with Fred and Frank cartoons from that contained a collection of cartoons published from 1979- early 1983. The book was 100 pages long. Even though I continued to draw the cartoons until 1992, no further collection of Fred and Frank cartoons book has been published.

I still get a lot of requests to buy this book; however, when it came out it sold out quickly. I never got around to reprinting this book or bringing out a collection of all the cartoons from late 1983 until the final cartoon in 1992. See a sampling of the Fred and Frank cartoons from the book here.

The comics were about the off-duty experiences of two U.S. G.I.s stationed in Germany and experiencing life in Europe. Read each month by close to a million. At it's height in circulation nearly a million U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy plus civilian personnel and their families stationed all over Europe read "Stationed in Germany with Fred and Frank". The cartoon was one of the longest - if not the longest- running military-related cartoons ever published.

In addition to the Fred and Frank cartoons were some extra bits of humor and satire in the book:

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Barracks Rat Comics

Schweine Sisters Two of the main characters in the cartoon series were the cute Schweine Sisters. (The only women in Europe that Fred & Frank could get a date with). Fun Fred and Frank Trivia: I had to kill off the Schweine Sisters after getting a frantic call from the Editor saying that one of the adveristers in magazine was going to cancel their advertising if the Schweine Sisters appeared in any further cartoons. Apparently his wife looked very much like one of the Schweine Sisters.... :-)

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Charles Kaufman's illustrations and cartoons have been published in over 100 publications around the world. His paintings and other artwork are exhibited in galleries in Europe and the United States. Read more about Charles Kaufman here.More

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