Wow. I grew up in 1970s #Indonesia reading Bobo, a magazine for kindergarteners and elementary kids. It was a magazine published by Gramedia, an Indonesian publisher, and featured the adventures of a blue bunny named Bobo and his extended family, as well as a collection of recurring characters like a pink elephant (Bona) and her cat friend (Rong Rong), and other articles.
#TodayILearned that Indonesian Bobo was likely translated from an English magazine called Bobo Bunny, featuring the same cast of characters (the pink elephant is Pinky Puff, and the cat is Purr). That magazine, in turn, was translated from a Dutch magazine called Bobo, which was founded by an Italian cartoonist, Sergio Cavina, who created the blue bunny in 1968 and drew every edition until 1994.
Anyway, Bobo lives on to this day on https://bobo.grid.id, though he looks way more modern.
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