In 1969, the first JANCZYK & KARNICKI comic appeared in TOO MUCH FAR OUT ROCK n’ROLL magazine. Created by artists Robert McNab, Rory Fellowes and George Trapp, this magazine is now recognized as the UK’s first independent underground comic book. Along with the J&K All Stars Studio group, Robert McNab and George Trapp developed the JANCZYK & KARNICKI comic. The current exhibition displays some of their work from 1968 to the present.
The exhibition “The World of J&K” presents a wide range of products from the archives of the Polish Merchant Navy well-established in JANCZYK & KARNICKI SAFounded in the port of Danzig, present-day Gdansk. The company’s motto is: “All that glitters is not gold, but we can get rid of it.” The company specializes in repackaging, brand camouflage, repeat products, and the trade in recyclable iron filings, canned flies, denatured fishmeal by-products, and eavesdropping oil: custom merchandise made from waste.
This is the premiere public display of a wide range of J&K brands, merchandise, memorabilia and documents. The exhibition was made possible by J & K Company Archivists in Danzig in collaboration with curators George Trapp and Robert McNab. Animations, books, paintings, sculptures, photography, films and a rare preserved copy of the first JANCZYK & KARNICKI comic are featured.
The J&K Scientist reveals the history of J&K’s steamboat, SS RANGOON, its captain Pawel Janczyk, business partner Edouard Karnicki and their crew. It shows in different episodes the places where the ship has sailed in the world and is still sailing: from Tierra del Fuego to the Suez Canal, and from the Baltic Sea to the tropics. The SS RANGOON and its crew first sailed in the 1930s, and while giant container ships now have changed life at sea, the old RANGOON continues to operate.
Janczyk & Karnicki Co.
The exhibition THE WORLD OF J & K presents a selection of selection items from the archives of the Polish shipping trading company JANCZYK & KARNICKI SA in the Baltic port of Danzig, present-day Gdansk.
