There he met the actress Olga Schoberová and featured her as a model of his comic character "sexy Jessie", who became one of his best known characters. He became a technical writer and in 1950s worked as a scene-shifter at the Barrandov Film Studios. After the war, as the Communists dominated government and society behind the Iron Curtain, enforced by the Soviet Union, Saudek was also influenced by American artists Robert Crumb and Richard Corben. He was first inspired mainly by the works of Walt Disney.
Saudek had become familiar with American comics in his early years. Kája Saudek in his atelier in the mid-1980s. Many of their Jewish family members died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where their father was deported in February 1945, but both brothers and their father survived. Kája and his brother Jan were imprisoned with other Mischlinge (mixed-blood) children in the Nazi concentration camp Luža in Poland. After the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II, the family was subject to the racial persecution by the Nazis. Both of their families originated in Bohemia Gustav was born in Děčín.
Karel and Jan Saudek were born in Prague in 1935, twin sons of Gustav Saudek, who was Jewish, and his Czech wife. His twin brother Jan Saudek is an internationally known photographer and painter. He has been called the "King of Czech comic books".
He was considered one of the best artists of Czech comics. Kája Saudek (born Karel Saudek – 26 June 2015) was a Czech comics illustrator and graphic artist.
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