'''''Ferda Mravenec''''' (means "FerdaFerdinand the Ant", translated as Ferdy/Ferdi outside of the Czech Republic and Slovakia) is a Czech literary and comics character, an [[anthropomorphic]] [[ant]] created by [[Ondřej Sekora]], who both wrote and illustrated the stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://respekt.ihned.cz/c1-38195800-there-goes-the-neighbourhood|title=There Goes the Neighbourhood|last=Cílek|first=Václav|authorlink=Václav Cílek|date=1 September 2009|publisher=[[Respekt]]|accessdate=2 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://britishwhybrary.org/ondrej-sekora/|title=Ondřej Sekora|last=Lochhead|first=Guy|date=6 December 2010|publisher=The British Whybrary|accessdate=2 May 2014}}</ref> It was first published in 1933 in the ''[[Lidové noviny]]'' ''(folk's news)'' newspaper.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://relax.lidovky.cz/ferda-mravenec-je-80-let-od-sveho-vzniku-stale-popularni-pge-/zajimavosti.aspx?c=A130101_143912_ln-zajimavosti_ape|title=Před 80 lety se narodil Ferda Mravenec. Na stránkach LN|date=1 January 2013|work=[[Lidové noviny]]|publisher=lidovky.cz|language=Czech|accessdate=2 May 2014}}</ref> The character appeared in many Czech children books.
The biggest book about Ferda is ''Knížka Ferdy Mravence'' ''(book of FerdaFerdinand the Ant)'', which unites three previous books: ''Ferda Mravenec (1936)'', ''Ferda Mravenec v cizích službách (1937, FerdaFerdinand the Ant in foreign services)'' and ''Ferda v mraveništi (1938, FerdaFerdinand in the anthill)''. Many smaller books about Ferda were published along with an [[Ferdy the Ant (TV series)|animated TV series]] which premiered in 1984.
