Sascha Hommer Online

Sticker

2011-11-12T16:58:00.000Z

... for Modern Graphics.

"Mitarbeiter des Jahres 2006 - 2010"

2011-11-10T10:04:00.000Z

For this exhibition.

Works for Chengdoo Citylife, part 2

2011-11-09T15:45:00.000Z

Board game design for issue 49 of Chengdoo Citylife: game will be released November 12th.

If you happen to be in Chengdu, go see this.
Here are some character tokens (refering to Sichuanese Opera):

And some cockroach tokens:

Works for Chengdoo Citylife

2011-10-29T09:47:00.000+01:00

For Chengdoo Citylife, a culture and events magazine from Chengdu, China, I did some illustrations (issues 46, 47 and 48). You can download all issues of Chengdoo Citylife here.

Postcard for M39

2011-10-28T09:59:00.000+01:00

Link to the fashion label: M39.

Sixth edition of graphic novel flyer

2011-10-27T10:03:00.000+01:00

You can download the entire flyer here.

"Kampfkolosse" and "Trainingscamps"

2011-10-26T14:38:00.002+01:00

For the independent publication "Kampfkolosse", edited by Till Thomas, I did a character design. The release exhibtion of "Kampfkolosse" featured works of some participants, I pictured camps in which insectoid fighter can train their skills.

Poster for "Tolle Galerie", Munich

2011-05-16T19:58:00.000+01:00

Link to the gallery

Dri Chinisin

2011-02-26T08:54:00.001Z

I was a bit lazy with new posts recently, here is the reason why: a new book is going to be published at the Leipzig Book Fair!
The book is a collection of literary adaptations. Author of the six short stories I adapted is the multi-award-winning German writer Brigitte Kronauer.

The first pages of the book:

Dri Chinisin
Nach Erzählungen von Brigitte Kronauer
Reprodukt, Berlin 2011
ISBN 978-3-941099-73-9
80 pages, EUR 14

New ORANG issue, new ORANG website

2011-02-16T23:58:00.000Z

Have a look at our new website, designed by Arne Bellstorf. You can buy the new ORANG issue here.

Polish/German Comic anthology published by Kultura Gniewu

2011-02-15T22:28:00.001Z

This bilingual anthology contains new adventures of the notorious rabbit W. Kaninchen.
Please have a look at the Kultura Gniewu website.

Pictoplasma PicTarot App

2010-12-09T10:57:00.000Z

Link: PicTarot

New graphic novel flyer

2010-12-01T12:41:00.002Z

I did the cover design. Link to pdf: http://downloa...

One page for OPAK#07

2010-11-21T19:55:00.000Z

Link: OPAK

Postcard for M39

2010-11-20T22:39:00.002Z

Link: M39

Poster for Comfor

2010-11-19T22:28:00.002Z

Link: ComFor

"Vier Augen" in Poland: "W cztery oczy"

2010-10-04T22:36:00.001+01:00

The very good polish publisher Kultura Gniewu recently published my graphic novel "Vier Augen". You can see samples of the polish version here. I am very proud to have my book with Kultura Gniewu. They also published "Insekt" in 2007 and already sold the first edition.

Fantoche illustration

2010-09-16T09:49:00.000+01:00

Every year, the program of international animation film festival Fantoche contains illustrations for sponsors. I did one of them for this year's issue. Some of the illustrations are adapted to animated shorts, and Manuela Weiss was in charge to do so in my case. You can see the shorts here and here.

Advertisement for Strapazin 100

2010-09-01T18:40:00.001+01:00

For issue number 100(!) of swiss independent comic magazine Strapazin I did this advertisement page.

Illustration for Frankfurter Rundschau

2010-08-31T09:14:00.004+01:00

I did this illustration for a special supplement of german newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau (today's issue).

One page for OPAK

2010-08-08T19:58:00.000+01:00

I did one comic page for the issue #06 of Hamburg/Berlin-based independent magazine OPAK.

Goethe-Institut exhibition is starting to tour around the world in early August

2010-07-31T22:07:00.002+01:00

The Goethe-Institut initialized a travelling exhibition called “Comics, Manga & Co. – Germany’s New Comic Culture”(including me and fellow artists Arne Bellstorf, Martin tom Dieck, Anke Feuchtenberger, Flix, Jens Harder, Line Hoven, Ulf K., Reinhard Kleist, Isabel Kreitz, Mawil, Christina Plaka and Henning Wagenbreth), that will travel all over the place. For more information you may follow this link.

Postcard and Sticker for M39

2010-07-07T14:51:00.005+01:00

I did one postcard and one sticker for the fashion label M39.

Two pages for Internazionale

2010-06-26T12:01:00.002+01:00

For number 851 of the italian periodical Internazionale I created two pages of graphic reportage about the swiss city Basel. For this purpose I adapted an excerpt from "Flametti", a novel written by famous Dada founder Hugo Ball.

W. Kaninchen in new issue of Kultur & Gespenster

2010-06-21T16:30:00.000+01:00

You can find a short black and white excerpt of "Im Museum 2 - Archive des Zerfalls" in the new issue of Kultur & Gespenster. I also did a Humpty Dumpty-sticker for the magazine.

Graphic Novel Flyer: new edition

2010-05-25T18:53:00.004+01:00

This is the fourth edition of the Graphic Novel flyer. I do the covers.
This product seems to be quite a success! Thanks to Sebastian Oehler of Reprodukt, who started the whole thing. You can download the flyer here.

One page for OPAK

2010-05-20T16:38:00.004+01:00

I did one comic page for the issue #05 of Hamburg/Berlin-based independent magazine OPAK.

Index scholarship

2010-05-16T17:53:00.002+01:00

Yesterday I moved into a 12m² attic loft which is part of the "Index - Wort und Wirkung" scholarship.
The room is next to the main buildings of the University of Zurich. Index is a group of writers and artists. Besides organizing readings, concerts and other cultural events like movie screenings (see photo), they started to provide this scholarship.

Flyer for Strapazin

2010-04-22T19:03:00.005+01:00

I did this flyer for a special Strapazin evening in Luzern during the Fumetto International Comixfestival (click to enlarge).

05 May: STRAPAZIN-SOIRÉE
6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Kornschütte Luzern,
CH - 6004 Luzern

Why are we friends?

2010-04-20T15:42:00.002+01:00

"Warum sind wir Freunde?" - "Why are we friends?"
This exhibition I designed together with Kati Rickenbach has its opening in Luzern (Switzerland): starting tomorrow, the restaurant Storchen will show our work during the Fumetto International Comixfestival, and even longer.

21 April - 31 May: Warum sind wir Freunde?
Kati Rickenbach und Sascha Hommer
Storchen Café & Bar
Kornmarkt 9
CH-6004 Luzern

Heroes, Freaks, and Super-Rabbis

2010-04-17T21:05:00.007+01:00

W. Kaninchen, famous character of our books "Im Museum" and "Im Museum 2", now appears on the website of the Jewish Museum Berlin. For the upcoming exhibition "Heroes, Freaks, and Super-Rabbis" we did a special online feature (for the english version follow this link). Us, that's Jan-Frederik Bandel (scenario), Peter Bäder (flash programming) and me (drawings).The exhibition features veterans of the medium such as Rube Goldberg, Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman along with contemporary artists such as Art Spiegelman, Rutu Modan, Joann Sfar and Ben Katchor by numerous original drawings, sketches, and comic books.

Heroes, Freaks, and Super-Rabbis
30 April — 8 August 2010
Jewish Museum Berlin, Old Building, Level 1

"Im Museum 2 - Archive des Zerfalls" in Hamburg

2010-04-04T23:12:00.000+01:00

On Wednesday, 14th April, the magazine Kultur&Gespenster will celebrate the release of its 10th issue in Hamburg. Part of the schedule is a play reading with Daniel Lommatzsch and Mirco Kreibich, featuring excerpts of "Im Museum 2 - Archive des Zerfalls".

April 14th, 8 p.m.
Zentrale, Thalia Theater
Raboisen 67
20095 Hamburg

"Vier Augen" in Spain: "Cuatro Ojos"

2010-03-31T11:29:00.008+01:00

The very good spanish publisher Sins Entido recently published my graphic novel "Vier Augen". You can see the spanish version here. I am very proud to have my book with Sins Entido. They also published "Insekt".

W. Kaninchen meets Hubert Fichte

2010-03-23T12:05:00.011Z

W. Kaninchen, famous writer and main character of our book "Im Museum 2 - Archive des Zerfalls", appears in an anthology that deals with the late works of outstanding German novelist Hubert Fichte. Together with Jan-Frederik Bandel I created a short story about the historically unplausible but true meeting of Kaninchen and Fichte in Hamburg (you can see the first page here, click to enlarge). Some other authors collected in the book: Brigitte Kronauer, Thomas Meinecke, Daniel Richter, Wolf Wondratschek, and many more...

19 EMPFINDLICHKEITEN - REAKTIONEN AUF HUBERT FICHTE
Edited by Mario Fuhse
Männerschwarm, Hamburg 2010
ISBN: 978-3-939542-90-2
248 pages, EUR 19,90

"Im Museum" - Second and final book released

2010-03-16T12:03:00.006Z

Finally the second collection of our daily strips is published! If you happen to be at the Leipzig book fair, you might come along to say hello and see the book! Check this out:

Leipzig book fair
Book presentation "Im Museum 2: Archive des Zerfalls" with Dr. Ole Frahm, Dr. Jan-Frederik Bandel & Sascha Hommer
Friday, march 19th, 15.30-16.00 p.m.
You'll find our publisher Reprodukt, and the new book, in hall 5, at booth E204.

Im Museum 2: Archive des Zerfalls
Reprodukt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941099-40-1
128 pages in colour, 18,00 Euro
The book contains an afterword by Prof. Dr. Ursula Panhans-Bühler.

For more information about the project you may follow this link.

En route 03: Russia, France, Switzerland

2010-03-15T12:05:00.010Z

In december I went to Saint Petersburg again to help with the opening of the new German librabry. End of January, I travelled to Angouleme (France), to sell comics at the biggest european comicfestival in Angoulême along with Martina Lenzin(see picture) and Marlene Krause of Two Fast Colour. Now I take a rest in the cultural heart of Europe: Zurich, Switzerland.

Exhibition in Düsseldorf

2010-01-13T20:59:00.002Z

On January 17th is the opening of an exhibition in the Kulturbahnhof Eller, showing comics from Hamburg. Besides some of my comics, the show also contains works of Arne Bellstorf, Martin tom Dieck, Anke Feuchtenberger, Line Hoven and Judith Mall.

January 17th - February 21st
Neue Comics, Graphic Novels und Bildergeschichten aus Hamburg
Freundeskreis Kulturbahnhof Eller e.V.
Vennhauser Allee 89, D-40229 Düsseldorf

Graphic Novel-flyer reprint (3rd edition)

2010-01-06T19:40:00.005Z

Here comes the third edition of our flyer about graphic novels, with a brandnew cover. The flyer contains information about graphic novels published by Reprodukt, Carlsen, Edition Moderne, Cross Cult, Edition 52, Avant Verlag, S. Fischer Verlage, Panini, Schreiber und Leser and Splitter. You can download it here.

Exhibition photos

2009-12-20T15:51:00.000Z

I did this exhibition in the small gallery Trottoir in Hamburg recently. Here are two pictures of the hanging (click to enlarge). The wallpainting was done by Max Frisinger for an earlier exhibtion. I simply put the pages of my book "Vier Augen" on it and added deceptive notes.

En route 02: Finland and Austria

2009-11-23T20:33:00.000Z

The Goethe Insitute in Helsinki and the Sarjakuvakeskus Comics Center invited us to come to Helsinki for a small ORANG exhibition in late october. We had the pleasure to stay in a beautiful residence nearby the Comics Center. As you can see, there were three of us: Line Hoven, Verena Braun and me. At Sarjakuvakeskus Comics Center, we held a workshop with mainly professional participants.
One month later, I travelled to Vienna to visit the young Austrian book fair Buch Wien. Along with fellow artist Mawil, I gave a lecture in the beautiful bar phil.

One postcard, one sticker for M39

2009-11-07T10:00:00.000Z

I did this for the fashion label M39.

Comicrelease

2009-10-14T23:25:00.000+01:00

Very soon I will celebrate the release of my new book "Vier Augen" in Hamburg.

06.11.09, 8 p.m.
"Vier Augen" Comic-Releaseparty
Trottoir
Hamburger Hochstrasse 24
20359 Hamburg

En route 01: Switzerland and Russia

2009-10-06T17:01:00.000+01:00

I recently started to travel about. Here are some impressions of the destinations.
First I went to Switzerland to be part of the beautiful animation festival Fantoche in Baden. Unfortunately I don't do animation, but Kati Rickenbach invited me to help her out with portraying the festival. From Baden we went to stay for some days in Zurich, working in the Strapazin studio. Finally we arrived at the Cartoon Museum Basel (photo above), where we accompanied a guided tour.
Next travel destination was Saint Petersburg, where we visited the small comicfestival Boomfest (second photo). Among other things, I did a lecture there about comics in Germany, along with Marlene Krause, co-founder of the comic anthology Two Fast Colour (photo below).

Have a look...

2009-09-23T15:33:00.000+01:00

Together with Kati Rickenbach I edited the new issue of Strapazin.
I also did the dinosaur image below, as far as I know it is shown as advertisement in cinemas. Our Strapazin contains works of Moki (she did the cover you can see here, but also illustrations inside the issue), Émile Bravo, Ignacio García Sánchez, David Heatley, Félix Díaz, Nikol, Peng Peng, Olivier Schrauwen, Anete Melece and Haina.

Coming soon

2009-09-01T22:34:00.000+01:00

My new book "Vier Augen" will be released in october, at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
You'll find my publisher Reprodukt, and the book, at booth 3.0 J829.

Vier Augen
Reprodukt, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938511-59-6
124 pages black/white, 13,00 Euro

Frankfurt Book Fair
14. - 18. October
Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

W. Kaninchen in Erlangen

2009-08-15T11:15:00.000+01:00

The famous author W. Kaninchen is going to read extracts of his autobiography at the Poetenfest in Erlangen in late August.

Samstag, August 29th, 10 p.m.
Den Rahmen sprengen - Die Reprodukt-Verlagsnacht
Glocken-Lichtspiele
Hauptstraße 46, 91054 Erlangen

Exhibition in Pamplona

2009-08-13T19:09:00.000+01:00

Today is the opening of an exhibition in Pamplona, curated by Roger Omar. Omar runs an interesting project about illustrated dreams. Here is another dream link . I did these two characters for the exhibition.

Cover for SuKuLTuR

2009-07-23T18:45:00.000+01:00

I did this cover illustration.

Jochen Schimmang: Altes Gelände
SuKuLTuR 2009, ISBN 978-3-941592-04-9

Comic radio

2009-07-18T22:53:00.000+01:00

We started to do a radio show at the independent radio station FSK. We are planning to do six shows a year. Of course the show is in German, so in case you don't understand German it's useless to listen to it. Anyway, you can download the content here: http://comickabinett.blogspot.com.

Work in progress 11: The last chapter

2009-07-17T20:06:00.000+01:00

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
I am working on the last chapter now. Book will be released in october.

Exhibition in Yerevan

2009-06-03T17:23:00.000+01:00

Starting 5th of june, there will be an exhibition about contemporary german newspaper strips at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Yerevan, including "Archetyp" by Ralf König, "Strizz" by Volker Reiche, and "Im Museum", the daily strip I still design together with Jan-Frederik Bandel.

Graphic novels in Frankfurt

2009-05-30T11:58:00.000+01:00

From 27th of Mai to 23th of June, the Hugendubel store in Frankfurt is presenting a substantial selection of graphic novels. June 6th, Mawil, Flix, Ulrich Scheel and me will be there to present our works and answer questions.

June 6th, 14.30
Graphic novels signing and discussion
Buchhandlung Hugendubel, Steinweg 12, D-60313 Frankfurt am Main

Work in progress 10: Strange happenings

2009-05-04T20:09:00.000+01:00

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
In chapter three, very strange things happen. I don't want to explain at this point of the process.

ORANG#08 comes in june

2009-05-04T04:00:00.000+01:00

We put together the new issue of ORANG recently. The book will be published in midth-june. Part of the new collection, along with works of Arne Bellstorf(he did the cover), Anouk Ricard, Moki, Klaas Neumann, Ancco, Nadine Gerber, Verena Braun, Line Hoven, Till Thomas, Yan Cong, KAGO Shintaro and Marijpol, is a sci-fi story I did. Here you can see two pages out of four. You can order the book here.

ORANG#08
Reprodukt, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941099-23-4
120 pages, 16 in colour, 15,00 Eur

Advertisement for FSK Radio

2009-04-28T13:13:00.000+01:00

For the independent radio station FSK I did this advertisement.

Exhibition in Basel

2009-04-27T08:27:00.000+01:00

Tomorrow is the vernissage of an exhibition in the Cartoonmuseum Basel, showing works of several cartoonists, comic artists and fine artists, including some stuff of me and Kati Rickenbach (you can see her on the left, working on a picture for the Cartoonmuseum).

Cartoonmuseum Basel
"Erotik" - 29.04. - 27.09.2009
Vernissage 28.04., 18 Uhr

One postcard & one sticker for M39

2009-04-26T13:22:00.000+01:00

I did this for the fashion label M39.

Work in progress 09: Haircut

2009-03-17T22:22:00.000Z

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
I feel a little embarassed about this, but in chapter two of the book, the main character gets a new haircut.

"Von Hühnern und Kaninchen" - Vattenfall Lesetage

2009-03-15T10:03:00.000Z

At the literature festival "Vattenfall Lesetage" in Hamburg, Peter Gaymann and me will have a conversation with moderator Andreas Platthaus at the Museum für Kommunikation. I guess we will talk about our work(??). But I don't know...

April 21, 19:00
Von Hühnern und Kaninchen
Museum für Kommunikation
Gorch-Fock-Wall 1
20354 Hamburg

Graphic Novel-flyer reprint

2009-03-05T14:45:00.000Z

Here comes the second edition of our flyer about graphic novels, with a brandnew cover. The flyer contains information about graphic novels published by Reprodukt, Carlsen, Edition Moderne, Cross Cult, Edition 52 and Avant Verlag. You can download it here.

German artists in Bastia

2009-03-05T14:16:00.000Z

Beginning of April, some german artists will visit the small comic festival in Bastia. Matthias Schneider organized an exhibition containing works of ATAK, Arne Bellstorf, Anke Feuchtenberger, Armin Abmeier, Line Hoven and me.

April 02.-05.
BD à Bastia 2009
Arcades du Théâtre, rue César Campinchi
F-20200 Bastia

Work in progress 08: Point of no return

2009-02-19T23:43:00.000Z

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
Here is one new page of the book. As you can see, the guys talk a lot in this scene (they say stupid things about philosophy, not interesting at all, but necessary to learn about how they think).After having a lot of troublesome time with the work on this graphic novel, during the last two weeks I somehow reached a point where the work became more fluently. I was always uncertain about the look of the characters and had little time to concentrate for a longer period than a couple of days to solve this problem. I don't know why, but apparently the doubts and bad feelings disappeared. So the only thing I have to do now is to draw the 60 missing pages, hooray!

W. Kaninchen: Reading at the bookfair in Leipzig

2009-02-18T23:14:00.000Z

Our dear friend W. Kaninchen will read a part of his autobiography at the bookfair in Leipzig. Excerpts of his thrilling memories have been published in our daily newspaper strip "Im Museum". W. Kaninchen will be introduced by literature expert Dr. Jan-Frederik Bandel.

March 12th, 12:30 to 13:00
W. Kaninchen liest aus "Im Museum" von Jan-Frederik Bandel und Sascha Hommer
Leseinsel Junger Verlage, Hall 5, Booth E200

Sticker, sticker, sticker

2009-02-08T17:07:00.000Z

Here is another advertisement sticker I did for Strapazin. Okay, I should stop to do this and go back to work on "Vier Augen".

Work in progress 07: Funny experiences

2009-02-05T11:13:00.000Z

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
Now the funny part of the work on my book begins: I have to visualize LSD experiences.

Postcard and sticker

2009-02-03T01:13:00.000Z

This is what I recently did for Strapazin. One postcard and one advertisement sticker.

Work in progress 06: Summer

2009-01-15T22:52:00.000Z

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
Here are some impressions from the beginning of chapter two.

"Im Museum" Signing and Party

2008-11-05T11:30:00.000Z

Two things: On 13th November I will do signing at the comicshop X-TRA-BOOX in Frankfurt. I will be there from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
On Friday the 21st of November we will have a comic release party in the beautiful independant gallery Hinterconti in Hamburg. Exhibition will start 8 p.m. Also the famous writer W. Kaninchen (you can see him on the picture) might follow our invitation.

13.11. X-TRA-BOOX Signing
16:00 - 18:00
X-TRA-BOOX, Berliner Strasse 20, 60311 Frankfurt
21.11. "Im Museum" Release Party
Beginning 8 p.m.
Hinterconti, Marktstrasse 40, 20357 Hamburg

Work in progress 05: First Chapter finished

2008-10-26T21:42:00.000Z

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
It took quite a while, but finally I finished chapter one of the book. Two more chapters will follow. I promise to be faster with my drawings for chapter two and three.

New book: "Im Museum"

2008-10-07T14:27:00.000+01:00

A first collection of our daily strip "Im Museum", published by Reprodukt, will be presented at the Frankfurt book fair this october. Here are four already translated episodes and also some general information about the book.
Synopsis: A girl and a boy are locked up inside a museum. As they begin to explore the rooms of the building, they realize that the museum is of tremendous size and contains very strange exhibitions, creatures and settings. The two kids get to know a prehistoric insect, Charles Manson, Ernst Jünger, Meat Loaf, Fidel Castro, Pacman and other central characters of history. In our translated episodes they meet a pixel smurf...(click on the episodes to enlarge)
The "Frankfurter Rundschau": The Frankfurter Rundschau is a national (German) newspaper, published everyday but Sunday. It is considered to be liberal. Along to their change to a smaller tabloid size in May 2007, the Rundschau also wanted to start a daily comic strip. That's why comic expert Christian Schlüter asked me to think about a concept. I asked Jan-Frederik Bandel to join the project. He agreed and so finally this thing started.
Work on the strip and concept: Since we are working for a comparatively large audience, we figured that it would be a good idea to arrange the story as cryptic as possible. Very often the "jokes" are only comprehensible if you recognize a quotation from literature, pop culture or if you use online search engines to find out about hidden meanings. Furthermore we considered illogicalness to be very funny and therefore tried to spread hints that lead to nowhere. After all, our strip is located on a page with brainteasers and similar stuff, so it also should be fair to puzzle the readers.
The contributers: The book contains a preliminary note by the German writer Brigitte Kronauer and an afterword by Frank Witzel. Jan-Frederik Bandel, who is writing the text for the strips, is a specialist in German studies.
Dates:
Friday, 17th october
12:00 "Im Museum" Signing
Frankfurt book fair, comic-centre
19:00 "Im Museum" bookrelease
Dialogmuseum, Hanauer Landstraße 137-145, Frankfurt am Main (see flyer above)
Saturday, 18th october,
12:00 "Im Museum" Signing
Frankfurt book fair, comic-centre
15:00 "Im Museum" discussion with Christian Schlüter, Sascha Hommer, Jan-Frederik Bandel
Bookfair booth of the Frankfurter Rundschau (H3.0/B157)
17:00 "Im Museum" Signing
Frankfurt book fair, comic-centre

The book:
Im Museum
Reprodukt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-941099-00-5
144 pages in colour, 18,00 Eur

Exhibition in Goeppingen

2008-10-02T11:29:00.000+01:00

The Kunsthalle Goeppingen is preparing an exhibition about the history of comics. Along with work samples of Wilhelm Busch, Rodolphe Toepffer, Gustave Doré, o.e. plauen, Max Ernst, Loriot and many more, they'll also show excerpts of my book Insekt.

12.10. - 18.01.2009 Bildergeschichten
Ort: Schloss Filseck

Two postcards

2008-09-17T23:07:00.000+01:00

I designed two postcards for the fashion label M39.

The end of "Butterbiene"

2008-09-14T13:58:00.000+01:00

My old webpage butterbiene.de will be closed in November (though I still like the stupid layout). I refused to update it for a long time now, and also hated to work with Dreamweaver. It is much more fun to run this weblog.

Insekt reprint

2008-09-11T12:40:00.000+01:00

Reprodukt is reprinting my book Insekt, because the first edition is sold out. Thanks to all the german readers!

Graphic Novels

2008-09-09T08:40:00.000+01:00

The last two weeks brought a lot of fun and problems. One of the problems was this flyer I designed for Reprodukt, Carlsen, Fischer, Edition 52 and Avant Verlag. Not only took it a long time to discuss the content with co-author Sebastian Oehler and the other parties involved - of course also the drawing took some time. Not to mention problems with the data, with the Internet, with everything. In the end, and with the friendly help of Hamburg-based comicartist Julia Gordon, we finally sent the flyer to the printery, including a bloodcurdling mistake. On the 8 pages of the flyer you will find a brief statement about the nature of "graphic novels" and some recommended graphic novels (it's not me who recommends them, it's the publishing houses I mentioned earlier). You can download the flyer here. For more (german) information about graphic novels, you might also have a look at www.graphic-novel.info.

Superheroes online

2008-07-10T23:25:00.001+01:00

I designed the superhero Verdrehmor and the superheroine Qual, die Qualle for the Bayrischer Rundfunk. Also Till Thomas did an illustration for them. You can learn more about our superheroes and download them here(information and radio feature in german, sorry).

Work in progress 04: Love and reflections

2008-06-15T19:58:00.000+01:00

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"

I am still working on chapter 01...

Work in progress 03: Schoolyard scenes

2008-05-20T23:21:00.000+01:00

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"

Strapazin #91 comes in June

2008-05-13T00:00:00.000+01:00

Together with Kati Rickenbach, I co-edited the number 91 of the famous Swiss comic periodical Strapazin. The issue contains comic stories by Line Hoven, Aleksi Jalonen, Bendik Kaltenborn/Kristoffer Kjolberg, Martina Lenzin, Ulli Lust, Gosia Machon, Klaas Neumann, Kati Rickenbach, Amanda Vähämäki, and me. Till Thomas designed the beautiful cover(a detail of the cover you can see above). The issue will be released on 10th of June, and June 17th we will have a release party in Hamburg! According to the topic of the issue, "Spielkiste" (what means "game box"), we will celebrate the release with games and playfulness.
(Plus: I did some sticker artwork for the new issue. You can see two examples here:)
17.06. Strapazin #91 Comic-Releaseparty
Astra Stube, Max-Brauer-Allee 200, 22769 Hamburg
8 p.m.

XfürU sticker

2008-05-12T22:11:00.000+01:00

I made a sticker for the comicshop XfürU, located in Freiburg (south Germany). Actually this is the region where I grew up. The XfürU is not only one of the best comicshops in Germany, but also a place that somehow helped me to understand the world of comics. Aged 17 or 18, I stepped into the store as a fan of fantasy illustrators like Jean Giraud/Moebius or Richard Corben, but with a little help from shopowner Uli Pröfrock I learned about the existence of contemporary artists like Lorenzo Mattotti, Julie Doucet and Anke Feuchtenberger.

Work in progress 02: Hashish bong

2008-05-08T10:49:00.000+01:00

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
On the first pages of the first chapter of "Vier Augen" we get to know that two of the main characters use a bucket bong (also known as "gravity bong") in order to become intoxicated. Some of you may not be familiar with this technique. Can anyone explain it in proper english?

Work in progress 01: Walking through the snow

2008-05-04T01:39:00.001+01:00

Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
While in Hamburg the summer is about to begin, I draw snowy landscapes. This is because the first chapter of the book begins with wintertime, 13 years ago, in the black forest(south Germany). I guess summer will be a topic for the second chapter.

Insekt in Spain

2008-04-13T18:20:00.000+01:00

The spanish publishing house Sins Entido published a spanish version of "Insekt". Very good! Sins Entido seems to be one of the best spanish comic publishers. Among the names of the published authors, you will find Gipi, Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Max, and many many more.

Kopfkino catalogue

2008-03-21T15:53:00.000Z

Kind of publication: Exhibition catalogue
Language: German
Published: February 2008, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin

Some weeks ago, the catalogue "Kopfkino" was published. It contains work samples of David B., Arne Bellstorf, Gipi, Dominique Goblet, Oliver Grajewski, Line Hoven, Claire Lenkova, Maja Linke/Detlef B. Linke, mawil, Rutu Modan, moki, Marjane Satrapi, Ulrich Scheel, Dirk Schwieger, Anna Sommer, Amanda Vähämäki and me.

Slow progress

2008-03-20T22:38:00.000Z

My second graphic novel "Vier Augen" was planned to be released in February 2008, but unfortunately I wasn't able to finish the book in time. To be honest, I didn't spend a lot of time on this project during the last year. I keep on saying that this is because I spent so much time working on the daily strip "At the museum", but there have been other reasons as well.
Some of these reasons happened to disappear lately, and there is progress now, though very slow progress. I finished a first version of the introduction today(some excerpts you can see here), and will go on publishing previews as soon as there is new stuff to show.

Exhibitions in Dresden, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Hamburg

2008-02-10T01:50:00.000Z

First half of this year is packed with exhibitions. Already beginning of February one big comic exhibtion opened in the Kunsthaus Dresden. The exhibition is called "Kopfkino" and features a lot of artists I like, among them my friends Mawil, Arne Bellstorf, Line Hoven, Moki, and me. The complete program you can see here.
For the book fair in Leipzig, we are planning to do a small exhibition featuring works included in the new issue of Orang. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to contribue, but for I am editing the anthology together with Arne Bellstorf it is not complete nonsense to tell you about it on my weblog. The new issue of our Hamburg-based project features german and international artists. Beginning of April, we will have another, and bigger Orang exhibition at the gallery Linda in Hamburg.
In the Literaturhaus Stuttgart, I will show some of my works related with literature, such as my adaption of Brigitte Kronauers short story Dri Chinisin and excerpts of the daily strip "At the museum" that is still eating most of my lifetime. On 3rd of April Brigitte Kronauer, Jan-Frederik Bandel and me will do a performance for the audience.

Kopfkino
02nd February - 20th April 2008
Kunsthaus Dresden
Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst
Rähnitzgasse 8
01097 Dresden

Orang Release 1
13th - 16th March 2008
Tschau Tschüssi
Windmühlenstraße 29
04107 Leipzig

Dri Chinisin
03th April - 29th May
Literaturhaus Stuttgart
Breitscheidstraße 4
70174 Stuttgart

Orang Release 2
04th - 13th April 2008
Galerie Linda
Hein-Hoyer-Str. 13
D-20359 Hamburg

Alice at the museum

2007-12-28T08:36:00.000Z

The first thing to do 2008: a small exhibition, featuring our daily strip "At the museum".

January 6th 2008
8:00 p.m.
Trottoir, Hamburger Hochstraße 24, 20359 Hamburg

Insekt in arms

2007-12-25T07:17:00.000Z

A job I had a lot of fun with: a character design for the upcoming website of my brother(he is a gamer). What you can see here is a combination of my insect character with armour equipment typical for video games such as Unreal Tournament 3.
The only problem: of course my brother refused to pay me. Character design is such an useless thing, but on the other hand: what else to do on Christmas Eve?

Cover for Homestories

2007-12-20T02:22:00.000Z

Kind of publication: Literatur
Language: German
Published: February 2008, Textem Verlag, Hamburg

This cover illustration I made for Frank Schäfers book Homestories, published by Textem Verlag. Schäfer interviewed german writers and published a series of articles about these meetings in the german version of Rolling Stone. He now collected his works and made this very entertaining book out of it. The involved authors in order of appearance: Wolf Wondratschek, Eugen Egner, Peter Glaser, Max Goldt, Helge Schneider, Harry Rowohlt, Horst Friedrichs, Ludwig Lugmeier, Frank Schulz and Thomas Kapielski.

Comicfestival Hamburg

2007-12-11T14:35:00.000Z

Haina, Arne Bellstorf and me organized the second Hamburger Comicfestival. The festival is a small and independant event, but we had a lot of fun and were happy to welcome some international guests in Hamburg as well. For an article about the event in the Hamburger Abendblatt, Haina and me did this illustration, showing me (on the left), Arne Bellstorf (middle) and Haina. Step by step, we will upload festival photos here.

Insects of the universe

2007-09-20T18:16:00.000+01:00

Cuuute, little insects! And this is what Arne Bellstorf did with my insects: a poster for Reprodukt, presenting the new books of Mawil, Dirk Schwieger, Line Hoven and the new issue of Orang.

Sticker for Kultur&Gespenster

2007-09-06T02:16:00.000+01:00

I made this sticker for the magazine Kultur&Gespenster. It is printed in Strapazin #88.

"At the museum" strips translated

2007-08-30T22:34:00.000+01:00

Jan-Frederik Bandel and me lately translated some of the strips we published in the german newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau. Up to now we did 90 strips, would be fun to translate all of them (but of course we have no time to do this)! The strips you see here have been published in July. For october 2008 we plan to publish a collection of our work in Germany.
Here are the english strips, beginning with episode 40 (click to enlarge):

Insekt in France

2007-08-16T22:37:00.000+01:00

The french publishing house Edition Sarbacane will publish my book Insekt in November. The book has a much bigger size than the original, and a beautiful hard cover.

News from the museum

2007-06-14T09:45:00.000+01:00

In Episode 24 of my daily strip, a new Character will join the girl and her brother on their journey through the museum: an insekt. Of course, it is not a common insekt.
The first strip with the insekt will be published in the Frankfurter Rundschau Wednesday, 27th of June.

Drawing in the Tiergarten

2007-05-29T09:55:00.000+01:00

In Berlin, I did some sketches while visiting the Tiergarten. Next time I should bring more time to get deeper into it.

Lorettas Leselampe May 2007

2007-05-25T13:15:00.000+01:00

Feature about "Schreibheft 68" in the german independent radio FSK, with Ole Frahm interviewing me. You can listen to it here(it's in german of course).

Daily Strip

2007-05-25T01:22:00.001+01:00

During the last two weeks, I worked on the concept for a daily strip that will be published in the german newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau. Starting Wednesday, 30th May, the strip will keep me busy for a yet unknown period. Happy me! I think it's a good job, and also an opportunity to work together with Jan-Frederik Bandel, who is planned to be co-author of the whole series. You can see scribbles of the main characters below: one girl, one boy, one night-watchman; the fourth character of importance, an insect, is still missing. The whole story takes place in a museum.

Exhibition of literatur magazin "Schreibheft" in Berlin

2007-04-30T20:22:00.001+01:00

Working on this magazin I co-edited together with Jan-Frederik Bandel brought a wholebunch of unexpected problems, but in the end the exhibition, taking place in the very nice rooms of Haus Schwarzenberg in Berlin, was a success. The readings of Kathrin Röggla and Jochen Schmidt were held in a remarkable relaxed athmosphere; the exhibition itself was quite provisoric but charming, thanks to the helping hands of Mawil and Milla.
The editorial of Schreibheft#68 is visible here.

Schreibheft#68

2007-04-30T01:06:00.000+01:00

Kind of publication: Literatur magazin/anthology
Language: German
Published: April 2007, Rigodon Verlag, Essen

Includes two short stories I made. One adaptation of prose(I had the possibility to illustrate a beautiful work of Hamburg-based author Brigitte Kronauer, you can see two sample pages below); and a story for the editorial, which you can see here.