Original drawings
A bit about my comics, published and to be published. And the comics I do for fun.
First: My entry for a manga competition. It didn't win anything, it wasn't even placed. But some guys (one of them is my best friend in the business now) decided it was worth being published in a collection (called Manga Spot) with other entries that didn't win.
The manga/comic is called "Aus der Hölle - In die Hölle" (sort of: "From Hell - Into Hell") and it's about a... wizarding school. Definitely not like Hogwarts of course. It's more about demons and summoning, banishing, dimensional travel and all that.
Second: I prepared a portfolio and introduced myself to the people of "Schwarzer Turm" (Black Tower) a small German publishing house. They took me in and this summer my story "Nach Oben" (literally "To Above", my preferred translation would be something like "To the Surface" or more simply "Up") was published in their anthology "Paper Theatre".
This one is about zombies. Or a boy and a girl battling zombies.
Third: I don't know when this will be published (by Schwarzer Turm in an upcoming volume of "Paper Theatre"), I guess around January next year. It's called "Frösche Küssen" ("Kissing Frogs") and tells what happened between a friend, me and some boys. It's rather juvenile but was fun to write and draw. And it's almost double the length of my older stories.
Forth: Will be published next spring. "Die Trommel" ("The Drum") is a song by a German Folk-Metal Band called Subway To Sally. Schwarzer Turm and another (big) German Publishing House, EMA, put together a collection of comics to songs of Subway To Sally and I was asked to contribute. The really exciting part was that they wanted me to do a song from the upcoming album. A song that was not even released! So I didn't get to hear the song, I only had the lyrics to work with. The lyrics are about war and the "pity of war" (to abuse a Wilfred Owen quote), which was difficult for me at first. I was reluctant about the decision but finally dared to draw a comic about World War II. in Germany.
That's it.
Also, I'm doing a comic for fun right now, called "Gestern Noch" ("Only Yesterday", which sounds somewhat stupid in English but really haunting in German, trust me *g*)
And here are pictures, a page and some commentary -
About "Gestern Noch": It's about two boys in their last year of school. They decide to go on a road trip, they fall for each other. I make this sound incredibly stupid and shallow, but it isn't. Or at least I try to make it not stupid and shallow.
Robin, one of the two boys.
Robin again.
Robin and Kai.
Page 28
I don't think this will be published. That's not what I'm doing it for. It's more of a playground for me, where I can try new ways of storytelling or new pens. *g*
First: My entry for a manga competition. It didn't win anything, it wasn't even placed. But some guys (one of them is my best friend in the business now) decided it was worth being published in a collection (called Manga Spot) with other entries that didn't win.
The manga/comic is called "Aus der Hölle - In die Hölle" (sort of: "From Hell - Into Hell") and it's about a... wizarding school. Definitely not like Hogwarts of course. It's more about demons and summoning, banishing, dimensional travel and all that.
Second: I prepared a portfolio and introduced myself to the people of "Schwarzer Turm" (Black Tower) a small German publishing house. They took me in and this summer my story "Nach Oben" (literally "To Above", my preferred translation would be something like "To the Surface" or more simply "Up") was published in their anthology "Paper Theatre".
This one is about zombies. Or a boy and a girl battling zombies.
Third: I don't know when this will be published (by Schwarzer Turm in an upcoming volume of "Paper Theatre"), I guess around January next year. It's called "Frösche Küssen" ("Kissing Frogs") and tells what happened between a friend, me and some boys. It's rather juvenile but was fun to write and draw. And it's almost double the length of my older stories.
Forth: Will be published next spring. "Die Trommel" ("The Drum") is a song by a German Folk-Metal Band called Subway To Sally. Schwarzer Turm and another (big) German Publishing House, EMA, put together a collection of comics to songs of Subway To Sally and I was asked to contribute. The really exciting part was that they wanted me to do a song from the upcoming album. A song that was not even released! So I didn't get to hear the song, I only had the lyrics to work with. The lyrics are about war and the "pity of war" (to abuse a Wilfred Owen quote), which was difficult for me at first. I was reluctant about the decision but finally dared to draw a comic about World War II. in Germany.
That's it.
Also, I'm doing a comic for fun right now, called "Gestern Noch" ("Only Yesterday", which sounds somewhat stupid in English but really haunting in German, trust me *g*)
And here are pictures, a page and some commentary -
About "Gestern Noch": It's about two boys in their last year of school. They decide to go on a road trip, they fall for each other. I make this sound incredibly stupid and shallow, but it isn't. Or at least I try to make it not stupid and shallow.
Robin, one of the two boys.
Robin again.
Robin and Kai.
Page 28
I don't think this will be published. That's not what I'm doing it for. It's more of a playground for me, where I can try new ways of storytelling or new pens. *g*