A Tribute to Robert Crumb

Alright... after teasing you for weeks, I'm finally going to show you my full illustration for "A Tribute to Robert Crumb," as it appears at the exhibition at Amerika Haus München and in the Edition 52 book that has just come out. Click on the cover (by none other than Charles freakin' Burns!) to buy the book at Amazon.de:

The book (& exhibition) contains a ton of amazing artwork and comix by some international stars and some of the finest German cartoonists. And little old me. So, without further ado, here's my contribution:

A Tribute to Robert Crumb - the exhibition

Starting tonight, you can see my Robert Crumb tribute illustration at Amerika Haus München. The vernissage will be tonight at 8pm (I've heard there's free wine!) and the exhibition will stay open for the next couple of weeks, all the way through Comicfestival München. Here's what my illustration looks like on the wall:

Pixel Hipsters (Comic Collab #20)

After wanting to do so for months, I finally managed to participate in one of Schlogger's so-called "Comic Collabs." It's basically a fixed date at which lots of German comic bloggers upload comics (& stuff) with a common topic. This month's topic is "pixel," and while I didn't have time to do a comic, I made these pixel versions of my Hipsters characters:

Here are some of the other participants:

• Schlogger
• Isla Volante
• Steffi Kick
• Jo Lott
• Lolnein
• Blogrovic
• Catfish
• Just Kritzeling
• Pepperworth
• Swimsuit Competition
• Regenmonster
• David Füleki
• Birne Helene
• Kales Sofakinder
• Solarblaukraut
• Fuggiano Comics
• Marvin Clifford
• Mehrtagsfliege
• Clawsink 
• Pete's Daily

48 Stunden Angst

While I contributed "only" illustrations and no comics to JAZAM! vol. 8 and A Tribute to Robert Crumb, you'll still be able to buy some new comics by me at Comicfestival München later this month. Over the last few days, I've prepared "48 Stunden Angst" (48 Hours of Fear), a small comic book containing both of the 24h comics I've drawn in the past year. Whereas you can already read "Infiltrated" online, this will be the only way to read last month's "Anni, die kleine Kannibalin" (Annie, the Little Cannibal) for now. I'll show some pages from it on the blog soon, but for now, here's the cover of the mini book:

24h comic day Leipzig

Halfway through the last 24h comic day I swore I'd never do one again. So naturally, I did one again only half a year later. Last weekend, a number of cool German webcomic artists and I went to Leipzig and spent 24 hours at the great location current Hipsters guest artist Hillerkiller had dug up, drawing 24 comic pages, battling sleepiness and sore drawing hands, and eating lots of snacks (secretly the most important part of 24hcd). I don't think my comic turned out as well as my last one, but you'll be able to judge for yourself, soon.

I'll need a few days to scan my pages, do some slight corrections and an English translation, but I'll definitely present them here on the blog once I'm done. Here's how they looked on the wall in Leipzig just after I'd finished:

And here's a photo by Ulf Salzmann:

A Tribute to Robert Crumb - preview 2

I already showed you one little snippet from my contribution to the "A Tribute to Robert Crumb" book, and here's another one:

I'll post the whole thing a little bit closer to the exhibition at Comicfestival München in late May.

HIPSTERS vs. Robots pts. 35 & 36

Here they are, the final two parts of Hipsters Vs. Robots:

Read the whole thing from the start RIGHT HERE. All the other storylines are available in the archive.

It’ll be a couple of weeks before I start with the next storyline, but in the meantime, there will be a couple of cool guest comics from some cartoonist friends of mine.

German version of pt. 35 & German version of pt. 36

A Tribute to Robert Crumb - preview

I was very honored to be asked to be a part of the "A Tribute to Robert Crumb" book and exhibition at the Comicfestival München this year, even though I only had a few days to complete my contribution. I'm not going to show you the whole thing just yet, but here's a first little snippet from my R. Crumb tribute:

Comichöhle podcast interview

Last week, I was a guest on the new German webcomic podcast "Comichöhle," where I talked about Hipsters, JAZAM!, and my band Affection Play. The interview was released today and you can listen to it right here:

http://www.comichoehle.de/ch007/

HIPSTERS vs. Robots pts. 31 & 32 & 33 & 34

As we near the end of 'Hipsters Vs. Robots,' I bring you a super-sized update of the last few weeks' comics. Read 'HvR' from the beginning!

German version of pt. 31 & German version of pt. 32 &
German version of pt. 33 & German version of pt. 34