Animal Character Designs

Some character designs for an upcoming kids' comic project I've been working on:

Paluten Freedom: Der Golemkönig

Earlier this year, I got to work on a pretty cool comic based on the Minecraft characters by popular German YouTuber Paluten. The story is by Haiko Hörnig, line art by Irina Zinner, and colors by Eve Jay (flats) and myself (finishes). It was a lot of fun and the book turned out nicely and is already a best-seller! You can order it here.

Check it out if a funny all-ages fantasy adventure sounds like something you'd enjoy!

The cover (which I didn't color):

Some pages (which I did color):

I already signed a few books for some folks:

The new JAZAM!

For 13 years now, my co-editors and I have been putting out the German indie comics anthology JAZAM!, but this year we thought we'd try something different: rather than assembling stories from dozens of different artists, we picked just one.

David Füleki has continuously contributed awesome short comics to JAZAM! for many years now, and we thought it would be great if people could read all of them in one place. He also liked this idea, and so he reworked and expanded them, drew new introduction comics for most of them, and added a few fun stories that were previously unpublished or published in other anthologies.

I myself got to color one of my favorite comics of his, "Beppo Biber".

Here's the cool cover for "The Best (and Worst) of David Füleki":

And a page from "Beppo Biber" with my colors:

See more pages at MyComics.de!

You can order the book at Kwimbi  |  Amazon.de  |  Hummelcomic  |  Comic Combo

Comicfestival München 2019 & Comic Con Germany

Starting this Thursday, I'll be at Comicfestival München​.

You can find me every day signing my books at the JAZAM! table, and at the following events:

Thu. 16:00 – Talkrunde mit Andreas Prill – zu Gast u.a. Adrian vom Baur, Carolin Reich und Armer Armin (Bier- & Oktoberfestmuseum)

Fri. 15:00 – GIRLSPLAINING – Lesung mit Katja Klengel und Adrian vom Baur (Alte Kongresshalle, Saal 1)

Fri. 17:00 – Comiclesung KINDERLAND – mit Mawil, Katja Klengel, Adrian vom Baur und Dominik Wendland (Alte Kongresshalle, Saal 2)

Sun. 15:30 – Die Toten: Isar Palace – Lesung des Münchner Zombie-Comic von Adrian vom Baur, mit Unterstützung von Katja Klengel (Alte Kongresshalle, Saal 1)

One week after that, I'll be at Comic Con Germany in Stuttgart, where you can find me at the Comic Solidarity table in the Comic Zone.

I'll also have a JAZAM! reading with Katja Klengel on Saturday (June 29) at 12:30 on the Comic Zone stage.

Die Toten: Isar Palace - coming soon!

Very soon, my comic for German zombie comic series Die Toten is going to come out!

Have a look at my cover:

And a couple of preview panels I posted on Instagram:

Radio Nukular #100

I got to do the cover for Radio Nukular's 100th podcast episode about time travel:

And here's just the line art:

Trek & Gold season 2

It's already been a few weeks since we finished the second season of our podcast "Trek & Gold", but I just realized that I never posted anything about it on this blog.

Just like during the first season, Eve Jay and I did in-depth podcast recaps for every episode of the second season of Star Trek: Discovery. You can check those out on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, or most other places where you can subscribe to podcasts. For every one of those podcast episodes, I also drew a cover illustration. Here are some of my favorites:

Herzlichtspieler

An illustrated logo I recently made for an interesting theater crowdfunding project:

#artvsartist2019

I'm very busy with work right now, so I haven't had much time to work on my own art. I still wanted to post something on the blog, so here's my new #artvsartist for 2019 that I did a little while ago:

Radio Nukular #91

I was asked to do a new Radio Nukular cover for their podcast about the movies of Steven Spielberg:

Here's a look at my rough sketch (I admit I traced some elements like the truck from photos - I'm no good at drawing cars):

Portrait

Happy new year, everybody!

Just before the end of last year, I drew this pic of my girlfriend and me as a christmas parents for some relatives:

Here's the scribble and ink versions:

And here's just me, which I'm using as my new profile pic:

Inktober 2018 - Star Trek portraits - now for sale!

Once again this year, I participated in Inktober, a challenge to draw one ink drawing on every day of October and post them online. This was my fourth time participating, and my third time with a theme. This year's theme for me was Star Trek. These are the 31 character portraits I drew:

See the full gallery on Facebook!

For the first time, you're now able to BUY these drawings! Every one is an original marker drawing on thick 14,8x21cm (DIN A5) paper, and they cost 50€ each (incl. shipping to Germany). Just send me an e-mail and tell me which ones you want! You can pay using PayPal or bank transfer. Don't forget to send your address!

Here's the list (I'm going to cross entries out if I sell any):

1. Worf  2. Uhura  3. Odo  4. Shran  5. Michael Burnham  6. Captain Janeway  7. Will Riker  8. Major Kira  9. Sulu  10. Hugh the Borg  11. Gul Dukat  12. Counselor Troi  13. Saru  14. Captain Sisko  15. B'Elanna Torres  16. Data  17. Captain Archer  18. Ezri Dax  19. Doctor McCoy  20. Quark  21. Captain Georgiou  22. Q  23. Captain Picard  24. L'Rell  25. Tuvok  26. Doctor Bashir  27. Khan  28. T'Pol  29. Captain Lorca  30. Seven of Nine  31. Captain Kirk  32. Guinan  33. Scotty  34. Kai Winn  35. Doctor Phlox  36. The Doctor  37. Captain Killy  38. Geordi LaForge  39. Jadzia Dax  40. Gorn  41. Sela  42. Neelix  43. Mr. Spock

And oh, by the way: I'm actually going to continue drawing these! I still have a lot of Trek characters I still want to draw, so I'm going to continue this into November and maybe beyond. Make sure to follow me on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter so you never miss any!

2019, Fuck Yeah! Calendar Illustration

Once again, I was asked to participate in Schlogger's new "Fuck Yeah!" calendar, which every year collects 52 illustrations from many of Germany's most interesting young cartoonists and illustrators.

For my week in mid-December I chose to do something with the two main characters from my upcoming comic for German zombie comics anthology "Die Toten". Here it is:

And here's just the line art:

Check out the cool cover art by Illustrie:

I have a couple of these calendars to sell to you. Send me an e-mail or a message on FB/Insta/Twitter if you want a signed calendar for just 20€ (shipping is free)!

Radio Nukular #84

I made another cover illustration for the popular German nostalgia podcast Radio Nukular. This episode is all about the hip-hop music career of one of their members, Max aka. Rockstah.

Rockstah likes to dress up as The Penguin from Batman, which explains the outfit, and the overall layout is inspired by the album cover for Bob Seger's "Beautiful Loser".

Some character designs

A year or so ago, I drew some character designs for a learning game project that didn't end up happening. Here they are: