Art vs. Artist 2020

The #artvsartist meme has become an annual tradition at this point. Here's my newest version:

More Papierdrachen

My cover for the new episode of the DnD podcast Papierdrachen - der Podcast für Würfelfreunde, on which I’m also a guest.

Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/papierdrachen/episode-3-5

Six Fanarts

The new meme that's all the rage these days is the #SixFanarts challenge, in which you ask your social media followers for character suggestions and then draw 6 of them in your style.

I had so much fun with this that I did it three times this week! Here they are:

Trek & Gold: Picard

Like we did with Star Trek: Discovery, my podcast "Dreck & Gold" has been doing episode recaps for every episode of the first season of Star Trek: Picard.

For every one of those podcasts, I drew a cover illustration. Here are some of them:

Listen to the full podcast season HERE.

Fauler Zauber - Comic Video

For the YIPPIE YouTube channel, Katja Klengel and I made a video version of my short kids comic "Fauler Zauber" from 2016 with music, sound effects and voices (in German):

JAZAM! vol. 11, where this story originally appeared, is unfortunately sold out, but our other kids issue "Schreckgeschichten" is still available at the Kwimbi shop.

The English version of "Fauler Zauber" ("Dirty Tricks") is on Tapas.

U.P.P.

I made this 6-page comic with Said Omar Eshaq in 2018 for JAZAM! Schreckgeschichten. He did the story & line art, I did the colors.

It's also up on Tapas.

Buy the whole book (theme: "Schreckgeschichten"/"scary stories") now at Kwimbi, Hummelcomic, or Amazon.de!

Papierdrachen

My cover for the new episode of the D&D podcast Papierdrachen - der Podcast für Würfelfreunde, on which I’m also a guest.

Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/papierdrachen/episode-3-3

Stay at Home

My gf Katja Klengel & I recorded a song about social distancing / CoVID-19. Because some people just don't get how important it is, we trust in the catchy power of 'Let It Go' to educate you. So sing along and #StayAtHome!

We also made the cover illustration together. She drew herself, I drew Olaf/me & colored it.

Start || Finish

There's a new meme on twitter where artists are comparing their early sketches to the finished artwork. I did this for two pages from my comic "Die Toten: Isar Palace":

You can still get the book for just 12€ at any German comic shop or book store (please ask them to order it for you if they don't have it), or at KWIMBI, Hummelcomic, and Amazon.de.

Der Westworld Podcast - Season 3 Cover

I got to do another cover illustration for season 3 of this German "Westworld" podcast:

Because the official poster artwork for the new Westworld season didn't come out until I had already started working on this, I ended up doing two different versions of the background. Here's the first one that didn't end up being used:

#toonMe Challenge

There's a new art meme going around, where cartoonists and illustrators draw over half of a photo of themselves. I joined the fun:

RIVER'S EDGE Poster

Have you ever seen River's Edge? It‘s a bleak teen drama from 1986, and one of Keanu Reeves's first movies. For an upcoming special screening presented by my publisher Zwerchfell, I got to illustrate this poster:

"Clean" version:

You can buy a print of the first version at the event on January 15 at Harmonie Kinos Frankfurt. The proceeds go to Sea-Watch!

Club 19 Season 2 Podcast Cover

Two years ago, I already did a podcast cover illustration for season 1 of the German Stephen King podcast Club 19. Now, they're in the middle of season 2 and I got to do a new one.

Here's the square version:

There's more to it, though! The Club 19 guys made a physical notebook as a reward for their Patreon supporters, for which I drew matching front (left) and back (right) covers. Have a look:

"Die Toten" Halloween Reading in Berlin

If you're in Berlin this Thursday night (on Halloween!), you can come and see (and hear) Katja Klengel and me read from my new book "Die Toten: Isar Palace" at Modern Graphics Kastanienallee.

Here's the (German) info text:

Am Donnerstag, den 31. Oktober feiern wir im Laden in der Kastanienallee HALLOWEEN! 

Um 20 Uhr Uhr lesen die beiden Berliner Comiczeichner*innen Adrian vom Baur und Katja Klengel bei gruseliger Atmosphäre aus Adrians neuem Comic-Album "Die Toten: Isar Palace". 

Die von ihm geschriebene und gezeichnete Horrorgeschichte dreht sich um eine Mordserie in einem Münchner Luxus-Wohnkomplex während der Zombie-Apokalypse.
Mit "Die Toten: Isar Palace" nimmt der Zwerchfell Verlag die erfolgreiche Zombiecomicreihe "Die Toten" wieder neu und bietet mit Adrian vom Baurs Standalone-Story einen idealen Anfang auch für Neueinsteiger in die Serie. 

Im Anschluss an die Lesung beantwortet Adrian Fragen zum Comic und signiert seinen Comic. 

Und: Kommt im Halloween- oder Zombiekostüm! der Zwerchfell Verlag verlost insgesamt 5 Exemplare des Comics unter allen, die verkleidet sind.
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2020, Fuck Yeah! Calendar

It's become a beloved yearly tradition for me to draw an illustration for Schlogger's "Fuck Yeah!" calendar.

This time, I used some background characters I had recently designed for a kids' comic project, and painted them in a style I hadn't really tried before. Here's the result:

You can order the calendar now at Kwimbi (maybe together with my Die Toten comic and/or the new JAZAM?): ORDER HERE

The calendar contains lots of wonderful illustrations from 60+ talented German cartoonists & illustrators. Here's the cover by Susann Hoffmann: