christmas present

I drew this one as a christmas present for my little sister Serafine. That's me and her.

Merry Christmas!

Jeffrey

Another movie character portrait. This one's from Blue Velvet.

International Self Portrait Day 2009

Since today is International Self Portrait Day, I sharpened my pencil and scribbled this:

Ellen

The fourth entry in my movie-themed illustration series. This time, Alien.

Pencil sketch:

new life drawings

After a long break, I scanned some life drawings again. These nudes are from the first two classes of the current semester (which is my last, actually):



The first three poses were 1 minute, the other two 10 min.

Travis

The third illustration in a series of character portraits from some of my favourite movies. Today: Taxi Driver.

The pencil sketch for this one:

Alex

The second piece in a series of character portraits from some of my favourite movies. This time: A Clockwork Orange.

Pencil sketches for both illus:

Jake

J. J. Gittes, the main character of Chinatown, one of my favourite movies. I rewatched it the other day and felt the urge to draw this character.

interview

A cool interview about JAZAM! with Florian Steinl and me is part of the newest "Zettgeist", a weekly German mp3 podcast from comics publisher Zwerchfell. The interview was recorded at the Comicfestival München in june 2009.

Listen to it HERE!

I Want a Cat

I recently drew a comic page for an interesting comicjam at INKplosion. It's a story called "I Want a Cat 2 - Certainly Not a Cat!" (the sequel to "I Want a Cat"), which starts with a page by Yann Krehl & Steffi Schütze to which a number of other artists created possible second pages. Among these other artists, there are a lot of JAZAM! contributors including, naturally, myself.

Read the whole comicjam here. (there is also a German version)

This is my page:

(scripted by Yann Krehl)

art battle round 3

My entry for the semi finals of the art battle I'm currently participating in:


See my opponent's entry and give your vote here.

art battle round 2

I won the first round and now I finished my entry for the second fight. See it here:


See my opponent's entry and give your vote here.

art battle

There is an art battle going on in the comicforum and I'm participating. This is my character, Yubi:

And this is the first fight:


See the other guy's pic and give your vote here.

JAZAM! stuff: festival report & interview

The new fourth issue of JAZAM! was presented and sold at the Comicfestival München a little over two weeks ago. There's a nice report of it with lots of photos at the JAZAM! blog.

The new books are here now and can be ordered at our website.

A new interview with me about JAZAM! is now online on Comicgate. Read it here.

radio interview

Tomorrow, I'm part of a radio broadcast about the current state of the comics medium. The discussion will air on tuesday, june 16, from 9:00 to 11:00 pm on the new Bavarian radio station egoFM, which can be received in Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Regensburg, and Würzburg, and on the net. As far as I know, the discussion will be available online afterwards.

Read more about it here.

they're here!

I picked up my minicomic Hipsters vs. Monsters from the printer today and I'm really happy about it. I printed 100 issues which I will sell at the Comicfestival Munich for the next 4 days at the JAZAM! booth. This is how it looks:


Sadly, the printer messed up and didn't finish JAZAM! vol. 4 in time. Maybe we will get some of the books friday afternoon. This sucks.

"Hipsters vs. Monsters" minicomic

"Hipsters vs. Monsters" is a little 20-page comic book that I just finished and which I'm going to self-publish in time for the Comicfestival München. If you are not going to attend the Comicfestival and don't have any other chance to meet me in person, you can order it via E-Mail for 2 € (+0.60 € shipping in Germany). Below is the cover and a 3-page preview (click to enlarge).



Story synopsis from the back of the book (in German): "Das kleine Monster Xovi und seine Freunde finden in ihrer Welt ein Portal, das sie geradewegs in die Herrentoilette des enorm angesagten 'Red Star Club' führt. Doch die ortsansässigen Hipster sind nicht gerade begeistert über die ungebetenen Gäste..."

JAZAM! vol. 4

The new volume of the German independent comic anthology JAZAM! is almost here. The book (with the theme "monsters") is currently in print and can be pre-ordered at our newly redesigned website. We will present and sell the book at the Munich Comicfestival (June 11-14).

The book is 356 pages strong, costs 15 €, and contains comics and illustrations by 68 different artists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Plenty of previews and all kinds of JAZAM!-related news can be found on our blog.


I'm one of the editors of the book, responsible for layout and design, and contributed an 11-page comic story and one page for a cool comicjam. These are the first two pages of my story "Nutzmenschen" (click to enlarge):

Hipsters vs. Monsters teaser

A teaser image for a little comic book that I'm currently working on. I want to self-publish it in time for the Comicfestival in Munich in June.

sometimes I'm afraid that people are going to eat me

This is one of my rare non-digital works. It's a pastel drawing/painting mix done on a huge cardboard. Took me quite a while to finish because I wasn't sure about that little guy in the middle.

more JAZAM! stuff

Another one-panel preview for JAZAM! Vol. 4, this time from my 11-page story "Nutzmenschen" ("production humans").

The wonderful cover by Daniela Uhlig has also been revealed on our blog, along with lots of previews from the book. Click on the image below to get there:

JAZAM! jam preview

In the fourth volume of JAZAM!, there will be not only my previously mentioned 11-page comic, but also a fun 13-page comicjam, of which I drew one page. Here's a panel from said page:

after a long break...

...I finally got to do some life drawing again in the last week of my internship at HahnFilm in Berlin. We mostly did very short poses (30 sec. - 2 min.), which was great for practice but didn't produce a whole lot of presentable results. Still, I scanned a small selection:

(10 min.)

(30 sek.)

(2 min.)

(2 min.)

(1 min.)

JAZAM comic character designs

I've been back in Munich for a week now and finally started working on my comic for the next issue of JAZAM!

These are some of the characters in the story:

some guy

Just a quick little something, experimenting with custom brushes and textures: