FRITZ!Box Character Designs

Before I drew the 5 episodes of my christmas comics for German wi-fi equipment manufacturer AVM, I had to design the main characters. 

AVM had already done a live-action ad with them, but I got to determine how they looked as comic characters. First, we had to find the right style, so I drew three different versions of main hero Fritz Box: 

They liked version #2 best, and after some minor adjustments, I drew my versions of Power-Liene and Repeater-Pieter:

I hope I get to draw some more comic adventures with this trio in 2021!

FRITZ!Box Comic #5

 My fifth (and final) comic for the FRITZ!Box advent calendar:

Read all five of them on the AVM website.

Happy holidays!

FRITZ!Box Comic #4

My fourth comic for the FRITZ!Box advent calendar:

GELA von Gelnhausen

I colored this cool new kids' comic by Christopher Tauber & Calle Claus (lettering by Stefan Dinter):

More info on the Gelnhausen website

FRITZ!Box Comic #3

 My third comic for the FRITZ!Box advent calendar:

All of the comics are also available on AVM's website.

FRITZ!Box Comic #2

 My second comic for the FRITZ!Box advent calendar: 

FRITZ!Box Advent Calendar

I got to draw a fun series of superhero comic strips for Berlin-based wi-fi equipment manufacturer AVM. There’s going to be one episode for every week of December and an extra one for Christmas - here’s the first one: 

The comics are part of their advent calendar, which comes with cool daily prizes! For this, I drew an illustration of the Fritz!Box heroes (aka 'The AVMgers') in holiday garb:

Trek & Gold Continues

I can't show you the other projects I'm working on right now, but what I can show you are some of the new podcast covers I've been drawing for Eve Jay's & my Star Trek podcast Trek & Gold.

Right now, we're discussing Star Trek Discovery season 3, for which I've drawn these:

Before that, I did some more Lower Decks covers like this one:

And for our Patreon, I drew a couple of Lower Decks-style portraits of our patrons:

Pure Fruit anniversary fig

 I drew a fig for the 10th anniversary of German indie comic zine Pure Fruit:

Trek & Gold: Lower Decks

Eve Jay and I are once again podcasting about Star Trek - this time it's about the brand new animated comedy show "Star Trek: Lower Decks", which I'm enjoying a lot. In our first new podcast, we talk about the first two episodes: Trek & Gold 59

For this, I also drew a new cover with the two of us as Lower Decks characters:

If you, too, want to become a Lower Decks character, you can get your own LD portrait on our Patreon.

Jägerinnen

 A recent illustration I made for the website of filmmaker power couple Mo & Melissa Isabell Jäger, jaegerinnen.com:

2021, Fuck Yeah!

Once again, I was asked to join Schlogger's annual "Fuck Yeah" calendar, which contains weekly illustrations by some of Germany's coolest cartoonists and illustrators (and also me).

For this year's edition I collaborated with David Füleki, whose work I've been a fan of for a long time. Roughly speaking, he drew the right half of the picture, I the left half. We both worked on the colors and the original idea came from my gf Katja Klengel.

Because the calendar is supposed to be family-friendly, we made an alternate version without the umbilical cord for it. I prefer the version with the cord, though.

You can now pre-order the calendar at Kwimbi. 

Comicgate.de also has a brief interview with me about my illustration for last year's calendar and current projects.

PSYCHO Poster

For an upcoming special screening presented by my publisher Zwerchfell, I got to illustrate this poster for Alfred Hitchcock's horror classic "Psycho" (which turns 60 this year):

"Clean" version:

You can buy a print of the first version at the event on August 26 at Harmonie Kinos Frankfurt. The proceeds go to Sea-Watch!

Die Toten @ CSE digital

The German comics community was very sad when our biggest comics festival, Comic-Salon Erlangen, had to be cancelled this year because of Covid-19. Luckily, the good folks at Kulturamt Erlangen came up with a digital alternative and launched a digital platform called #CSEdigital. On it, there will be a lot of cool content from many of my fellow comics creators and me.

Together with Comic Solidarity and podcast Der Tele-Stammtisch, we made the following video, which contains a short interview and a 15-minute video version of my comic Die Toten: Isar Palace (in German). The character voices are Katja Klengel & me.

If you want to know the rest of the story, you can order the comic at your local comic shop or book store or online at Kwimbi and Amazon.de.

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!