Announcement: Heavysaurus vol. 2

It's not out until December & I still have a lot of pages left to draw, but today I can announce that I'm working on the 2nd volume of the official Heavysaurus comic!

Here's the cover:

You can already pre-order it at the Carlsen website.

Here's the (German) synopsis:

Metal-Dinos in der Falle – ein Abenteuer voller Musik und Freundschaft!

Die Dino-Metal-Band HEAVYSAURUS ist voller Vorfreude: Nach ihrem erfolgreichen Schulkonzert wollen sie endlich zusammen mit ihrem Manager Tommy ihr erstes Album aufnehmen. Während eines Interviews kreuzen sich jedoch ihre Wege mit Richard Hamann, dem ehrgeizigen Besitzer des neuen Vergnügungsparks Crazyland. Er unterbreitet ihnen ein verlockendes Angebot – so verlockend, dass die Dinos einem Besuch im Park schließlich zustimmen. Doch was als harmloser Ausflug beginnt, entpuppt sich schnell als Falle. Hinter Hamanns freundlicher Fassade verbergen sich dunkle Pläne, und ehe sie sich versehen, sind Mr. Heavysaurus, Riffi Raffi, Milli Pilli, Muffi Puffi und Komppi Momppi in Crazyland gefangen. Eine actionreiche Verfolgungsjagd durch den Park beginnt, bei der die Dinos alle Tricks und Attraktionen des Crazylands nutzen müssen. Werden sie es schaffen Hamann und seinen Wachmännern zu entkommen?

Police! - Comic Strip for Berliner Fenster

If you're riding the Berlin subway this week, you may see this comic strip by Katja Klengel & me (& our kid).

German version:

English version:

Video version.

Heavysaurus promo flyer

To promote the comic and audio plays at Heavysaurus concerts, I designed this flyer with an abbreviated version of the comic prologue:

HEAVYSAURUS - Der Comic

Today is the official release day of my new comic! Get it now wherever comics are sold (preferably your local book/comic shop) or order it straight from the publisher.

Some pages from the book:

Character Designs

Some character designs for a recent comic project that didn't end up happening.

My new comic: HeavySaurus

My new comic was just announced!

The official comic about kid-friendly heavy-metal band "HeavySaurus", drawn and scripted by me, will be published in the fall by major German comics publisher Carlsen and can be pre-ordered now.

Here's the cover illustration: 

Synopsis (in German):

Eines Tages, hoch oben auf dem magischen Berg DINO ROCK, gab sich die verrückte Hexe RUPULINA ganz ihrer geheimen Leidenschaft hin: Sie drehte die Lautsprecher bis zum Anschlag auf und spielte schrille Solos auf ihrer schwarzen Flying-V Stromgitarre. Die magischen Klänge ihres Instruments ließen ein grollendes Gewitter aufziehen und bald schlug ein Blitz ins Millionen Jahre alte Bergmassiv ein. Rupulina staunte nicht schlecht als sich eine Felsspalte auftat und aus fünf bunten Urzeit-Eiern vier Dinos und ein Drache schlüpften.

MR. HEAVYSAURUS, MILLI PILLI, KOMPPI MOMPPI, MUFFI PUFFI und der Drache RIFFI RAFFI lernen von ihrer Ziehmutter Heavy Metal zu spielen und zu lieben. Schnell entsteht der Traum, Konzerte zu spielen und noch mehr Menschen für den Metal zu begeistern. Doch Rupulina erlaubt den Heavysauriern nicht, sich den Menschen zu zeigen. Werden sie es trotzdem schaffen, ihr erstes Konzert zu feiern?

Lesespaß für kleine und große Metalheads.

I'm excited! Now I just have to finish drawing the thing...

Tracht Man - variant cover

I had a lot of fun drawing this variant cover for an upcoming issue of the Bavarian cult superhero comic book "Tracht Man" by Chris Kloiber (Plem Plem Productions):

The inks:

The initial sketch:

You can buy the book sometime in 2025.

JAZAM! Coming of Age

After 17 years, 15 books, and various specials, we just put out our final volume of German indie comics anthology JAZAM!

We launched a successful Kickstarter campaign last fall and finally got the finished books from the printer's a week ago. I just finished shipping all of the rewards today.

cover by Dozerdraws

I contributed a 25-page queer fantasy adventure/romance story called "Murkis großer Tag". Here's a 2-page spread from the comic:

Some photos of my pages in the book:

The book contains comics & illustrations from 33 other artists and is 240 pages in full color. If you missed the Kickstarter, you can order the book now from Kwimbi

2023, Fuck Yeah!

After taking a year off, I once again participated in Schlogger's annual "Fuck Yeah" calendar last year and created this illustration featuring some characters from my upcoming JAZAM! comic “Murki's Big Day”.

I just gave an interview (in German) to Comicgate about the illustration and my comic. (including a preview page from the comic and some work in progress scribbles for the illu)

The calendar is out now and can be ordered from Kwimbi.

Moga Mobo Musik

The guys who make German indie comic fanzine Moga Mobo have been at it for even longer than we have with JAZAM!, and they never seem to run out of ideas on how to keep their zine fresh. I've previously participated in their "Comic Clash" competition, but last year I was asked for the first time to contribute to one of their regular issues. For this one, they asked 100 artist to draw dialogue-free one-page comic versions of the "Greatest Hits" of rock & pop music. I chose to put pictures to Sia's "Chandelier", both because I love the song and because I wanted to add some newer music to the mix. 

Here's my comic:

And here's the book:

It's available to buy at the Moga Mobo shop or for free at various conventions, etc.

GermanLetsPlay colors

In 2021, I got to color a large section of a new comic/manga by the popular video game youtuber GermanLetsPlay, writer Haiko Hörnig & artist David Füleki. With flat support by Eve Jay.

Have a look at some of my pages and hit me up if you want to buy a signed copy!

Unveröffentlicht

Continuing with the catching-up, today I'd like to tell you about "Unveröffentlicht", an exhibition of unfinished German comics that I was part of in late 2021. 

At the exhibition, I showed pages from my never-finished, unpublished mystery graphic novel “Die Anstalt”, which I co-wrote with Roman Senkl in 2010. I handed in the first ~25 pages of the book as my bachelor thesis back in the day, but the project was a bit more ambitious than Roman and I were able to handle while also working other jobs, so we eventually abandoned it.

Sadly I could not attend the exhibition, but Moritz Stetter, whose comics were also part of the exhibition, took these very nice photos of my pages at Schloss Oberhausen:

There was also a nice, big catalogue:

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:

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.

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.