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.

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.

Palms in Sorrow

This Sunday, I'm doing another Reading Panels comic reading in Dresden. This time, we're reading one of my favorite German comics, "Das UPgrade" by Sascha Wüstefeld and Ulf S. Graupner. In the comic, there's a fictional song called "Palms in Sorrow", which I recorded for the reading. Here it is:

The reading is on Sunday, October 9 at 7pm at Thalia Kino Dresden. Here's the Facebook event!

If you like this song, check out MY OTHER MUSIC!

Reading Panels: "Als ich so alt war"

For the past year or so, I've participated in a number of comic readings in Katja Klengel's "Reading Panels" series. Some of them have been readings of my own comic, Hipsters, others were readings of other artists' comics, which I just joined as a voice actor.

One of the most recent ones was a reading of Katja's great graphic novel "Als ich so alt war" in Dresden last December. This one was special because it contained several songs (which Katja and I performed live) and some live kalimba music. It was also the first one that was filmed in its entirety. See the first part here:



And see the other nine parts RIGHT HERE.

The next reading will be a compilation of several short comics by Katja, Tim Gaedke, Matthias Lehmann, and me at the Schauburg in Dresden on May 22, 2016.

Affection Play - Isolated [EP]

Because our drummer and I moved away from Munich, my indie rock band Affection Play had to break up in 2015, but not before recording one final farewell EP. This is it:

There are five brand new tracks on it, and I think they're some of our best, most professionally produced stuff, if I do say so myself.

Listen to it on Soundcloud

Download it on Bandcamp (pay what you want)

As usually, I sang and wrote most of the vocals & lyrics, played some keyboard, and designed the cover artwork.

If you like it, please consider sharing it on some of your social media channels!

Affection Play's First Album!

I don't have much new comics & illustration stuff to show you right now, but I've got something else: my band's first album! In case you didn't know: I'm the singer & keyboarder, and write most of the lyrics.

We originally recorded these songs two years ago, but the mixing etc. took a little bit longer than expected. Anyway, it's done now, and can be downloaded from Bandcamp (pay what you want!) or listened to at Soundcloud.

I designed the cover art, too.

If you like the music at all, please follow Affection Play on facebook!

Comichöhle podcast interview

Last week, I was a guest on the new German webcomic podcast "Comichöhle," where I talked about Hipsters, JAZAM!, and my band Affection Play. The interview was released today and you can listen to it right here:

http://www.comichoehle.de/ch007/

new Affection Play song

As I may have mentioned before, I'm not only a cartoonist and illustrator, but also a singer/keyboarder/songwriter in a sort-of amateurish alternative-rock band called Affection Play. Because of some personell changes and because we had a hard time finding an affordable studio for recording new material, we haven't really put out a lot of music in the last few years, neither live nor recorded. Hopefully, that's going to change now. To start things off, we just uploaded our first official single "Intelligent People Are Rarely Happy", which you can listen to right here:



It's a "pre-release" version and not a final mix, which is why we're not offering a download at this time. Once our entire album/EP/whatever is finished in a couple of weeks/months, a download option of some kind will become available. In the meantime, you can listen to this one online. Let me know what you think!

The main reason why we're putting this song out right now is that we have a live gig in two weeks (nov. 30). It's an aids benefit concert with some other cool bands such as Munich indie sensation Pardon Ms. Arden. I'd love for you to stop by if you're in or around Munich, Germany! Get more info at our facebook event.

Here's another look at the "cd cover" I designed:

new music + radio interview

Even though this blog is mostly meant to showcase my cartooning and my art and design work, I like to occasionally post some updates about my musical pursuits. I'm the lead singer of the alternative rock band Affection Play and we've recently uploaded two of our songs to our MySpace site. They aren't exactly our newest songs, but they're the only ones we recorded in studio quality so far.

In addition to that, we had a radio interview on the small Munich-based station Radio Feierwerk a couple of weeks ago, which is also on MySpace.

Listen to all of those things HERE, if you're interested.

music news

Anyone in Munich reading this? If yes, I'm playing a concert with my new band Affection Play, this saturday at 5 pm.
All info can be found on our MySpace page and this flyer:


There also is a (relatively) new song from my other band Synapsengeflüster, called "Eure Tage sind gezählt" (lyrics by me), which can be heard on that band's MySpace profile.
Something else I hadn't shown yet, an illustrated CD cover for the Synapsengeflüster song Der Egozentriker:

music

As some of you might know, I'm not only a comic artist, I also sing in a rock band. The name of the band is "Synapsengeflüster" and we just recorded a new song which is now available on our MySpace profile. The song is called "Der Egozentriker" (all our lyrics are in German). It's the first time I've written all of the lyrics.


We also have a website (which I designed).