Ferne Welten #1

Another comic book coming out in Erlangen is the first issue of the new science fiction magazine "Ferne Welten". It's an interesting project, publishing prose short stories as well as comics. The book has 68 pages and will cost 5 €.


It was first supposed to come out more than a year ago but was delayed until now. That's also why the comic I contibuted is already pretty old now. I drew it almost two years ago (originally for another magazine) and already showed the first page on this blog. Here's another page, though:

Vorletzte Geräusche

Besides JAZAM! vol. 5, a couple more books are coming out at the Comicsalon Erlangen 2010 that have some stuff by me in them. I'm gonna introduce them here one by one in the coming days.

The first one's "Vorletzte Geräusche", a cartoon book about the second-to-last noises that can be heard before someone gets killed. I contains cartoons by 50 different artists, including me.


Details: 96 pages, hardcover, b/w, 15 x 15 cm. Price: 10 €
ISBN 978-3-00-030867-3
Weildarum-Verlag

JAZAM! vol. 5

Finally: the new volume of the great German comics anthology JAZAM! is ready for pre-ordering. It can be ordered at our online shop or bought at the Comicsalon Erlangen next week.
I contributed the 9-page comic "Hipsters vs. Zombies" and did the layout and design, as usual. The cover was painted once again by the talented Daniela Uhlig. Behold:

Faster Than Fiction

The online comic magazine INKplosion just published their third 'flash fiction' special. Said issue contains a comic with art by yours truly, written by Roman Senkl & Marco Müller. This is it:


Read the whole issue here. (in German) It contains some very nice pages by several of my fellow JAZAM! artists.

test pages

For about half a year I've been working on my first graphic novel, the first part of which is going to be my bachelor thesis. I haven't completely finished any actual pages, but I drew two "test pages" a few months ago to find a suitable style. A bunch of things have changed since then and the two pages will not actually be part of the comic, but I'd like to show them here anyway.

G.I. Joe

Last month, I inked this kick-ass retro cover for G.I. Joe Origins #15 (IDW). Pencils by Klaus Scherwinski, colors by Levin Kurio. It's my first U.S. publication!

ink panel

An inked version of the pencil panel I posted a couple of days ago. You'd be right if you guessed this has something to do with the Munich Oktoberfest, but I'm not gonna tell you yet what exactly this is for.

Next time: colors.

they live!

some drawings from my last two life drawing sessions.

pencil panel

I'm at work on a lot of different projects right now (predominantly JAZAM! vol. 5 and my BA thesis), but can't really show a lot yet. One thing I can share right now is this pencil panel from a short comic I'm currently working on. It's an interesting project but I'm not gonna tell you yet what it is... :)

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.

Comicstars

Two of my comics are now available on Comicstars.de, an interesting portal for digital comics.

The first one is "Rumpel Styler" from 2006, my contribution to the very first volume of JAZAM!, which has been out of print for a while. This one's for free.

READ IT HERE

The other one is Hipsters vs. Monsters, my minicomic from last year. This one's gonna set you back 89 ct., which is a bargain if you ask me.

BUY IT HERE

I still have a couple of the printed ones left, if anyone's interested. Just order them by e-mail.

2-page preview from "Hipsters vs. Zombies"

These are two of the nine comic pages of the quasi-sequel to "Hipsters vs. Monsters". The new story ist going to be published in JAZAM! vol. 5 (theme: "Night Life") in june. I'm almost finished with the comic, working on the final page right now.

Zombies!

I'm working on a sequel to my mini comic "Hipsters vs. Monsters", which will be published as a 9-page comic in JAZAM! vol. 5, due out in june 2010. The above is a little teaser image.

Sam

Lots of self portraits around here lately. About time I drew someone else again! Like, for example, a character from one of my favourite movies...

This is Sam Lowry from Brazil:


And the pencil sketch:

more presents

These two were also christmas presents. One for my mother:

And one for my flat mates:

The pencil sketch for the latter one:

Happy new year, everyone!