Hipsters illustration

I've recently bought MangaStudio (EX 4) and wanted to try it out a little, so I drew some of the Hipsters characters from my webcomic:

Hipsters Vs. Zombies

I spent some time yesterday establishing a new and improved archive section on the website of my webcomic Hipsters. In this archive, you can quickly find (almost) all of my Hipsters comic storylines in chronological order. On that occasion, I decided to finally upload an English version of my second-ever Hipsters story "Hipsters Vs. Zombies" from 2010, originally published in JAZAM! vol. 5. You can read the entire comic for free and in English right now by clicking on the image below:

HIPSTERS vs. Robots pts. 23 & 24

Two double strips from the last three weeks! Here you go:

German version of pt. 23 & German version of pt. 24

Interview for fudder.de

A couple of weeks ago, Christopher Bünte (of Comicgate) interviewed me about my Hipsters comics for the website fudder.de. You can read said interview (in German) now by clicking on the image below:

Babble & Doodle

Two weeks ago, I was invited to record an episode of Beetlebum, Jeff, and Doppeltim's cool new video podcast "Babble & Doodle". It's a very fun format that allows you to listen to us babble on about comics, life, and other stuff, while watching us draw new installments of our respective webcomics. Watch it now:

JAZAM! vol. 8

There's a new volume of German indie comics anthology JAZAM! coming out next june and we just announced the topic, which is "animals". Do you want to participate with your own comic? READ HERE how you can do that.

You can order previous issues at our shop or at Kwimbi.

HIPSTERS vs. Robots pts. 20 & 21 & 22

Here's three new Hipsters comics for you! There is still lots more to come from those pesky brobots!

German version of pt. 20 & German version of pt. 21 & German version of pt. 22

HIPSTERS vs. Robots pts. 18 & 19

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to finish a lot of Hipsters strips in the last couple of weeks, mostly due to a lot of work. However, my timetable looks a bit less crowded now and I should be able to get the comic out a little more regularly in the next few weeks. Here are the last two strips:

German version of pt. 18 & German version of pt. 19

"2013, Fuck Yeah!" calendar

A few weeks ago, webcartoonista extraordinaire Schlogger came up with the idea of a calendar featuring all the coolest German webcomic artists. (two per month!) I'm proud to have been asked to participate and even got my birth month october. Here's a preview of my illustration:

You can order the calendar right now at Kwimbi. It's just €10!

More info, including a full list of the 26 (!) participating artists and David Füleki's cool cover image, can be found right here at Schlogger's blog.

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:

24h comic "Infiltrated" (English version)

As I promised last weekend, I spent the last week translating my recent 24h comic into English. Click on the page below to start reading my creepy little body-horror story:

The German version continues to be available at MyComics.de

Also, check out my last post for links to some of the other 24h comics by my pals from the Weimar event.

HIPSTERS vs. Robots pts. 15 & 16 & 17

There were some delays in this bunch, but also a very special strip! Well, the strip itself wasn't that special (or at least not any more special than usual), but it was my 100th Hipsters webcomic strip! Yay! Here you go:

German versions: pt. 15 & pt. 16 & pt. 17

24h Comic "Infiltriert" (German version)

I've finally completed the comic I drew at the 24h Comic Day in Weimar last weekend. While I wrote and drew all 24 pages in the 24h timespan, I've added digital grey-shading in the last couple of days. I think it turned out pretty okay, even though the sleep deprivation and exhaustion probably shows in some places. (and in the weird-ass story)

Click on the 1st page to go to MyComics.de and read the entire 24-page comic:

So far, the comic is only available in German. I'll probably publish an English translation in a week or so.

Some other 24h comics from the Weimar event:
Doppeltim
Flausen
Beetlebum
Pete
Jeff Chi
Kathi Netolitzky
Dirk Wachsmuth
Steffen
(I'll add more as they show up online)

24h Comic Day 2012

These past two days, I was in Weimar, participating in Schwarzer Turm's 24h Comic Day event. In case you don't know, the 24h Comic Day (as invented by Scott McCloud) is a day on which cartoonists all over the world spend 24 consecutive hours trying to draw at least 24 comic pages. It's a pretty tough challenge, but I finally decided to give it a try this year and joined Beetlebum, Doppeltim, Jeff Chi, Pete, Lapinot, Kathi, Yinfinity, Flausen-Ulf, and many others in Weimar to do this. And wouldn't you know it, I (and a few others) actually succeeded! I managed to write and draw a complete 24-page comic and even had some time to spare at the end. I'm not sure if the comic is actually any good (it's pretty weird and yucky), but it feels good to have made it, anyway.

It's going to take me a few days to scan and clean up all the pages, but until then, you can have a look at the complete comic as it hung on the wall shortly after I'd finished it:

HIPSTERS vs. Robots pts. 13 & 14

German version of pt. 13 & German version of pt. 14