Adrian vom Baur - comics, illustrations, and other art stuff

Monday, June 23, 2014

Erlangen report 2014

I'm back from Internationaler Comic-Salon Erlangen - tired, but happy. The festival was amazing, even more so than usually! I had a brilliant time with all of the wonderful comics people, sold & signed dozens of Hipsters and JAZAM! books, did a live reading of 'Hipsters in Hell' (with Schlogger), fought an epic art battle (against Schlogger), bought cool comics, rocked my socks off on the dance floor with some of my favorite cartoonists, drank too much, slept too little, and then continued the festival business anyway. In short: I had a blast. Creative batteries fully charged.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Comic-Salon Erlangen 2014

Starting this thursday, I'll be at Comic-Salon Erlangen, Germany's biggest, best, and most important comics event.

Most of the time, you'll be able to find me at the JAZAM!/Mondo booth (no. 42):

Here are some specific dates at which I'll be signing JAZAM!'s and Hipsters books:

Thursday:
at JAZAM! (42): 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
at Zwerchfell (97): 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Friday:
at JAZAM! (42): 10:00 am - 11:00 am
at Comic Solidarity (80): 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Saturday:
at JAZAM! (42): 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
at Zwerchfell (97): 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Sunday:
at JAZAM! (42): 11:00 am - 1:00 pm | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

On Friday night, there will also be a short live reading of part of "Hipsters in Hell," which Schlogger and I are doing at the BITSTORM event at the Dartmoor Inn. As part of this, I will also be involved in some kind of "Comic Battle." Find out more at the BITSTORM website.

If you want to stay informed about everything that's going on while I'm there (likely including drunk tweets and comic jams), you should follow me on Twitter!

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Angry Birds Epic and other games

I don't know if I've mentioned this around here before, but my day job consists mainly of drawing/painting/designing stuff for video games. The release of the latest (and, to date, biggest) game I've worked on, Angry Birds Epic, seemed like a good opportunity to point you to some of the other games I have contributed to over the last couple of years. For most of these, I have done a mix of user interface design, characters, backgrounds, and icons/items. In all but one case (Apnoe), the art direction wasn't done by me and I therefore had very little influence on the style and overall look of the games. But since the guy who art-directed most of these games is really good, that's not so bad.

Mobile Games

These are all iTunes links. Most of these are also available for Android and other systems, but I'm too lazy right now to look up the links.

Angry Birds Epic
Demolition Dash
Happy Hills
Happy Hills 2: Bombs Away!
John Woo's BloodStroke
Hoppetee!
Sara's Cooking Class
Sara's Cooking Class: Vacation
Towers & Dungeons
Word Wonders: The Tower of Babel
Apnoe

Browser Games

Warstory: Europe in Flames
Aktiv mit MS - kognitives Training
Bands
Skylancer: Battle for Horizon (offline)
Mission: Genesis (offline)

I'm totally addicted to Angry Birds Epic right now, so I'd absolutely recommend that you at least check that one out - even if you're not a fan of the previous Angry Birds games. I think the Happy Hills games, Bloodstroke, Word Wonders, and Towers & Dungeons are also well worth looking at if you like casual games.

Friday, June 13, 2014

my new comics

Here’s how you can buy my new comics:

JAZAM! vol. 9 - Helden: Kwimbi | JAZAM!
HIPSTERS versus…: Kwimbi | JAZAM! | Amazon.de
C’est Angoulême, bitches!: Kwimbi
cool stickers: only in Erlangen

At Kwimbi, all of the books come with a signature and drawing!

The Hipsters book should also be available in German comic shops soon. Please ask your dealer to order it if they haven't already!

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

HIPSTERS vs. Helmut the Psycho Killer

Wha… another Hipsters comic?!

This one-off strip is actually a guest comic for Christopher Tauber & Ingo Römling’s cool horror parody webcomic Survivor Girl (which you should totally check out), but I think it also works on its own.

German version

Monday, May 19, 2014

HIPSTERS - the book

Now that I'm done with the Hipsters webcomic, I'm putting out the whole thing (the German version) as an 80-page softcover book, which you can now pre-order at Kwimbi.

You can also order "C'est Angoulême, bitches!", by the way.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

HIPSTERS in Hell, pts. 51 & 52 & 53 & 54 - The End.

Coming up next: Hipsters in Space! – Nah, I’m just messing with you. This was actually my last Hipsters strip ever!

For now, anyway.

I’m actually doing a Hipsters guest comic for another webcomic that I’m going to post here and there’s a possibility that I’m going to occasionally do stand-alone Hipsters strips if I get any good ideas.

The reason I don’t want to continue with the regular Hipsters webcomic right now is simply that I feel there are only so many hipster jokes you can make, and I’ve probably made most of them a couple of times by now. Also, I want to try some new and different things. There’s a good chance that I’ll start either a new webcomic or a graphic novel project within the next couple of months, so please continue to follow this blog (+ my Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.) if you want to stay up-to-date about my future projects.

German version of pt. 51 & German version of pt. 52 & German version of pt. 53 & German version of pt. 54

Friday, April 18, 2014

C'est Angoulême, bitches!

When a group of my friends and I went to the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême in January, we spent a lot of our time there drawing an epic comic jam chronicling our experiences, enhanced by some fictional elements (massive monster cats, magical baguettes, the like). Because we really liked how the comic turned out, we reworked it a little bit, drew a nifty cover illustration, and made it into a cool little pamphlet, which we will be selling at ComicInvasionBerlin next weekend.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

24h Comic Day 2014.1

Yesterday and today, I participated in my third 24h Comic Day event in Leipzig, once again producing 24 comic pages in less than 24 hours. (21h, to be precise.) I'll scan the story and clean it up once I'm done with JAZAM! and Hipsters, but here's a preview of the original pages:

A closer look at the first three pages:

And this is me after drawing for 20+ hours:

(photo by Dimitar Stoykow)

Monday, April 7, 2014

Super Realtor

My work on JAZAM! is probably going to keep me too busy to do a new Hipsters strip this week. But while you wait, you can have a look at the first page of my JAZAM! comic. It’s a 5-page superhero comic set in the exciting world of real estate! (the title translates to “Super Realtor”)