Starting 5th of june, there will be an exhibition about contemporary german newspaper strips at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Yerevan, including "Archetyp" by Ralf König, "Strizz" by Volker Reiche, and "Im Museum", the daily strip I still design together with Jan-Frederik Bandel.
From 27th of Mai to 23th of June, the Hugendubel store in Frankfurt is presenting a substantial selection of graphic novels. June 6th, Mawil, Flix, Ulrich Scheel and me will be there to present our works and answer questions.
June 6th, 14.30
Graphic novels signing and discussion
Buchhandlung Hugendubel, Steinweg 12, D-60313 Frankfurt am Main
Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
In chapter three, very strange things happen. I don't want to explain at this point of the process.
We put together the new issue of ORANG recently. The book will be published in midth-june. Part of the new collection, along with works of Arne Bellstorf(he did the cover), Anouk Ricard, Moki, Klaas Neumann, Ancco, Nadine Gerber, Verena Braun, Line Hoven, Till Thomas, Yan Cong, KAGO Shintaro and Marijpol, is a sci-fi story I did. Here you can see two pages out of four. You can order the book here.
ORANG#08
Reprodukt, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941099-23-4
120 pages, 16 in colour, 15,00 Eur
Tomorrow is the vernissage of an exhibition in the Cartoonmuseum Basel, showing works of several cartoonists, comic artists and fine artists, including some stuff of me and Kati Rickenbach (you can see her on the left, working on a picture for the Cartoonmuseum).
Cartoonmuseum Basel
"Erotik" - 29.04. - 27.09.2009
Vernissage 28.04., 18 Uhr
Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
I feel a little embarassed about this, but in chapter two of the book, the main character gets a new haircut.
At the literature festival "Vattenfall Lesetage" in Hamburg, Peter Gaymann and me will have a conversation with moderator Andreas Platthaus at the Museum für Kommunikation. I guess we will talk about our work(??). But I don't know...
April 21, 19:00
Von Hühnern und Kaninchen
Museum für Kommunikation
Gorch-Fock-Wall 1
20354 Hamburg
Here comes the second edition of our flyer about graphic novels, with a brandnew cover. The flyer contains information about graphic novels published by Reprodukt, Carlsen, Edition Moderne, Cross Cult, Edition 52 and Avant Verlag. You can download it here.
Beginning of April, some german artists will visit the small comic festival in Bastia. Matthias Schneider organized an exhibition containing works of ATAK, Arne Bellstorf, Anke Feuchtenberger, Armin Abmeier, Line Hoven and me.
April 02.-05.
BD à Bastia 2009
Arcades du Théâtre, rue César Campinchi
F-20200 Bastia
Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
Here is one new page of the book. As you can see, the guys talk a lot in this scene (they say stupid things about philosophy, not interesting at all, but necessary to learn about how they think).
After having a lot of troublesome time with the work on this graphic novel, during the last two weeks I somehow reached a point where the work became more fluently. I was always uncertain about the look of the characters and had little time to concentrate for a longer period than a couple of days to solve this problem. I don't know why, but apparently the doubts and bad feelings disappeared. So the only thing I have to do now is to draw the 60 missing pages, hooray!
Our dear friend W. Kaninchen will read a part of his autobiography at the bookfair in Leipzig. Excerpts of his thrilling memories have been published in our daily newspaper strip "Im Museum". W. Kaninchen will be introduced by literature expert Dr. Jan-Frederik Bandel.
March 12th, 12:30 to 13:00
W. Kaninchen liest aus "Im Museum" von Jan-Frederik Bandel und Sascha Hommer
Leseinsel Junger Verlage, Hall 5, Booth E200
Here is another advertisement sticker I did for Strapazin. Okay, I should stop to do this and go back to work on "Vier Augen".
Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
Now the funny part of the work on my book begins: I have to visualize LSD experiences.
This is what I recently did for Strapazin. One postcard and one advertisement sticker.
Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
Here are some impressions from the beginning of chapter two.
Two things: On 13th November I will do signing at the comicshop X-TRA-BOOX in Frankfurt. I will be there from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
On Friday the 21st of November we will have a comic release party in the beautiful independant gallery Hinterconti in Hamburg. Exhibition will start 8 p.m. Also the famous writer W. Kaninchen (you can see him on the picture) might follow our invitation.
13.11. X-TRA-BOOX Signing
16:00 - 18:00
X-TRA-BOOX, Berliner Strasse 20, 60311 Frankfurt
21.11. "Im Museum" Release Party
Beginning 8 p.m.
Hinterconti, Marktstrasse 40, 20357 Hamburg
Previews of my book "Vier Augen"
It took quite a while, but finally I finished chapter one of the book. Two more chapters will follow. I promise to be faster with my drawings for chapter two and three.
A first collection of our daily strip "Im Museum", published by Reprodukt, will be presented at the Frankfurt book fair this october. Here are four already translated episodes and also some general information about the book.
Synopsis: A girl and a boy are locked up inside a museum. As they begin to explore the rooms of the building, they realize that the museum is of tremendous size and contains very strange exhibitions, creatures and settings. The two kids get to know a prehistoric insect, Charles Manson, Ernst Jünger, Meat Loaf, Fidel Castro, Pacman and other central characters of history. In our translated episodes they meet a pixel smurf...(click on the episodes to enlarge)
The "Frankfurter Rundschau": The Frankfurter Rundschau is a national (German) newspaper, published everyday but Sunday. It is considered to be liberal. Along to their change to a smaller tabloid size in May 2007, the Rundschau also wanted to start a daily comic strip. That's why comic expert Christian Schlüter asked me to think about a concept. I asked Jan-Frederik Bandel to join the project. He agreed and so finally this thing started.
Work on the strip and concept: Since we are working for a comparatively large audience, we figured that it would be a good idea to arrange the story as cryptic as possible. Very often the "jokes" are only comprehensible if you recognize a quotation from literature, pop culture or if you use online search engines to find out about hidden meanings. Furthermore we considered illogicalness to be very funny and therefore tried to spread hints that lead to nowhere. After all, our strip is located on a page with brainteasers and similar stuff, so it also should be fair to puzzle the readers.
The contributers: The book contains a preliminary note by the German writer Brigitte Kronauer and an afterword by Frank Witzel. Jan-Frederik Bandel, who is writing the text for the strips, is a specialist in German studies.
Dates:
Friday, 17th october
12:00 "Im Museum" Signing
Frankfurt book fair, comic-centre
19:00 "Im Museum" bookrelease
Dialogmuseum, Hanauer Landstraße 137-145, Frankfurt am Main (see flyer above)
Saturday, 18th october,
12:00 "Im Museum" Signing
Frankfurt book fair, comic-centre
15:00 "Im Museum" discussion with Christian Schlüter, Sascha Hommer, Jan-Frederik Bandel
Bookfair booth of the Frankfurter Rundschau (H3.0/B157)
17:00 "Im Museum" Signing
Frankfurt book fair, comic-centre
The book:
Im Museum
Reprodukt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-941099-00-5
144 pages in colour, 18,00 Eur
