Warm and Cold

It's been a wonderful warm and mild summerly since. So I picked up one of my newly comic books, which I was given as a present: Jiro Taniguchi's "Wanderer im Eis" (2004/11 - Toudo no Tabibito - The Ice Wanderer). Mainly winter settings of stories about men who live in, struggle with, learn from and cherish their surrounding pristine nature.

Well, as creativity and art lives from contrasts, this seems to be a good contrast to wonderful May, 2008 ;-)

For more information (language: German) see this Video made by the comic-affine cultural French-German TV-station "arte" here legally.

ComicFestival Hamburg 2007

06. - 09. December 2007
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wer nicht gehört wird, muss fühlen

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Zwangzig

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Haven't been drawing for days, as we are somehow busy imagining pictures of future flats ... finally came up with this anniversary-greeting-card, for someone who is already working for 20 years for the same company.
"Zwangzig" (something like "compulsion(ing)") nearly sounds like "Zwanzig" (meaning "twenty") - so connected to compulsory labour ... translating plays of words stinks ... ;-)

Negative Space

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Did some training in character design and their dynamic behaviour ... so is this one of 'em. Negative space and overlapping limbs are supposed to be the first step.

Talking about first steps and space and negative: Resuming the first weeks of spacious apartment-search: negative, Sir ... according to our budget ;-)

18metzger // 18butchers

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I yet don't know, how Olav Korth (Cologne) came up with his site's name. I only know, his comic-panels and ideas are always worth coming by once in while! He also is one of the contributors to Mamba.