Some of the narrative drawing pieces, done for the RADAR show in Poznan/Poland at the 3rd LIGATURA Festival. We (TONTO Comics + UNKRAUT Comics, along the works of Heinz Wolf, Thomas Kriebaum, Michael Hacker and Nicolas Mahler) were on site to check everything out, show our mugs and also represent for the Austrian artists and Comics scene. All in firm and serious manouver of course. Please click for better readability.
Below is the exhibition poster by TONTO’s Helmut Kaplan, taken from the Huntress Hole story in the NORDPOL book. There is a catalog for the show, with many of the works from us – you can read up on the introduction essay, with this entry on the UNKRAUT COMICS PAGE, if you dig German, that is. LIGATURA.eu
The Hallowed Halls of Comicdom! In Poland, they know how to treat artists! Austria, take a gander at that, will ya?
The opening reception, with some of the invited artists and bearers of prices on board: Bart Nijstad, who presented his outstanding Mukken book, Matei Branea and many of the very friendly Ligatura crew around Anna Souska and Michal Slomka. Good to see you guys!
Part of the show was to present the new Tonto book #13 NOISE, which we got fresh from the printers. Above are some of the pages of the book, including work by Igor Hofbauer, Pakito Bolino, Norbert Gmeindl, Kai Pfeiffer, Helmut Kaplan and me. The new book also marks our collaboration with German publisher AVANT VERLAG, which will handle German/Swiss distribution and press, which we’re very pleased with. Here’s a snap of the cover:
The britsh delegation stormed the festival with unseen presence and very exalting works at hand: Rose Robbins had the fabulous DOG COMICS collection with her and presented her new book at the pitching. Actually naming everyone of the group and their work, would bust the frames of this post even further, but rest assured, you’ll hear more from these folks VERY soon. You could check the NOBROW organized ELCAF fest in June for example.
Friends KUS! were there as well of course – here having a cigarette with Madam Anke Feuchtenberger who showed beautiful, large charcoal drawings at the festival – It was good hangin out with David, Sanita and the lot again. Zapikanka and all for the flavor! Here’s some party buzz, we talk fast!
The whole Programm, in English, HERE.
A private commission from 2011, with some details below. As always, please click the picture for the real thing.
This would have been the start of a feature in a local Comicshop, showcasing either newly released or standout Comics and books on a regular monthly basis with the backdrop of a specially done drawing. Here we went for Michelangelo Setola’s fantastic BAR MIKI from 2008. The whole project didn’t come together, as the store went for a different direction altogether. So here goes.
The ComicKunst 4 show at gallery Maerz has closed on Sunday the 18th and with it my part, ROT – here are some of the drawings from there. First off, two small ones from the DESTRUCTION EVERY DAY series: “Ain’t it always that way?” & “New Heat.”
Following are two of the large format ink paintings, both 1m by 1,40m in size: “DAMPFER” & “WHAT’S BEEN AND WHATS DONE” I have yet to do propper repro photography, but click the ones below for a larger version please.
Me, doing some last adjustments to the framed SHADOW SHOW “pages” and drawings. Linz was rad over all: Great shows by the SPRING collective out of Hamburg/Berlin/Germany at OÖ Kunstraum. Home Sweet Home at the Salzamt, with many amazing works from German artists and a selection of Nigel Peake’s beautiful originals. Aisha Franz kicked ass at the KAPU with her show WELCOME TO MIAMI – and Sorina, Aisha and I did some DJing and exploded heads/hearts on Saturday with good tunes. Maybe, I’ll get around to draw some of the things that happened, let’s see.
Tonto’s BOHREN IN WELT was also featured at the OK Center. Let’s hope that next year, the OK will open it’s doors to become the full slated Festival center, hosting more shows of the Festival and giving it even more space.
If I sound like someone who gives nonstop applause here, it’s because I really enjoyed all the stuff I saw and experienced – No critical substance, sorry! NATCH!
Literary magazine Blumenfresser from Germany asked artists from Germany, Croatia and Austria to contribute drawings and narrative work to their 2012 edition – here are my two drawings, based on two great poems by Ron Winkler (you can read GESANG DER FEEN in German HERE).
Michael Jordan screenprinted the cover for it, you can see it here!
From March 8th to 17th you can see the drawings exhibited at Zagrebs Goethe Institut, Blumenfresser editor Michael Jordan and Tonto Comics folks Dead Strobl and Kaplan also were on site at the opening. Plus Comics wizz Aisha Franz had a live drawing session there – so lot’s of fun was to be had (watch out for her rad new book BRIGITTE, out in May!). More details on the GOETHE page HERE.
Two quick drawn cards I did to send along with other things.
Hey everyone! I’m glad to announce, that this year will see a number of Comics related things coming out from me. Let’s start with the Web shall we?
- Coming in late March, I will have my first Web Comic thing out, called DOT DOT DOT – SHORTS AND BITS. For now, it will be published in weekly installments on my Blog, right here. The runtime will be around a year, until somewhere around March 2013. The setting is based on DotDotDot’s explorations, entertainment and silliness. It will be told through short narrative blurbs and slabs of sketchy drawings, coming from a stream of consciousness way of working. Which is actually the way I found to function best for me as well as the DotDotDot character’s world. It’s the first DDD related drawing I did in half a year and I’m looking forward to do more with it. Above you can see the “cover” of said thing and some sketch to go.
- I’m also happy to tell, that there will be a longer work in straight narrative fashion in the fall of 2012, called STORY OF PARENT AND CHILD. News on an exact publishing date and form is to follow sometime in summer – for the while, here is the first colored (!) promo drawing on it and a sketch.
- As of March 12, the new issue of KUSH – SEA STORIES will be out, I hereby report, that I have a 7 page story in it. It’s about two drop outs living on a secluded beach town at off season …that maybe lasts forever. You can get it here! KUSH is a higly recommended Comics anthology from Riga, bringing a lot of people together thru hard work and good spirit – and all that way before they won the Angouleme thing this year – congrats again!!
