It’s done!
Time has come! After four years, the interior pages of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA are finished. All the pages that belong to the story and the appendix to the book, the heart of the comic, have been drawn. There will be a few more changes to come, I guess, but they won’t be too […]
GINCO Award for THE BIRTHDAY
Yeah! My short comic THE BIRTHDAY (from the anthology WER TANZT SCHON GERN ALLEIN (‘Who likes to dance alone anyway?’), Peter Hammer Publishing House) wins the GINCO Award 2021 in the category ‘Best short comic for kids’! I am very happy that teh story won a prize by a modern, inclusive award! Thanks to the […]
ÉMILE IN BERLIN awarded by 3 x 3 Mag
I´m glad to announce that my non-fiction picture book ‘Émile in Berlin’– the story takes place in the famous wertheim department store in Berlin during the 1904 Christrmas season – won a ‘Merit’ by 3×3 mag and these illustrations have been selected to be featured in their Annual No. 18!
The Final Chapter
2021 is the year in which I mainly wanted to work on 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. That planning dates back to even before the start of the corona pandemic. And you could say: such long-term planning shouldn’t cause you any problems in the pandemic, Thilo, because most people suffered from the fact that they […]
Romantic Spots on the River Havel
I’m back from vacation in Brandenburg, where we rented a boat to ride on the river Havel, starting in Brandenburg a. d. Havel and going to Rathenow. I am really overwhelmed by the beauty of the landscape in this country. There are secluded, romantic spots on the Havel, like here at Pritzerbe, where we moored […]
Idea Box
While working on WAR OF THE WORLDS, I also kept an idea box. Fittingly, this came from the time the story takes place: an old glove box cladded in green velvet. I put everything in here that – in terms of its content, shape or design – somehow inspired me for the drawings and the […]
The Underwater Guns
The rifles for the crew in 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA – which the divers carry with them on excursions underwater – are deliberately reminiscent of rifles that were also available on land, and of firearms from the time when the graphic novel and Verne’s book are set (1868). I couldn’t imagine the reader believing […]
Architecture Research England
The depiction of accurate English architecture from the time when H.G. Wells wrote THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was very important to me in the preparation and process of the graphic novel. I had always wanted that when you read the adaption, you can get the feeling that it really was England at the time […]
‘When Worlds Collide’ Book and Movie Comparison and Review
I love classic science fiction, as some of you might know. Both old science fiction novels and science fiction films from the 1950s. I recently came across a film that I particularly like: ‘When Worlds Collide’ from famous producer George Pal, who also filmed ‘The War of the Worlds’ from H.G. Wells’ famous novella which […]
The Diving Lamps
The design of the diving lamps in 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA – which the characters carry with them when diving to illuminate the waters around them – was not so easy… On the one hand, I wanted something that was reminiscent of diving gear design from the period, on the other hand, I didn’t […]