Author: Thilo Krapp

The Smidgens

Published by EDEL KIDS BOOKSWritten by David O’Connell, book cover by Thilo Krapp, 12,99 € (D), HC, 220 p.ISBN: 978-3-96129-233-2 Gafferty Sprout is frustrated! There seems no future for her tiny people, barely bigger than a thumb, who live under a small Scottish city in a hive, hunting for food in local townsfolk shops and […]

In the Elevator with Einstein

Published by Arena publishing houseJürgen Teichmann (Author), Thilo Krapp (Illustrator), 9 € (D), SC (the bigger HC currently only available through antiquarian bookshops), 136 p.ISBN: 978-3-401-50249-6 This book illustrates simple to complex physical phenomena so that everyone understands them. For more than 30 years, author Jürgen Teichmann was a director of the ‘Education and Further […]

Merry Christmas!

Wishing all my clients, friends and colleagues a Merry Christmas, a relaxed time ‘inbetween the years’ (as we say here in Germany) and a happy new year! I look forward to seeing each other again in 2022, safe and sound!

Christmas is just around the corner…

Important announcement from Santa Claus 🙂 ! ÉMILE IN BERLIN – MOUSE HUNT IN THE BIG STORE (Gerstenberg Publishing House) is the ideal Santa Claus or Christmas present for children aged 8+ who want to delve into pictures and read a fast-paced story. Winter 1904/05: Émile and his mother visit Berlin to see the famous […]

The War of the Worlds Graphic Novel German Color Edition

Published by Carlsen ComicsH.G. Wells (Author, abridged and translated by Thilo Krapp), Thilo Krapp (Illustrator), Colors by Xavi M. Montell, 18 € (D), 18,50 € (A), SC, 136 p.ISBN: 978-3-551-78169-7 The new German edition of my graphic novel adaption of H.G. Wells’ famous novella by Carlsen! Strange explosions occur on Mars, noticed by some experts, […]

WAR OF THE WORLDS new German EDITION at Carlsen Comics

For the new German edition of my graphic novel based on H.G. Wells THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, publisher Carlsen and I agreed on a translation of the colored French edition from summer 2020, which was published by Steinkis / Éditions Jungle. For this French edition, the original version, which Egmont published in sepia tones […]

Art Nouveau in Dortmund

Art Nouveau houses in Alexanderstraße in Dortmund, Germany. This is a type of house that was popular around 1900 with builders who wanted to build several homes for themselves (together with relatives/company co-owners/friends), but directly connected so that the distances between the dwelling parties were short. And of course it was easier to build firewall […]

Cast Iron Architecture

For 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, I researched a lot of steel and iron architecture and their principles in order to design the appropriate look inside the ‘Nautilus’. I am a big fan of it, and its aesthetics. Growing up in Northrhine-Westfalia in Germany, an – before its redevelopment – industrialized area, I was surrounded […]