THE WAR OF THE WORLDS Graphic Novel Concert

Finally! After a long time, the musician Jörg Walter and I are giving another one of our musical readings of my graphic novel adaptation of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (H.G. Wells)! This wonderful science fiction classic, which I first heard as a radio play at the age of 11,

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Let’s hit the Road!

Tomorrow we start a series of new reading concerts on my graphic novel of Jules Verne’s 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA in the Neue Schauburg Burgdorf and at the Author’s Meeting event of the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis in Wittenberg, Germany! We are sooo looking forward to that! Both evebnts are in German.

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Reading Trip to South Tyrol

In April I was on a reading trip in Bolzano, where I gave 12 readings over 5 days at various elementary and middle schools (1st-5th grade and 11-12 years). Two of them with my cat thriller OTHELLO & GIOVANNI (Südpol publishing), ten with the reading concert for my graphic novel

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Thilo at the Comicsalon Erlangen

From May 30th to June 2nd I can be found at the Comicsalon Erlangen, at the Illustrators Organization (IO) booth, which we share with the Comic Initiative in Bavaria (CiB is an organization within the IO). Our booth is A 39, in the main tent (see the stand plan –

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Merry Christmas!

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year! Take time to celebrate and reflect on what is important in your life. My thoughts are with everyone whose lives are shaken by war, grief and loss. Let us hope that we humans can learn and have the

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New Edition under the Christmas Tree

Yay! 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA got a new edition! I’m so happy that readers like my comic adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic so much. This book really has all my love in it! Maybe it’s something for you or one of your loved ones, too? Then rush to the

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Next Year Update

It’s been a whee long time since I updated you on news about my graphic novel of H.G. Wells’ THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, and I’m sorry! But that’s about to change, since I have two good news for you: The first is that the book got a new run

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Historic Department Store in Oranienburg

I’ve wanted to “portrait” this beautiful department store building – clearly inspired by the Wertheim department store in Berlin – for a long time. Here it is, the small watercolor that shows us the facade towards Bernauer Strasse in Oranienburg, Germany. The building with details in a mix of Art

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In Brussels – for the Comics, of course!

On the 25th and 26th of April, 2023, I was in Brussels at the invitation of EVA (European Visual Artists), the representation of the Collecting Societies of Europe (which care for the royalties of rights owners of copyrighted artistic material), to speak about the situation of German comic artists and

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At the Jardin des Plantes / THE LIGHTS OF PARIS

I was recently in Paris at the Jardin des Plantes, the city’s botanical gardens. The garden, originally dedicated to medicinal plants, dates back to the 17th century and was successively enlarged and expanded in its purpose. Among other things, today there is located the city’s Museum of Natural History (together

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