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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!
20,000 Leagues under the Sea Cover
Here’s a small updated preview of the book jacket illustration for my upcoming 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA graphic novel (Carlsen).
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 […]
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 […]
Watercolor Study
A small watrercolor study I did on one of the past weekends.
Paris Sketches
I paid a short visit to Paris in September. Here are a few sketches I’ve been able to make in the short amount of time I’ve had.
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 […]