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january 4th, 2012
ANIMATION - The Carbon Cycle
and a happy new year to all of you!
for many weeks i have been working on an animation for ORO VERDE, and now it is finally finished - in FULL HD, mind you!
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october 20th, 2011
BONNi & BO - Billboards
thanks to a big advertisement campaign by the STIFTUNG BONNER KLIMABOTSCHAFTER ("Foundation Climate-Embassadors Bonn") BONNi & BO-posters can be seen in large billboards along the main roads at 35 locations all over bonn this week.
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october 11th, 2011
LOVE HOWEVER YOU PLEASE - Poster Campaign
a few months ago i drew a series of posters for a provocative campaign on homosexuality called "LIEBE WIE DU WILLST - 'LOVE HOWEVER YOU PLEASE'" for the city of giessen, which aims to inform teenagers about the extensive service available in town - and to inform society about the problem of exclusion and condemnation. (click on the images to enlarge)
unfortunately, most responses are in german, but here is the link-list anyways:
DKP QUEER published an interesting article on the topic; there is a PODCAST , and the JUNGE LIBERALE speak in favor of the campaign.
as would be expected, it is the reactions from the christian front that take the biscuit:
CHRISTLICHES INFORMATIONSZENTRUM
KATH.NET - Katholische Nachrichten
there was even an ONLINE PETITION against the CAMPAIGN, signed by 3385idiotspeople!
quite the contrast in the gay community:
QUEER.DE
SAMSTAG IST EIN GUTER TAG - Der schwule Blog
maybe it is time for another campaign to welcome all our fellow human beings into the 21st century!
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october 3rd, 2011
the STIFTUNG BONNER KLIMABOTSCHAFTER was present with BONNi & BO and free comix about climate protection during the huge germany fest in bonn.
here is yours truely next to mr. Reske, the director of the bonn citizens' foundation (BÜRGERSTIFTUNG BONN), and his assistants mr. Scholz und mrs Gutheil.
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june 22nd, 2011
i recieved more mail: a whole pile of colorful letters from class 3A of the GOTTFRIED KINKEL ELEMTARY SCHOOL in oberkassel, which i visited some days ago to draw BONNi & BO! and it seems i can soon give up my job, because the kids of class 3A are almost better comic-book artists than i am!
THANKS, DEAR CLASS 3A!!
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june 8th, 2011
today i visited class 3A of the GOTTFRIED KINKEL ELEMTARY SCHOOL in oberkassel, and after drawing BONNi & BO together, we had an exciting talk about the correlation between deforestation in the amazon and cheap meat in german supermarkets.
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juni 6th, 2011
the winner of the BONNi&BO idea contest is a young girl called funda wgo visits the third grade at the CARL SCHURZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in bonn-tannenbusch. her eyes grew huge when mr. reske, the director of the bonn citizens' foundation (BÜRGERSTIFTUNG BONN), and i handed her an original drawing of BONNi&BO.
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june 4th, 2011
i could hardly believe my eyes when i opened my mail today:
each child of the class 3C of the GOTTFRIED KINKEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in oberkassel wrote me a personal letter with some great drawings to thank me for my visit and short drawing class! the nicest quote: "actually i only like soccer. now i also like to draw bo!"
THANKS, DEAR CLASS 3C!!
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may 27th 2011
my tv interview with CENTER.TV produced a small creative side-project in the form of a nice short video about özi at work.
- thanks, sophie!
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may 19th, 2011
today, 19th of may 2011, at 19:55h, as part of the programm "för üch", you can watch a short article about the foundation BONNER KLIMABOTSCHAFTER and my comic BONNi&BO on CENTER.TV - including a glimpse into my office.
the programm will later be available in the ARCHIVE.
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may 17th, 2011
today i visited class 3C of the oberkassel elementary school, to draw BONNi&BO with 20 enthusiastic little environmentalists, and to brainstorm some ideas for the next edition of the comic.
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april 14th, 2011
i created and drew a comic about "bonni", the lion from bonn, and his new friend "bo", a polar bear, for the BONNER KLIMABOTSCHAFTER-foundation.
this comic will be published in the BONNiLive-magazine, which is distributed to all elementary school students in bonn in an edition of 13.000 four times per year, and on the WEBSITE of the foundation.
and of course right here (click the image):
- december 24th, 2010
MERRY CHRISTMAS, everyone!
- december 17th, 2010
in cooperation with ORO VERDE and their programme BECAUSE WE ARE WORTH IT! i have planned and orchestrated a comic-project-week about the topic of rainforest deforestation and cheap meat for the enthusiastic students of class 5b of the theodor-litt-secondary-school in bonn-endenich this week.
the result is this colorful comic, a collage of drawings and costume-photos, which the kids then handed out in town, thereby educating passers-by about the relationship between rainforest-deforestation and cheap meat (click the image).
during this project i also made this animation (click the image).
- november 22nd, 2010
as part of ORO VERDE's programme BECAUSE WE ARE WORTH IT! i visited the project group "DIE BO(O)TSCHAFTLER" in the 9th grade of the august-macke-school in bonn to give them a little crashcourse in "drawing rainforests" today. the kids will paint self-built canoes - and i am curious to see the final results!
- october 31st, 2010
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
- october 7th, 2010
had a fun hour of "drawing halloween stuff" with my mom's class at st.-georg-elementary school, goch, today!
- september 27th, 2010
on several occasions in the past i have supported AMPHIBIAN ARK, a worldwide programm for the protection of endangered amphibians, with illustrations.
now amphibian ark is offering a new PLATFORM for interested artists to present their work.
part of the money gained from projects commissioned via this platform will be donated to the organisazion.
- august 27th, 2010
in the beginning of this week i have given a crashcours on drawing comics as part of a childrens' project in the BEETHOVEN HOUSE BONN (and did learn quite a lot about bonn's most famous son myself on the occasion!). today i visited the small vernissage to see the finished works of the talented participants of the course.
- june 8th, 2010
my drawing of a modern-day retro-futuristic hommage to barbarella for NEATORAMA (called "neatorella") sparked quite an interesting discussion about "sexist cartooning". the joy is in the COMMENTS.
- may 24th, 2010
i am happy to be able to make a small contribution to the fascinating work of the CHARLES DARWIN RESEARCH STATION on the galapagos with my illustrations. when visiting the station this year in march i was duely impressed by the breeding and succesful conservation of the giant land tortoises.
the first drawing will decorate the park-guides' news board in the visitors' center, and more are to come.
- may 18th, 2010
every day from may 31st to june 4th, at 19:30 o'clock, episodes of "ohne geld bis ans ende der welt"
("with no money to the end of the word") by MICHAEL WIGGE
will run on ZDF neo (or you can watch them all in sequence on june 5th at 14:45 o'clock).
michael travelled with no money from berlin to antartica and filmed himself doing so. whenever the camera was not at hand or filming was prohibited, my animations fill the gaps.
the entire series will also appear on dvd soon, on sale for example at AMAZON.
hit PLAY to see the animation!
- may 12th, 2010
ANA LUIZA KOEHLER has pointed out a scary fact to me: there are TWO of me!! ("us"?)
my clone is called EDUARDO MEDEIROS, lives in porto alegre in brazil and draws very beautiful illustrations and comix.
of course i immediately got in contact with him, and we agree on this: THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!
this calls for an artists' duel!!
- march 29th, 2010
brazilian night at the illustrators-of-bonn-meeting - starring ANA LUIZA KOEHLER from porto alegre (all the way on the right - artist of the beautiful album AWRAH), and live from são paulo via skype: proficient business woman and drawing busybee ROSY MAC QUEEN.
- march 18th, 2010
shortly before our return from quito back to germany we managed to meet with ein treffen mit GONZALO RIZZO. amazing, how much you can learn from a good teacher in a 30 minutes flash-crash-course! gonzalo produces a lot of beautiful animations, some even for ecuadorian TV - and to make matters better, he is also a rather nice guy!
- march 9th, 2010
another article about the humboldt-exhibit in quito in the journal "el comercio"
- february 22nd, 2010
a big article about my humboldt-exhibit in quito in the ecuadorian journal "la hora"
- february 20th, 2010
this weekend i gave a workshop about the medium comic to 15 very interested and rather talented ecuadorian participants, among them unter anderem WILO, GONZALO RIZZO, CARLOS GRANJA ROBALINO, DARIO GUERRERO and the other creatives of ¡ELÉ!-magazine, and many others with exciting ideas and much creative potential.
i would be happy to some day in the future work together with these great artists!
- february 10th, 2010
opening night in quito went well. generally the images are met with great interest. here are some photos of the opening:
f.l.t.r.: annette becker (tina's intern), tina gleich (culture-coordinator of
the asociación humboldt), mr. berger (the german embassador in quito),
moi, bettina kühn (director of the asociación humboldt), simon gleich
(cultural functionary of the german embassy), and my lovely elli
mr. berger, the german embassador, tells
me about his encounter with a hoazinth
here is a 360o-panoramic view of the exhibit:
- january 29th, 2010
it is done: 20 posters about alexander von humboldt's journey through south america for an exhibition in quito, ecuador, comissioned by the german embassy of quito. i will fly to ecuador for the opening night of the exhibition, will give some workshops there and then do a documentation of an ORO VERDE project in SARAYACU. and after that, i want to go to galapagos, snorcheling with iguanas!
here's a small preview of some of the posters:
- december 20th, 2009
new logo for FROG MATCH MAKER - a list of conservation projects worldwide, comissioned by AMPHIBIAN ARK.
- september 23rd, 2009
once a month i am looking forward to creative exchange, amusing talking shop and personally-being-present-in-the-same-room (and not only on the phone or online) with the ILLUSTRATORS BONN, namely JUSTO, li'l ol' me, and the ODENTHAL BROS., torsten and carsten.
- september 15th, 2009
soon the second edition of the oro verde jungle-race-edition EXERCISE BOOKS with illustrations by yours truely will be available at the stationer's.
here is a sneak-preview of the four images:
- september 8th, 2009
currently there is an EXHIBIT "REICHTUM REGENWALD" by ORO VERDE at the CHOCOLATE-MUSEUM in cologne. the nine plates also show some illustrations i did.
- september 2nd, 2009
oro verde's online-game JUNGLE-RACE, for which i did all the illustrations, by now has more than 4000 players: TO THE ARTICLE
- august 23rd, 2009
the front page of the ahrensburger zeitung shows an article about rüdiger nehbergs project against female genital mutulation and his human rights organization TARGET. for the GOLDEN BOOK, which nehberg wants to hand out to every mosque in the world, i have done four illustrations, one of which can be seen in the ARTICLE.
- juli 31st, 2009
in cooperation with the busines editorial department of the deutsche welle i have drawn a 10-panel-comic, which can be seen on this PAGE.
- april 28th, 2009
you can download this ARTICLE (-> reproduction and larval rearing -> interference and exploitative competition) on the topic of tadpoal rivalry with two illustrations of mine at AMPHIBIANARK.ORG.- februar 25th, 2009
i like to travel, and i like to draw. the combination of those two fondnesses results in DIARYCOMIX.
- november 5th, 2008
in zusammenarbeit mit staufen veröffentlicht ORO VERDE eine sonderedition von SCHULHEFTEN zum thema regenwald - mit illsutrationen von mir.
hier die vier motive und das deckblatt des malblocks:
- 27. april 2008
bei seinem herrlich lustigen aber auch ergreifenden und tränenrührenden vortrag in köln hatte ich endlich gelegenheit, rüdiger nehberg einmal in person zu treffen
für sein GOLDENES BUCH, welches er im rahmen seines feldzuges gegen die weibliche genitalverstümmelung in jede moschee der welt verteilen will, habe ich vier illustrationen gemacht, die auch analphabeten die nachricht "genitalverstümmelung ist gegen den koran" vermitteln sollen.
- 3. april 2008
oft fehlt mir ein täglicher ansporn, zu zeichnen, und so habe ich beschlossen, etwas, das mich jeden tag nervt, in etwas zu wandeln, das mich jeden tag beschäftigt (und amüsiert). so entstand die idee, spam in cartoons umzuwandeln. das ergebnis gibt es auf ASPAMADAY.
- 16. oktober 2007
war am wochenende auf der frankfurter buchmesse, um SCOTT MCCLOUD mal live zu sehen. beeindruckend, wie viele inspirierende ideen in einen kopf reinpassen.
ausserdem hatte ich das glück, so tolle menschen (und comiczeichner!) wie MAWIL, FIL und NAOMI FEARN kennenzulernen. sehr nette leute, auch.
didi und stulle (von fil) kann ich jedem empfehlen, der mal wieder tränen lachen will.
jetzt bin ich total motiviert, mehr comics zu zeichnen, und hab keine zeit. murphy's law... :(- 4. oktober 2007
ich habe einen experimentellen comic geschrieben und gezeichnet und freue mich über euer ehrliches feedback. das konzept heisst "PANOCOMIC", und das sichtfeld dreht sich beim lesen immer 360 grad im kreis. es gibt also keine schnitte im konventionellen sinne.
- december 24th, 2010
