Christian Gasser, born 1963, Swiss writer. He is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Art & Design and an editor and co-publisher of the comic magazine STRAPAZIN.
Christian Gasser, born 1963, Swiss writer. He is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Art & Design and an editor and co-publisher of the comic magazine STRAPAZIN.
The skyscraper as a microcosm: In “The Skyscraper. 102 Storeys of Life” German comic book writer Katharina Greve introduces one of the most original comics of the year.
Liv Strömquist’s “The Fruit of Knowledge” is a unique non-fiction book about female sexuality.
Relationships, sex, women’s self-determination and disappointments – the French comic book author Aude Picault covers these topics in her graphic novel “Ideal Standard”.
Ulli Lust, in her mid-twenties, an aspiring artist in Vienna, is in love with two men: Georg, the 20-year-old actor, with whom things have fizzled out in bed; and Kimata, the Nigerian refugee, with whom she flirts at a party and falls into a madly passionate affair.
In “Pretending is Lying” the Belgian comic artist Dominique Goblet illustrates the abysses of her childhood and comes up with some striking images.
It’s not surprising, but then it’s totally surprising that “Paysage après la bataille” was awarded the best comic of the year prize in 2016 at the Angoulême International Comics Festival...
The French-Canadian comic book author Guy Delisle landed a bestseller with his illustrations from international hot spots like “Pyongyang”, “Birma” or “Jerusalem”. In his latest book, “Hostage” he...
From 26 to 29 January, the 44th Angoulême International Comics Festival was held in south-west France. This is the top event in the European comics world...
Foreign ‘guest workers’ also lived in the GDR. They came from socialist sister countries in the Third World...
Anton Kannemeyer alias Joe Dog, a white South African, is just as controversial as he is popular in his home country. In comics, caricatures...
One more time, Corto Maltese, the sea captain with no home port and the anarchist without championing the cause of anarchy, rushes into his exhilarating adventures, taking him from the South Seas to Brazil, and via Africa to the Far East.
The “ebook” has been the slow-burner for years at book fairs. At Comic Festivals, of course, events are organized about the e-Comic, although the approach is comparatively reserved and tentative. Facing up to the digital revolution – sooner or later this will also impact on the comic – is not happening as consistently as it should.
Picture the scene: your job is in an area that will have experienced growth – and more, and more growth – for almost twenty years. Yet, by now your biggest worry is nothing more than this boom
The Angoulême International Comics Festival is the mecca of the comic scene.
The Angoulême International Comics Festival is the mecca of the comic scene. For the 42nd festival, illustrators, writers, publishers and journalists from around the world and over 200,000 comic fans gathered in the small town in south-west France. The comic world’s big festival was overshadowed this year by the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Rutu Modan: A Suppressed War
Joe Sacco: Truth or Objectivity
There have always been war Comics. As elsewhere in popular culture, they satisfy the need both for heroic action and pacifist debate. As a result, they frequently suffer the same problems as the portrayal of war in films: even the best and most pacifist intentions are undermined by the power of the images, and distorted by the portrayals of camaraderie, spectacular deeds on the battlefield and kitschy representations of the front-line. All this involuntarily glorifies war.
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