I'm really looking forward to...

A Bäckereifachverkäuferin

A bakery shop assistant for a new Backjournal column

Cholor Cthulhu

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

I recently started to listen to audiobooks while working and came across H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" (or "Der Ruf des Cthulhu" - I listened to the german version) on Youtube. I have already read the story years ago, but again I were pretty excited after listening and had to quickly draw it. Maybe I will color it when I've got the time!

Oh and yepp - to take the wind out of the Cthulhu follower's sails: I know, that Lovecraft described C's body  being huge and bulky, but I always imagine it the exact opposite and so it's my interpretation - basta!

Guerilla Advertising

Bonjour! Yesterday I went to France to promote my upcoming calender for 2011.
I changed Fridolin the funny pharmacist fox into Mona Fridolisa and smuggled the picture into the Louvre. (To change the paintings I cleared the Mona Lisa room by shouting that the Venus de Milo had lost her blankets and wasn't able to cover herself cos of her lack of arms. Even the guard wanted to see her naked!) Muhar har, me is perfidious!!

Now I don't know what to do with that scruffy original. Maybe I will whitewash it for the next kitchen party...

MATH-terpiece (Cornelsen Klick! 6)

Good morning, pupils, sit down, it's time for math again!

The school- and working books for the 6th grade will be released soon and I it's more and more fun to illustrate them. Like I told you in the last post on that subject, "my" book-pupils are growing from book to book and it's fun to give them more and more character and own personality (as much charakter and personality as kids in a schoolbook can have).
This time I even had the possibilitiy to place some personal insiders in the illustrations, like friends that play the part of teachers or parents (yo, Krazy-K, you see Murat's dad?) ;P Not to mention the close friendship between Tim and Anna (the resemblance to real existing illustrators is intended by all means). So it's still fun and I'm glad that there will be four more books for me to illustrate.







Did I ever introduce my kids to you? Well, on this older picture from Klick! 5 they introduce themselves :)

I would never have thought that I would ever have so much fun with math books. I hated math at school and all I wanted at that time was a WEAPON OF MATH DESTRUCTION (HAHAha, oh man, I had to tell that one...)

FRED - the four headed fish

COME AND SEE THE INCREDIBLE FOUR HEADED SHARK WALKING THE EARTH ON HIS FISHTAIL AND USING A WHEELED WALKER TO CARRY HIS BUREAUCRATIC PAPERS! IT'S FRED FISH!  
The disgusting smell of fish is not based on a lack of body hygiene (or so he claims...).

I do not regularly show my monthly Fred Fish on here, but the newest one is really worth to be gaped at! The topic of the next month's book recention is about the rampant growth of the bureaucracy due to a growing headcount, that slows down the workflow insteat of improving it. In other words: Too many cooks spoil the broth.
This is the original Fred Fish illustration that I turned into the oldschool Freakshow placard just for fun (I'm very into those oldschool trash posters at the moment).

Still-Leben A40 Ruhrschnellweg

Here are some impressions of the "A40 - Stilleben" ("A40 - Still life"). Over 3 million of people from the Ruhr Area partied, skated or rode the bycicle together on 60km (37miles) between Duisburg and Dortmund.It was great and peaceful and somehow strange to experience the known highway in "slow motion". Isa and me made our way from Bo-Stahlhausen to Wattenscheid and back -  a way you usually drive by car in 5 minutes, but we nearly needed three hours to walk (you see a motorway with other eyes when you once walked it).

And after a whole day on a ca. 37 degreese hot highway without sun blocker we felt as knocked over as this little fellow (those are the things you don't notice when you drive the street with 120 km/h). I didn't wrote the chalk comments and I think it's extremely morbid, but it's somehow part of the daily life on the street, too.

PAUL - The psychic octopus

IT HAS 9 BRAINS AND 3 HEARTS AND IT COMES FROM THE ENDLESS DEPTH OF OBERHAUSEN TO LET THE NATIONS FEAR OR CELEBRATE IT'S PREDICTIONS - PAUL, THE PSYCHIC TENTorACLE!

I just had to draw Paul! I love this modern, news media made monsters of today. After the ash-monster it's the second creature from this series!
This is the original pencil sketch and the picture without the typo:

Bye bye Schland!-Ratte

The world cup is all over now and I grudgingly congratulate the Spanish national team for winning the cup! You just were the best team in the match... and we won the match for the third place... again (damn, nobody ever remembers the thrid world cup winner). But we kicked England and Argentina 4:1 and 4:0 and that's more than historic! And so I'm looking forward the next Euro Cup... and for that event I will finally wash my Schland!-shirt that looks pretty rough after the matches (and smells like beer and tears ;) - yes, it was a hard fight.