Twisted neighbourhood

I passed this creatively arranged shopwindow of a nearby bakery store in my new neighbourhood in Bochum the other day. And I was so impressed, so deeply moved by the aesthetic coupled with a subliminal eroticism the decoration radiated, that I had to take this picture.
It's a chocolate Fiege beer bottle next to a potato with boobies!! 
This is madness! Madness? THIS! IS! BOCHUM!

TÖRÖÖÖÖööö

Before ALF and The Hoffmeister (as Michael Knight) became my childhood heroes, there was this big, friendly and talking elephant Benjamin Blümchen and his smart friend Otto, whose cassette adventures made me fall asleep every single evening. All the happier I was to draw a Benjamin Blümchen puzzle (I had already drawn him when I was four, so I was practiced ;)

But believe me, it was harder than it looks to hit the pretty strictly defined style.

So get Benjamin Blümchen out with the refuse collection (...bei der Müllabfuhr)

Was nich passt, wird passend gemacht*

Samma, watt machen Bauarbeita, wennse Pause vonne Maloche habn? Schön Bütterken beißen und dabei passeln!

Fittingly my new puzzle for Schmidt Spiele deals with working on a building site again! So get the puzzle and enoy it as much as my little cousin did the last days... (the picture doesn't really convey the intense joy she actually had while piecing it together ;)

 *what doesn't fit is made to fit!

Mind vs. Instinct

Fred made his decision...

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...)