Publisher: Deutsche Bibelstiftung (German Bible Foundation) Released: 1980 - 1982 Drawings: Julius Senders Text: Norbert Scholl Format: Issue large format - Four-color Genre: History Country of origin: Germany
Danish Artist Henrik Rehr Delves into the Life of Gavrilo Princip, the Man Who Started WWI
On June 28th 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was murdered. It was the spark that sets the world on fire. Artist and writerHenrik Rehr has burrowed into the life of the Archduke’s assassin, Gavrilo Princip, and created a must-read volume in an already growing pile of sublime WWI graphic novels.
Much ink has already flowed about the start of the Great War, but never before has a publication probed so deeply into the man who set the gears in motion.
In 232 pages, Rehr’s extensively researched graphic novel delves into the motivations of the young SerbGavrilo Princip and contextualizes his taking-up of arms against the Archduke.
It is a remarkable achievement by Rehr that he succeeds in making us feel for this small person, who ultimately turns out to be just a man and a cog in the machine of higher powers.
From his youth spent in poverty as the seventh of nine Serbian children in rural Bosnia-Herzegovina to his wasted education in Sarajevo, where he comes into contact with anarchistic elements, Princip’s life up until the moment he entered history consisted mainly of hardship and famine.
The radical philosophies of repression and “power to the people”, as perpetuated by writers such as Bakoenin and Kropotkin, resonated deeply with Princip, who had always lived beneath the yoke of the Austrian ruler under whom Bosnia-Herzegovina was annexed.
From that point on Princip fell under the spell of The Black Hand – a terrorist organization consisting of nationalistic Serbs – and was manipulated by them and their international network of radicals to play his part in the assassination of the Archduke.
In a sublime storytelling move, Rehr regularly interrupts Princip’s story with single-page vignettes of Franz Ferdinand’s life. The contrast with the aristocrat’s life of luxury and privilege couldn’t be more stark, and the tension mounts as the meeting between the two comes closer – especially as the Archduke ignores warning after warning of a terrorist assassination plot.
All the while, the story of Gavrilo Princip masterfully delineates the political hotbeds of turn-of-the-century Europe, laying out precisely the geographical and historical tensions between Bosnia, Serbia and Austria-Hungary.
Drawing in a heavy, realistic line not unlike that of Joe Sacco, Rehr drenches the pages in dense cross-hatching, grey colouring and spotted blacks. His pages are often full-bleed or black with heavy panel borders, and some pages even come across as intricate woodcuts. The minute you open the page, you’re thrown into a dark world of misfortune and pending disaster.
The drawing style hammers home the seriousness of Gavrilo Princip’s actions and decisions in a startling manner. Rehr also does not shy away from more prosaic images, interspersing the story with full-page shots of the trenches, a mutilated soldier or a corpse in a church as a preview of the horrors to come.
It was not empathy but a deep sorrow that emanated from me upon closing the back cover of this book. It’s a tale of a life (or lives) wasted physically and mentally, drowned by international politics and by a craving to belong to something. And although the subtitle of the graphic novel is ‘The Man Who Started WWI’, it is clear that Austria was just looking for an excuse to invade the Balkans.
Subtitles:... a tribute to the mother of invention
Publisher: Ehapa Comic Collection (Egmont vgs Publishing) Released: 2005 Drawings: Andreas Rausch Text: Andreas Rausch Format: Paperback - Monochrome Genre: Tribute / History Country of origin: Germany
Contents:Music as a comic - not only for fans and friends of Frank Zappa
Undergroundige images, unsparing quotes, provocative texts and biographical data: "ZAPPAESK" is a musical photo trip through the life of this exceptional artist and enfant terrible Frank Zappa - and a tribute to the "mother of invention". Andreas Rausch creates the impressive creative combination of Zappa's biographical data with quotations from his often relentlessly provocative texts. In the game with time noise cancels the chronology of events (biography, compositions, advanced artistic representations) to arrange the "evolution of a creative thought" absolutely free and new can. As the author of this puts a lot of emphasis on analogies, the story is with cultural, scientific, philosophical and representational truths merged from outside the Zappa universe.
Contest:In the late years of the 27th century, the war-ravaged Earth is united by a man. His name is Orion Assante. For fifty years he rules the world, and during this time was a new military elite: the Grendel. Grendel have a preferred status in the society. With fanatical zeal to obey the will of their masters and follow a strict code of honor. But after the death of Grendel Khan Orion I. breaks the caste of Grendel in many small clans that are often hostile to each other. Individual groups control entire cities and regions. They are respected as before - but even more feared. Because of the once absolute code of honor Grendel degenerates more and more in the face of a desolate, in many parts of radioactively contaminated world, unsettling in the mutants and vampires the nights and every man is a wolf to man. Deposited by the remains of civilization combat the Agram- and Karantani clan to the death. Ally be changed as undershirts, a skirmish chasing the other. But some of the Grendel are tired of fighting. Goran tried to revive the ancient code of honor, during Borna leaves the clan to live with his family at sea. Both come from bad to worse and are drawn into a conflict that is steadily dimensions and threatens to end in a giant bloodbath.
The two Croats Darko Macan and Edvin Biukovic tell an epic tale of death and honor, of futility and sacrifice.
Publisher: Zwerchfell Verlag Drawings: Tim Dinter Text: Kai Pfeiffer Format: Paperback - Monochrome Genre: Thriller Country of origin: Germany
Cover: Softcover / 90 pages
Old women, the true rulers of Berlin? Tristan of Eulenberg, clerk of the Berlin Institute for Interfacial, behavior remains behind - and slipping deeper and deeper into the mysterious events on the dark, nightmarish side of the city. A surreal thriller, not the new, but from the real Berlin.
Publisher: Alpha Comic Verlag (Schwermetall präsentiert 80 & 81) / ZAMPANO - KAOS MOON Complete Edition: Rebirth! Drawings / Text: David Boller Released: 1986 - 1998 Format: Album / Solid color and four-color ( Alpha ) Genre: Fantasy/Mystery Country of origin: Switzerland
Content:Long ago, ruled powerful clan of shamans over Siberia. But then Christian soldiers penetrated into the hill country and enslaved the population. Only three of the most powerful shamans escaped the attack ...
In modern New York, the RussianKatja Zakkov experienced a series of strange visions. What is the connection it has to the mystical Shaman and the role it plays media incarnation KAOS MOON, the reader learns in the brand-new origin story, "Revenge of the Shaman". In addition, this volume contains both published by heavy metal albums, four more, partly unpublished short stories and a number of rare sketches and paintings.
This is the ideal opportunity in aggregate form to rediscover nominated for a Russ Manning Award, esoteric cult comic and to enjoy David Boller's beautiful, detailed drawings.
Vol. 1 Hardcover / 56 pages
Vol. 2 Hardcover / 56 pages
Kaos Moon Complete Edition:Rebirth! (180 pages / 16.7 cm x 26 cm / b / w / flaps)
Publisher: Carlsen Verlag Released: 2001/5 Drawings: Robert Labs Text: Robert Labs Format: Paperback - Solid color and four-color Genre: Science Fiction Style: Manga Country of origin: Germany
Remarks: Comics in Japanese reading order (back to front) with the cover on the back of the usually customary title.
Content: Actually Ted Sunzai want to start with his sister in the summer, as this suddenly chaining him to the toilet of the airport, handed him a mysterious serum and then goes alone on board the flight, the two had booked. Shortly after, Ted is forced to watch as the plane explodes along with his sister. What's with the attack on himself and who is this Dr. White, of the said his sister in the last minutes of her life? Dazed mistaken Ted through the city and runs with it without knowing it the greatest adventure of his life against.
Ben is disappointed when his grandfather wants to show him in the museum only an old bus. But then he listened spellbound to the story of Rosa Parks: In 1955, namely his grandfather has been in exactly this bus next to Rosa Parks when she refused to vacate her place for a white man. And this bold move should no the whole world! A very child-friendly lesson in courage with great images in the style of American realism.
Ben finds his grandfather often a bit awkward and thinks he is no longer sometimes out of your mind. But when he was in Detroit in the museum's history and tells the story of Rosa Parks, Ben sees the world with different eyes. Rosa Parks' arrest was the catalyst for the emergence of the evidence on Martin Luther King black civil rights movement in the United States.
Fabrizio Silei succeeds in this important episode to tell a clear and appropriate for children in the history of black people in America and to give a sense of the injustice it means to be treated as a second class citizen because of his skin color. And Maurizio Quarello resurrects the America of the 50s in its reminiscent of Edward Hopper large images.
Publisher: Edition 52 Released: 2008 Drawings: Jule K. Text: Jule K. Format: Paperback - Four-color Country of origin: Germany
"Fernanda's fabulous life" is by the artist Fernanda, who is devious by a grant from the metropolis to the countryside. There begins for them a new life with loneliness, a new girlfriend, a stubborn mayor, quirky locals, their band and a new, big love. With characteristic they Humor and irony Jule K. tells the story of Fernanda's life, the only appears anything but fabulous. But ultimately can cope with a mixture of enough alcohol, sleep, sex, music and friendship every crisis ...
Publisher: Volksverlag Edited by: Frank Cmuchal/ Jan Reiser Author/ Artist: Members of Comicaze Format: Album (22.4 x 30.5 cm) Country of origin: Germany
In 1810, the story of the largest folk festival in the world embarked on a "Wiesn" between Munich and Sendling. The Oktoberfest has since become for the Munich to a kind of fifth season to entwine many anecdotes. Historical figures and Munich originals mingle with the merry crowd - of King Ludwig and Lola Montez up to Albert Einstein, Franz Xaver Krenkl to Steyr Hans. Munich comic artists have these stories in new and alive told, and do not forget the everyday fates of Oktoberfest guests.
Comic, tragic and outrageous stories from drinking, partying, loving and clean up afterwards. The comic Oktoberfest.
Das Mädchen aus der Volkskommune-(The girl from the People's Commune)
Publisher: Rowohlt Verlag (1972)
Drawings: Hsu Chin, Ho Yu-chih, Hao Shih, Ch'en Yun-hua, Hu Tsu-ch'ing & Who P'iao Text: Hsin Liang, Wan Chia-ch'un, Li Chun, Lu Chung-chien, An Chung-min, Chu Hsiang-chun, Hsin Sheng, So SE, Fu To, Ma Jung, Li Ch'i-huang, Li Pai-ying, Ting Hung, Lu Chu-kuo, Ts'ui Chia.chun, Feng-fu, Jean Chesneaux & Umberto Eco
Format: Paperback - Monochrome Genre: History - Social criticism Country of origin: China
Cover: Softcover / 300 pages
Story Title:
1.) Opium War 2.) Blue sea and red heart 3.) The girl from the People's Commune 4.) Tracking 5.) Letter from South Vietnam 6.) Lei Feng 7.) The Chinese comics as a counter-culture Cautious 8.) Approaching a other code
Publisher: Tokyopop ( 2009/10 ) Drawings: Marie Sann Text: Guido Neukamm Format: Paperback (12.6 x 18.8 cm) - Solid color and four-color Genre: Fantasy Style: Manga Country of origin: Germany
Content:The people of crows has much in common with its namesake from the bird kingdom: The dark essence of love gold and would do almost anything to get it in their possession. Especially when the leaves connect with their second passion, the lust for blood ... Ice, a girl who was born as a crow wants to break out from the traditions of her people and starts a fight against their own origin ...
Comics from Germany (German authors & illustratos)
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