Among the recipients of the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, announced last week, is German graphic novelist Ulli Lust, for her autobiographical Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, translated by Kim Thompson (Fantagraphic Books, 2013). Lust appeared at last fall's Brooklyn Book Fair at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut New York and read from and talked about her work.
Publisher: Achterbahn AG a.o. / NPE Modellbau. Released: 2001 / 2010 - appears yet Drawings: Mathias Neumann Tikwa Text: Mathias Neumann Tikwa Format: Bulletin large format (21.0 x 29.7 cm) / Album (21.0 x 29.7 cm) - Four-color Genre: Humor Subgenre: Horror / Scary Style: Funny Country of origin: Germany
Content: The small tomb bitch Subscriber TIKWA comes to shake vigorously with leather and whip the wide of the vampires, satanists, goths and sadomasochism friends. The small tomb bitch is an attractive bride in latex and leather. It is definitely evil and at the same time fascinating erotic, somewhere between nasty dominatrix and naughty brat. From her we learn how to make a fallen angel an angel and what it means when a vampire "from the dust makes". The first comic humor from the gothic / goth scene gives the term "black humor" new dimensions. Between devils love vampires and submissive demons, the small tomb bitch cares first about their own fun. From the comic figure now was the incarnate crypt bitch, together with their dark maids already had several live performances on TV and at festivals. The bizarre ideas and black jokes of the devil Luders are a comic fun as it has never been done before him.
Content: In the year 2087: Joe Darling is a bounty hunter who is looking for money criminals. The society is corrupt, the government can maintain control only with harsh enforcement of violence. Joe works for what is still called law. So Joe comes from one adventure to the next and must primarily with his arch-nemesis, the snake, constantly grapple. An action packed comic in the best Pulpmanier.
Publisher: Chatten-Vertrieb Released: 1996 Drawings: Gerhard Schreppel Text: Gerhard Schreppel / Hans-Erich Dingel Format: Piccolo booklet format (17.0 x 7.8 cm) Genre: Adventure / History Country of origin: Germany
Publisher: Carlsen Verlag Released: 01/2015 Drawings: Reinhard Kleist Text: Reinhard Kleist Format: Paperback (17,5 x 24,6 cm) - Monochrome Genre: Graphic Novel Country of origin: Germany
Cover: Hardcover / 152 pages
Content: The sprinter Samia Yusuf Omar represented Somalia at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. However, she was threatened by Islamic extremists who oppose that women play sports. In the hope of being able to participate in the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she tried to escape to Europe. Samia Yusuf Omar drowned 2012 at the age of 21 years ago Lampedusa.
Publisher: Comicplus+ (Verlag Sackmann und Hörndl) Released: 1992 Drawings: Ronald Putzker Text: Erich L. Nussbaumer Format: Album - Four-color Genre: History (Columbus Biography) Country of origin: Austria
Content:Valladolid in Spain, in 1506. On his deathbed, a lonely old man can once again pass in review the highs and lows of his life. This man is Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America.
Publisher: Avant-Verlag Released: February 2015 - Published still Drawings: Simon Hanselman Text: Simon Hanselman Format: Paperback 26,5 x 19 x 1,6 cm - Four-color Genre: Stoner-Comedy Country of origin: Australia
Content:Megg is a depressed, addicted witch. Her black cat is called Mogg and then there's her boyfriend Owl, an anthropomorphic, uh, owl. The three often hang from werewolf Jones. What seems at first glance to be episodic sitcom, turns out on closer inspection to be sophisticated character study suburban ennui that could compete with works by Todd Solondz, Matt Groening or Flaubert. The craziest stoner comedy of all time, the genre is actually driven: These characters fight in a way with depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, unemployment, and their feelings to each other, they instantly to the popular stars of Simon Hanselmann's Girl Mountain Tumblr page made. The Tasmanian artist Hanselmann is the next star in the comic sky - Hexe Total is the first comprehensive collection of Megg stories in German language. But beware: highly addictive!
Publisher: Ehapa Comic Collection (Egmont vgs Verlag) Released: 2004 - 2005 Drawings: Uwe Heinelt Text: David Safier Format: Paperback - Four-color Genre: Humor Subgenre: Comic by Movie / TV Style: Funny Country of origin: Germany
Content:Berlin, Berlin - the cult series of ARD: The audience loved it, the criticism of the "Spiegel" to the "Bild am Sonntag" from the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" to the "FAZ" loved the series and the Internet, the fansites romp , Lolle, the main character of the series is a comic artist, so what could be better than finally a "Berlin, Berlin comic" bring out. Artist of the comic is Uwe Heinelt who has designed the now famous Cartoon from the series. The story behind it is by David Safier, the author of the series scripts, for which he was awarded the prestigious Grimme Prize.
In Berlin it comes to power failure. And as happened Lolle something monstrous: Located in the comic book store she gets the kiss of her life. But kissing is as far as the light disappeared. And now Lolle have to kiss a lot of frogs before finding her mysterious prince ...
Publisher: Avant-Verlag Published: 2012 (new edition 2015) Drawings: Simon Schwartz Text: Simon Schwartz Format: Album (23 x 17 x 2,2) - Two-color Genre: Novel / History Country of origin: Germany
Cover: Softcover / 176 pages
Content: Who was Matthew Henson? The first man he reached the North Pole in 1909 and became part of the mythology of the Inuit, as the man who defeated the devil. But who earned fame was denied him because Matthew Henson was black. In his new book, the award-winning comic book artist and writer Simon Schwartz tells the story of African American polar explorerMatthew Henson. Movingly he reported the pioneering spirit, failure and forget to be a great man. An adventure filled with mystery, madness and deep tragedy.