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Kurzfilmfestival Stuttgart

German-Arab Production Awarded Animated Film Prize

At the 20th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (2013), prizes totalling 65,000 Euros were awarded. Five awards went to productions from Germany.More ...

Newcomer

 
Sebastian Lörscher

Four Questions for Sebastian Lörscher

Lörscher was born in Paris in 1985 and grew up ion Bavaria. He won the next-generation design award Output-Award 2011 for his book Ziegenmilch & Zeichenstift (i.e. goat’s milk and a pencil) which he drew together with his 93-year old grandfather.More ...

Institutions

 

Comic Festivals

Angoulême, Lucerne, Erlangen and Linz aren’t exactly European metropolises. But these cities are now integral parts of cultural life: the entire comic industry meets there on a regular basis.More ...

Comics in …

 
Paul Hoppe: Destinations

“Don’t set your sights too high, hunker down for the long haul instead” – German Comic Artists Abroad

Im Ausland zu arbeiten ist für viele Comiczeichner, Illustratoren und Künstler ein Traum, der nur selten in Erfüllung geht. Wer es geschafft hat, möchte diese Erfahrung aber meist nicht missen.More ...

Comic Scene

 
(c) Enrique Flores

Perspectives from the field: the global protest culture in reportage drawings

There are more and more drawn images cropping up in the online media, on blogs or on artists' websites that depict the global protests of the past two years through artistic means.More ...

Background

 
Mawil: Bycicle-Tour-Checklist, Der Tagesspiegel, July 2008 © Der Tagesspiegel

German comics are back! Trends over the last twenty years

Germany has been put back on the comic map. A new German comic avant-garde originated from a group of graphic artists from East Berlin.More ...

Comic Transfer: Berlin–Bologna

Aisha Franz, „Alien“
For the Comic Transfer Blog Aisha Franz is drawing and writing from Bologna.

Comiconnexions

Which trends are shaping the comic scenes of Indonesia and Germany? Exhibitions, festivals and workshops connect comic artists.

Delhi Sketchbook

The comic artist Barbara Yelin drew a diary during her stay at the Indo-German Urban Mela in New Delhi.

Dossier: Comics and Graphic Novels in Germany and Egypt

Aus dem Comic-Reisejournal von Barbara Yelin © Goethe-Institut Kairo
The most important comic artists in Egypt, the comic boom in the Arab world – and Barbara Yelin’s comic-diary from Cairo

Dossier: Comic Countries Germany and Belgium

Goethe-Institut Belgien
The German and Belgian comic scene

Dossier: Comics in Germany – Comics in the Czech Republic

In the wake of the 1989 political turning point the comic scenes in both Germany and the Czech Republic are tanking up with new self-confidence.

Weblog: Osmose

Comic exchange: three Brazilian comic artists travel to Germany, while three German artists explore Brazil.

Comic-Transfer

Comic-Autoren aus Europa und der arabischen Welt im Dialog

Weblog: CityTales

Comic artists from South-East Asia and Germany tell their “CityTales” – a new story every month.