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Who wouldn't like to live abroad? A new residency programme of the Goethe-Institut is offering three comic artists the opportunity to get to know different cities.Lue lisää ...

Script and typography are seldom discussed in connection with comics. The typography magazine “Slanted” has now devoted an entire issue to this topic.Lue lisää ...

The 2012 Afkat Graphic Novel Sponsorship Award (Hamburg) goes to Tilo Richter and Karin KraemerLue lisää ...

The Comic Radio Show is celebrating an anniversary. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, founder Markus Gruber tells about his plans.Lue lisää ...

„König der Comics“ (i.e. king of comics) is the title of a documentary film on Ralf König, 51, now being shown in German cinemas.Lue lisää ...

Good comics require exciting narratives. A grant by the Ehapa Comic Collection has announced a grant for comics, comprising a purse of 5,000 € and publication of the comic.Lue lisää ...

Germany is still a long way off from a systematic, scientific study of comics. But things are stirring, as current publications show.Lue lisää ...

Suhrkamp Verlag is now publishing comics, too. Nicolas Mahler has adapted Thomas Bernhard’s novel Old Masters (Alte Meister) for a graphic novel series.Lue lisää ...

171 artists with over 600 drawings applied to this year’s Cartoon Contest. The winners have now been chosen.Lue lisää ...

What does the German comic market look like? For the first time, the new magazine Comic-Report delivers data and facts. The magazine will appear annually.Lue lisää ...

Anike Hage, Isabel Kreitz, David Füleki and Asja Wiegand are the Sondermann Prize winners for 2011. A total of six awards were announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair.Lue lisää ...

In Flanders, the blond-headed boy Jommeke has long since won children’s hearts. The comic series is now coming to Germany.Lue lisää ...

Germany’s first “Micky-Maus” magazine was issued in 1951. Ehapa Verlag is celebrating the 60th anniversary with a collected volume and a variety of actions.Lue lisää ...

How manga and anime artists approach the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in their works.Lue lisää ...

The illustrator Willi Blöß has been publishing biographies of celebrated artists in comic form for ten years. Now, a biography of Friedensreich Hundertwasser has been issued.Lue lisää ...

The author Brigitte Kronauer is well known for her powerfully eloquent short stories and novels. Two comic authors have now adapted her texts.Lue lisää ...

The comic artist Helmut Nickel, 87, has been awarded the Peng! Comics prize at the Munich Comic Festival. The ICOM Prizes were also awarded.Lue lisää ...

An international comics project in Russia is committed to a new concept of tolerance. Its motto: “Respect. International Comics”.Lue lisää ...

The second German Free Comics Day, in which practically the entire comics industry is participating, will take place on 14 May. Those fast enough will receive a bundle of free comic books in comic stores: 44 different issues with a run of 300,000 copies, have been printed specially for this day.Lue lisää ...