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Schwurbel
Berlin: Jochen Enterprises, 1999. 32 S.
ISBN 3-930486-87-3

On 16 June 1999, the last ‘Bloomsday’ of the century in which James Joyce consigned his legendary novel Ulysses to paper, Calle Claus, a comic artist based in Hamburg, was sitting by the Elbe. Here once more, with a feeling of displacement, he experienced the happenings of the famous thirteenth chapter: just as ninety-five years earlier Leopold Bloom had sighted a graceful creature on Sandymount Strand, who made his head quite ‘schwurblig’(‘giddy’), now his thoughts, and events, take their course…

Spring
Berlin : Reprodukt Verl., 2002. 24 S.
ISBN 3-931377-79-2

David’s friends give him a choice at the outside pool: either he’s to kiss the beautiful Bea awake or leap from the five-meter diving-board into the waters below. Both require a tremendous amount of courage. He makes his choice…

Findrella

Findrella is a little water nymph who attends the Underwater School in the depths of the ocean. After a nasty case of deep-sea bullying by her classmates, a flying fish leads her up to the surface where she comes across a copy of Vogue. When she returns to her clique with her appearance transformed she causes a stir (among the girls) and quickens many a pulse (among the boys).