Gundi Herget & Mele Brink How the Huge, Nasty Monster Nightmare Found a Child Who Would Dream It to Its End The huge, nasty monster nightmare has one burning desire: it would love to know how it ends! But it never finds out. Because no child ever dreams it to the end. They all wake…
Graphic Novel
Michaela Konrad Embrace the Future EMBRACE THE FUTURE is a fictional advertising campaign that celebrates renouncing consumption as a hedonistic, sensual and fulfilling lifestyle. In the style of classic commercial advertising, the artist has created posters that take a tongue-in-cheek look at Western-influenced society and its skillful marketing strategies, which have been persuading us to…
Tessa Sima One-Page Stories “Popcorn is corn* after a nervous breakdown.” “The spoon firmly believed that the fork could change. Well.” These and many more flashes of inspiration were scattered across numerous individual sheets of paper until now. Now, for the first time, they are collected in a very enjoyable book: One-Page Stories. As a…
Ramón D. Veiga & Iván R. It’s Raining! A new adventure with Earthworm Earthworm loves the rain, but none of his friends is willing to get wet to play with him. Well, maybe there’s someone who doesn’t mind the rain … guess who? Get your mackintosh ready and dive into this new adventure of your…
Sandro Ramseier Shantiland Shantiland tells of the inner turmoil of a young spiritual master who, in the midst of a perverted, hyper-capitalist society, struggles to live up to his father’s expectations and successfully run the company he founded, Shanti Enterprise. Unhappy in the role of the mendacious commercial guru imposed on him, unconscious inclinations and…
Iván F. & Ramón D. Veiga Earthworm and Hedgehog The Earthworm has met a hedgehog who says that he is a fakir, a worm-charmer and a spike-thrower, but…. Could that be true? To make sure, the Hedgehog has a plan: to hypnotize the Earthworm – as the fakirs do with their snakes – and to…
Regina Hofer & Leopold Maurer F22.0 In psychiatry, ICD-10 F22.0 denotes the diagnosis of a delusional disorder. What is hidden behind this meagre combination of numbers and letters, however, is a mental maelstrom that sweeps all reality along with it in a powerful undertow. In Regina Hofer’s and Leopold Maurer’s graphic novel F22.0, the mental…
Eric Schwarz A Little Bit of Freedom Even if it looks like a holiday: The two twin brothers and their two best friends are rather on the run. From commitment, from feelings, from growing up, above all from themselves. But the escape is only a temporary one and the thought of returning creates a sense…
Sascha Reh & Adrian Wylezol How We Once Kidnapped Dirk Nowitzki Thirteen-year-old Billie is a huge fan of Dirk Nowitzki. Together with her friends, she is looking for a training place to emulate her idol. The four “Mavericks” have already torn up the backyard, and the bullies in the public square are severely lacking in…
Juan Feliu Sastre The Adventures of Stacey and Pepper: I Don’t Like Dingbats! In these five new adventures, Stacey wants to become a Youtuber, but her sisters, who already are youtubers, laugh at her because she has no followers; Shanon makes fun of her because she hasn’t had Covid and has to do a PCR…
Michaela Konrad Tomorrow WHAT WILL OUR FUTURE BE LIKE? The current technological, ecological and social processes of change are making it increasingly difficult to answer this question. Because the faster technological disruption progresses, the harder it is for us to keep up with the resulting socio-economic upheavals. This book invites us to pause and take…
Franz Suess Paul Two Paul’s First SummerIt’s Paul’s first summer in the big city, and expectations are high. He has finally escaped the religious-moral care of his grandmother, he hopes for freedom and – above all – horny adventures. He needs a cool pair of sunglasses and sexy underwear, then things will work out. Paul…
Iván F. & Ramón D. Veiga Earthworm and Magpie Earthworm meets a magpie. The magpie is extremely talkative and polite, which raises the suspicions of Earthworm, who fears the worst. And indeed, Magpie only wants to be polite in order to try to eat Earthworm. But Earthworm, with the help of a mulberry tree and…
Patrick Bonato Toubab in Senegal A white man travels for the first time to Senegal, a country he knows almost nothing about. His inner images and diffuse fears, shaped by a generalized Africa, travel with him. In West Africa, people like him are called “Toubab“, white bread. The young man is a comic artist and…
Earthworm wants to be Rabbit‘s friend. Rabbit isn‘t convinced, but Worm‘s insistence and sense of humor and a feast of mulberries will put an end to Rabbit‘s reluctance. After all, friendship is above all differences … isnt‘ it? A comic book starring Earthworm—much to the delight of early readers. by Iván F. & Ramón D….
Soap dispensers are sensitive beings who are often unable to cope with the pressure that is put on them every day. Their own listlessness, lack of self-esteem and the permanent fear of not being refilled drive them into depressive moods. A state of inner emptiness that increases even more in times of a pandemic with…
Did you ever kill a rabbit when you were young? Or did you study something that doesn’t interest you? There’s a second chance! Henning Wagenbreth turns back the time in Land in Reverse and you can do all those things again and better. In panels, full-page illustrations and with spot-on rhymes, the Berlin-based illustrator…
“You haven’t been here, peanut. You don’t know what that means: Forest. You know nothing, but I’m gonna show you everything.“ Imagine a forest. Without beginning, without end. Imagine lakes, rocks, valleys, gorges. Imagine the wildest animals. Imagine a sea of trees, a continent of wood and green. Imagine the maximum forest. And now imagine…
The old man liked to talk about the war and told us how it all began, how everyone was excited until we started losing. He was a soldier in the division “Das Reich”, served in the SS regiment “Der Führer”, which was almost completely worn down several times and was involved in numerous war crimes….
Esteisi has to face the ridicule of her sisters and the mean girls in class. The author is carried away by the overflowing imagination of Esteisi, a six-year-old girl who, with her fantastic ideas and the support of her faithful friend Pimiento, a talking pony, pushes the idiom “drastic times call for drastic measures” to…