Regina Hofer Dopey The doctor tells her she should write these words down every day; it helps. It’s good for the frontal lobe of the brain; the frontal lobe is flexible and can redevelop. I am brave. I am free. I am strong. I am alive. And she should read books she already knows; that…
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Pascale Osterwalder Grigor & Tolya: The Bat Life at the Oak House is turned upside down, because Grigor now wants to live like his ancestors – as a brave hunter of the night. But it’s not that simple, because the darkness makes everything seem eerie. Grigor’s friend Tolya finds it terribly boring that Grigor now…
Eric & Edgar Schwarz Fire Fire Monster – A Picture Book A huge fire is raging in the forest! And that’s not all: the fire gives birth to a monster! Soon the monster breaks into the house of the four brothers, who fear for their lives. As different as the four brothers are, they are…
Michael Roher On Foot This is Mr Mandelmus. Mr Mandelmus never walks. This is how Michael Roher introduces the protagonist of his new picture book. Mr Mandelmus is a portly and cheerful chap, but he never takes a single step more than he has to. A scooter, a car, a delivery service – these are…
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…
NIkolaus Ober & Nina Ober Tiger Learns to Fly Sometimes, it’s hard to believe, even a tiger is bored. And sometimes, no amount of playing football with the vultures, singing with the wildebeest or acting with the monkeys can help a tiger against this boredom. Learn to fly, that would be it, Tiger thinks one…
NIkolaus Ober & Nina Ober Spectacled Bear’s Inventions ‘I’m going to invent SOMETHING,’ said the spectacled bear. He didn’t know what it would be yet, but it would come. Something USEFUL, he added a little later, something COMPLETELY NEW! ‘Otherwise it wouldn’t be an invention,’ said a baboon nine times wisely, but by then the…
Julian Tapprich Tiger Dreams Leo was really no ordinary bird. He found the chirping and trilling and singing of the other birds boring enough to fly away. These same old songs! He preferred to indulge in his daydreams, which unfortunately he couldn’t tell anyone about, especially not the other birds. Because Leo dreamed of a…
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…
Pascale Osterwalder Grigor & Tolya: The Cheese Sandwich A warm, sunny morning dawns in the Gnarled Forest, but Grigor couldn’t be in a worse mood. Tolya’s snoring has kept him awake half the night and, to make matters worse, the cheese has run out at breakfast. But Grigor really needs his cheese sandwich now. To…
Franz Suess In the Pockets of the Handsome Mr Day When handsome Mr Day gets tired, Mrs Night wakes up and it slowly gets dark everywhere. Mr Day quickly pockets various things that are left of him: a fish that didn’t find its way home, the last ray of sunshine that no longer warmed him…
Rosemarie Eichinger & Thomas Kriebaum Daredevil Theophil Theophil Ringelblum doesn’t like excitement or adventure. It involves tearing your trousers, scraping your knees, getting bumps, ticks or other unpleasantries. Theophil is neither a lively boy nor a hero. He loves to sit still, read or play on the computer. When his parents tell him that he…
Tessa Sima If Responsibility Were a Hat What if responsibility were a hat, which one(s) would suit me best? One suits you particularly well, but for me it is unbearable. And for others it’s probably the other way round. How much responsibility does a crown bear, and what if I don’t want to wear responsibility?…
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…
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…
Nele Brönner & Melanie Laibl Super Glitter Where does nature end? And where does technology begin? And what happens when the two worlds collide? A magpie with a sense of beauty finds a shimmering something in the forest. What might it be? Plant or animal? Magpie, fox and mole disagree. Then – luckily? – a…
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…
Flora‘s ninth birthday is approaching. But instead of worrying about birthday wishes, her thoughts revolve around completely different things: The news is full of disturbing reports about the effects of climate change. Even the koala bears are threatened with extinction, it is claimed. “That won‘t happen“, says Flora‘s dad. But that doesn‘t make things any…