Tag: German comics
The Winners of the Max und Moritz-Preis for Best German Comics, 2020
Awarded biennially since 1984, this year's awards were presented digitally online earlier this month.
INDIE VIEW: You can’t avoid THE UNKNOWN
The Unknown
By Anna Sommer
Translated by Helge Dascher
Conundrum Press
There are many ways that people allow themselves to become victims of what they believe is fate and the probably the most common is inaction. In The...
INDIE VIEW: Baltic publisher kuš! still pushes the boundaries of comics
The Latvian comics publisher kuš! has been incredibly successful at getting its message out there since its creation in 2007. It doesn’t just focus on Latvian work, but gathers creators from an international pool...
Review: Mortality from all sides in ‘In The Future, We Are Dead’
Death is a multi-faceted subject and German cartoonist Eva Müller’s In The Future We Are Dead gives it the treatment it deserves. Müller comes at the subject from a number of vantage points that range...
Manga About A British Explorer Wins the German Children’s Literature Award for Nonfiction!
The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize) is awarded each year as part of the festivities surrounding the Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair). Celebrating its 60th year, it is sponsored by the German Federal...
Review: Barbara Yelin’s ‘Irmina’ shows how history destroys us in little ways
Quiet and brooding, while still warm and with a great delicacy, Barbara Yelin’s Irmina takes the author’s own discovery of her grandmother’s World War II era diaries and letters, and applies the resulting biography...
Award Winning Comics Announced at the Munich Comics Festival!
The Comicfestival München (Munich Comics Festival) was held last weekend, and numerous comics and graphic novels were honored with the Peng! Award, and the ICOM Independent Comics Award.
Tagesspiegel reports on the winners of the Peng!, and...
You Won’t Believe What’s Happening in Munich This Week!
Every other year, Munich hosts the Munich Comic Festival (Comicfestival München), which, like other continental comics festivals, offers a diverse international guest list while still celebrating the local talent!
For those who kann nicht Deustsch...
24 Hours of International Comics: Germany
Guten Tag!
Germany... it's a bit of a conundrum in Continental comics.
Smack dab in the middle of Europe, it gets a lot of comics imported from other countries, mostly from neighboring Belgium and France. It...
The Winners of the Max und Moritz-Preis for Best German Comics
Every two years, the city of Erlangen, Germany hosts the Erlangen Comics Salon.
In a nutshell, it's the German version of Angoulême. It's not as crazy or as big, as the German comics scene is...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Comics Awards
Last weekend, The Frankfurt Book Fair showcased two German comics awards:
The Deutscher Cartoon Preis (German Cartoon Prize), awarded since 2006
Sondermann Publikumspreis (Sondermann audience award), awarded since 2004
The German Cartoon Prize has two divisions: newcomer...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Die Pflichtlektüre
(Die Pflichtlektüre translates to "required reading" in German. Most of the following links are auf Deutsch, so either use a translation program (Google Chrome does it automatically), or find a friend to help you.)
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