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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
