June 17, 2014
June 3, 2014
Proposals
I was going to post this last week, then I got sidetracked by current events.
The wedding was all kinds of awesome! Now my friends, they are married. Crazy! And there was chicken for breakfast on Sunday. What a world!
I'm off to Stockholm tomorrow! See you when I get back.
The wedding was all kinds of awesome! Now my friends, they are married. Crazy! And there was chicken for breakfast on Sunday. What a world!
I'm off to Stockholm tomorrow! See you when I get back.
May 20, 2014
MOS #12
[ Soundtrack: Laura Imbruglia - Wouldn't Be Surprised (Live) ]
Version française.
Spoiler alert: I didn't move out. To this day, I still feel a low-level wave of panic whenever someone in the building starts drilling. I visualize most sounds when I hear them (kind of like imagining a landscape), so the kind of noise depicted here pretty much beats the will to live out of me.
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In current news: I'm going to Stockholm in less than a month to see my sister's graduation ceremony and bid a temporary farewell as my family will be moving base to California for a year. It costs a lot to visit Sweden and as a result I'm offering art to help cover the costs. Check it out here!
If you want to help but don't want to clutter your office with personalized art (why??), you can click the Flattr button on this page or pledge a monthly donation via Patreon.
May 14, 2014
The Clairikine Hits Stockholm Art Drive!
The dates: June 4 - 11, 2014
The plan: visiting Stockholm for my sister's graduation. Hitting up fave haunts. Fangirling X-Men: Days of Future Past. Grabbing a starköl. People moving! Things changing! What!
The goods: I've got some very limited personalized postcards (sketches or poetry!) and I'm opening up six commission slots, four of which are The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo or X-Men themed. See below!
I am also going to give it a shot with a Google Hangout to talk about Berlin, Stockholm, comics and my cat for 45 minutes. I promise I'm good company.
Slots are reserved by clicking the donate button at the end of the post and specifying in the note to the seller what slot you want. I will then e-mail you to confirm the slot reservation.
Delivery dates are estimated. All prices include shipping to Europe; please add 3€ for shipping outside of Europe.
Celebrate the past ten years of Stockholm rootedness and help fund the madness!
The goods: I've got some very limited personalized postcards (sketches or poetry!) and I'm opening up six commission slots, four of which are The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo or X-Men themed. See below!
I am also going to give it a shot with a Google Hangout to talk about Berlin, Stockholm, comics and my cat for 45 minutes. I promise I'm good company.
Slots are reserved by clicking the donate button at the end of the post and specifying in the note to the seller what slot you want. I will then e-mail you to confirm the slot reservation.
Delivery dates are estimated. All prices include shipping to Europe; please add 3€ for shipping outside of Europe.
Celebrate the past ten years of Stockholm rootedness and help fund the madness!
**ORDERS ARE CLOSED! Thanks to everyone who donated! **
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May 6, 2014
Pickup Line
The real question is: is it a pickup line-in or line-out? *ba-dum-kshh*
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COMIC INVASION BERLIN was a huge success!
u look so tired/happy
Thanks to everyone who came out, said hi, bought comics and contributed to my bike fund by buying postcard sketches! Thanks also to my excellent table neighbors and friends for letting me take bathroom/beer/burger/oxygen breaks (note to self: hire a table buddy!).
In case you missed it, the lovely folks at FluxFM had me and festival organiser Marc Seestaedt over recently to chat about Comic Invasion, as well as about the Berlin comics scene and our personal projects. You can listen to me draw a blank on how to say "I don't know if people can tell I'm not German", in German, on the recording here. (There's also a gorgeous shot of the neighborhood around the FluxFM offices as seen from their roof. And of me pulling a face.)
Hot on those heels, I'm pleased to announce that I will be tabling at Thought Bubble Sequential Arts Festival in Leeds this year! There will most definitely be some kind of fundraiser to help pay for travel and lodging, as well as details on where I'll be at, closer to the festival date in November. I'm super-excited and will try to make a UK jaunt of it!
And speaking of fundraisers, I'm traveling to Stockholm from June 4-11, so, y'know... Watch this space!
[ Jars of Clay - After The Fight ]
April 22, 2014
M.O.S. #11
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Things that have changed since I wrote and drew this episode:- The amount of people in this comic that still live in Berlin (par for the course, really)
- I can barely remember liking the guy in question
- I'm not deathly afraid of shading nor spotting blacks
- My lettering looks less like it was tracked onto the page by a bunch of crickets on acid
- I still go to this church
- I still don't know how to read German men
- I still ride that S-Bahn
- I still feel both rootless and at home in Berlin
April 18, 2014
Comic Invasion Berlin!
I'm tabling at Comic Invasion Berlin next weekend, y'all! It will be my first actual comic arts festival and I am totally excited. Come see me at table 25a from 12:00 until the hour I keel over! I will have my minis, stickers, some original art and will be doing sketches too.
That's my bird up there dodging UFO laser fire, by the way.
April 15, 2014
Socializing
[ Against Me! - Stop! ]
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I spruced up my store page a bit and added some original art on my Etsy! Have a look (also there's a shiny button on the sidebar you can click)!
April 8, 2014
How I Met Your Municipales
I don't know what hit me harder last week... Valls being made Prime Minister, or the How I Met Your Mother finale.
Seriously though, it was a one-two punch of WTF.
April 1, 2014
MOS #10
Here's my dad at the Tacheles in April 2010:
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So, DUDES -- after a long-a** hiatus, Master of Survival is back!!
There are about six episodes left to go, plus some bonus comics. How fast the comic updates depends greatly on you. It goes like this: via my Patreon page, you can pledge to donate one dollar or more per episode of Master of Survival (or filler comic between updates). The higher the pledges are, the more I can afford to focus on updating.
Patrons get charged every month depending on how many new comics I've posted (expect no more than 4 and no less than 3), and have access to weekly-ish, exclusive blog posts about whatever I'm working on.
A note on the habitual translation of the episodes: nearly all forthcoming episodes are written in English, and will be translated into French when time permits. Any episode written in French will be posted in English and French simultaneously.
That's enough on my end, I hope you enjoy the second instalment of this comic and I look forward to giving you more new pages!
March 18, 2014
Verknallt
I don't get it, it just keeps happening.
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I've added a reward tier to my Patreon page! Patrons who pledge $2 or more per comic now get all five of my comic PDFs for free as a thank-you. If you can't be bothered to clog your hard drive, you can also pledge to donate as low as $1 per comic to help keep them going.
I also keep a sort of progress log on Patreon with process shots and updates. If you're into that kind of thing and you've always wanted to throw small amounts of money at me, it's a pretty sweet deal!
March 4, 2014
Talking
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Hey-o, did you know that if you want to support this blog directly, you can now do so on Patreon? You can pledge $1 or more per comic that I post, and as a reward you get access to exclusive updates from the drawing board. Even a $1 pledge goes a long way and I would super super appreciate it.
There's also a date for the next Master of Survival update somewhere on there that I've otherwise been super-quiet about :V
Also, I'm curating the I AM EUROPE Twitter account this week - check it out!
Also, I'm curating the I AM EUROPE Twitter account this week - check it out!
February 25, 2014
Before/After
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You now have an opportunity to support my comics with monthly microdonations on Patreon! By pledging$1 or more per comic that I post in a month*, you get exclusive access to behind the scenes material AND the warm fuzzy feeling of supporting someone doing stuff that you like. I mean, I hope that I'm doing stuff that you like. Am I?
*That would be comics posted on Tuesdays, like this one -- not sketch dumps, announcements or fanart. Although if you like those you can just up your pledge a bit! Also, whether or not anyone pledges anything I will still be posting comics. The only difference is that with enough financial support I can update more regularly than I currently am!
February 23, 2014
Sunday Sketchpost: Woods
A little something I found in my sketchbook over the weekend and that I really, really like.
February 12, 2014
Wednesday Workpost: GTD Personalentwicklung
Last December I was asked to illustrate a greeting card for GTD-Personalentwicklung, a small Berlin-based organisation specializing in human resources development. I highly enjoyed the assignment, and it gave me the opportunity to do something you don't often see here - use colors!
This is the illustration I created for the card; you can see the full visual on my Behance portfolio as well as on the German site Dasauge.de.
Auf, auf!
February 7, 2014
Friday Sketchpost: Joe Czarnecki presents The Icarus Project
Joe's album Watch Now is one of my favorite records, right up there on my list of indispensable instrumental guitar music along with Kaki King and Kelli Rudick. Check it out!
February 4, 2014
National Hug Day
February 2, 2014
January 28, 2014
Hanging Loose: Keeping It Classy
Don't drink and discuss dating with deutsch dudes, peeps, it can only end in tears.
January 21, 2014
Hanging Loose: Kidneys
Two impossible girls go 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside
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STICKERS!!!
There are currently stickers in my store! And until Feb. 1, they only cost 1.99€ + shipping! Great for decorating your laptop with an expression of young urban cartoonist angst. Grab'em while they're physically manifest!
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