May 8, 2013

Germany trip #11

Lately I've been a bit too busy to scan the last pages of my comic, but let's continue!
Last month we left Lübeck and went to our last Germany-stop: Hamburg!
To be continued...

April 15, 2013

Germany trip #8

The Baltic Comic project is over and Mark and I leave Kiel to start our holiday... in Lübeck!

(Actually the village called Leuk (='like' in Dutch) is in Switzerland.)



To be continued....

April 10, 2013

Germany trip #7

The final evening of the Baltic Comic project: The Baltic Comic.... COMIC BATTLE!
So that was the end of the Baltic Comic project, but not the end of our trip to Germany;
Still much more comics to upload!

Germany trip #6

The Baltic Comic projects comes to an end. We've all moved to Kiel for the exhibition of our work.
To be continued....
The above is a comic about comic translations, that I made before the workshops. 
This comic was also shown at the exhibition, together with the 'redrawn' version of
Allan Haverholm (just like I redrew the story of Gregor Hinz, see previous post).
But I forgot to take a proper pic of Allan's comic because I liked his sketches so much:
My comic was about translation, so of course it was extremely difficult to draw it without
any text. That's why I love Allan's solution of translating it into an abstract visual language!

Then the translators had also translated all comics into German. Because I had some time to
spend (and couldn't make a new print) I simply redrew my comic with the German text:

April 9, 2013

Germany trip #5

My traveldiary continues with more notes from lectures:
Comics from Allan Haverholm (based on my comic), Gregor Hinz (lion) and 
Mari Ahokoivu (hair).

This comic from Gregor Hinz from Germany was the comic I had to 'redraw'. Our assignment
was to draw an interpretation of the comic without using any words. 
This story is about a boy finding an astronaut on the street, keeping him in a shed for a few days, 
and when the 'astronaut' still hasn't moved, he opens his suit and amber comes out!?!?!

I thought the story could either be just the boy's imagination (based on a Playmobil toy), it could 
be real (with the 'astronaut' being a dead motorcyclist), or it could be surreal (with an alien). 
So I tried to incorporate all three explanations into one comic:
More comics to come!