Die Ahnung - Zone 5300 Cover

Since I'm posting Lovecraft related stuff, I guess now is as good a time as any to post my recent cover artwork for the Dutch magazine  Zone 5300 (that Marcel is involved in). The issue featured also my Lovecraft-Kubin crossover short comic Die Ahnung (Premonition), which was originally part of the German-Austrian Lovecraft comic-anthology "Echo des Wahnsinns".

The little painting in the bottom right corner was actually done by Alfred Kubin in 1906.

Bilderberg Chick Tracts

About ten days ago we had the third installment of our Bilderberg Konferenz underground comixfest here in Berlin, and it certainly was great fun indeed. Like every year we produced a "conference publication", a comix zine which every visitor got for the (very small) admission fee. This year's theme was "A Tribute to Jack T. Chick" and instead of only one zine we actually made a set of 8 different little pamphlets very similar in appearance to Chick's own tracts. They contain comix by 25 different artists and seven of them have flip covers.
Here's what they look like:

It's interesting that, like with our Garfield zine from last year, several people told us that they couldn't participate - even though they wanted to- because they didn't agree with the theme. Garfield put some people off for aesthetic reasons, and Chick did the same for ideological reasons.

Anyway, I edited and layouted the whole thing and while I made some small mistakes (mainly mispelling some of the contributors' names) I am still quite pleased with how they turned out.

This is my own contribution:

Dreamquest Illustrations

So this coming August the H.P.Lovecraft-convention NecronomiCon is going to take place in Providence, Rhode Island, and I will be showing some artwork in the accompanying art show Ars Necronomica among a whole bunch of other creators (our own Kurt Komoda being one of them).

Here are two illustrations of scenes in Lovecraft's "Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath" which are probably gonna be on display there. My illustrations are not super true to what's in the original text, but on an emotional level I guess they capture the gist of what's going on.

"From the motions of their tentacles Carter could see that the blunt-snouted moon-beasts were enjoying the spectacle hugely, and vast was his horror when he suddenly recognised the frantic meeping and knew that the tortured ghouls were none other than the faithful trio which had guided him safely from the abyss and had thereafter set out from the enchanted wood to find Sarkomand and the gate to their native deeps."

"Thick though the rushing nightmare that clutched his senses, Randolph Carter could turn and move. He could move, and if he chose he could leap off the evil shantak that bore him hurtlingly doomward at the orders of Nyarlathotep. He could leap off and dare those depths of night that yawned interminably down, those depths of fear whose terrors yet could not exceed the nameless doom that lurked waiting at chaos’ core. He could turn and move and leap—he could—he would—he would—
Off that vast hippocephalic abomination leaped the doomed and desperate dreamer, and down through endless voids of sentient blackness he fell."

Liquefaction Dance

Hi folks,
sorry for not posting in ages! I'll post more in the coming weeks, promise.
I'm currently back in Portland OR again, working on all sorts of stuff.
Here's a sketchbook doodle which I inked for fun.

Melvins gig poster

Here's a silkscreen poster I designed for one of my favorite bands, the Melvins. 

 

 

Berlin - Cancer City

I don't think I've posted this one before: it's my contribution to the cool underground comics anthology APUCKALYPSE which came out about three years ago. Every artist had one page to tell what happens in their city during the apocalypse. I had the honor to represent Berlin.

Besonders Wertlos

I recently designed this wrap-around cover and some interior vignettes for the book: "Besonders Wertlos", a collection of film reviews and other articles by Jörg Buttgereit.
The vignettes accompany the respective articles' titles and represent their subjects, and the idea was to have all the vignettes appear somewhere on the cover.
I made about 50 vignettes in total. Some are fairly hidden on the cover or only represented indirectly, but it should be easy to spot the nine below.

BILDERBERG featuring Ray Murphy & Molluskhead

Here's my contribution to the Bilderberg Zine. It's a cover version of a page from Swamp Thing.

Wanted!

Here's a little Ray Murphy one-pager I did for the Portland zine Vision Quest.

Phone Doodles 2

Hey everybody, I recently moved back to Berlin after an intersting and eventful year in Portland. Sorting out my stuff I found a bunch of new telephone doodles which happened mostly while talking to my friends and family overseas.
As usual I don't even recall doing the majority of these.

 

 

UNWELT cover

So here's the final cover design for the comic I mentioned in the previous post.

UNWELT inks

Here are inks of the cover and the interior cover for UNWELT, a little book which I'm putting together: a collection of Lovecraft-related work of mine. The CthulhuCon Portland is coming up, soon, and with a little luck I should have some ready in time for Linework

 

The Things We Do

 

 

These are a couple of panels from a new Ray Murphy comic I finished recently. The story is a loose adaptation of a chinese fairy tale, and I made it for a fairy tale-themed German-Chinese anthology project.

FuFu News

Hey everyone, sorry for the long absense.
Stuff has happened in the meantime, locations have changed, drawings have been drawn.

As some of you know I've moved to Portland, Oregon with my family a few months ago, which means I share one territory with Sean now... although, the place has been so thouroughly overtaken by him and his PORKfaced goblin hordes, raping and pillaging everywhere, I mostly stay safely hidden in my basement apartment, scribbling away on various projects, only daring to leave home during dusk and dawn.

As usual, I've been doing the odd RPG illustrations here and there, some in black and white...

 

illustrations for "The Islands of Purple-Haunted Putrescence", by Venger Satanis

... others in color:

illustrations for "Splittermond", by Uhrwerk Verlag

Last but not least, I've just finished drawing a short comic which will soon appear in the second issue of Captain Berlin, written by Jörg Buttgereit.

Here are two sample pages:

Well, that's it for now. I'll try not to take so long until my next post.

Octobriana / Time Machine

Here's a thing I just did for Jean-Jacques Tachdjian's art-zine "Couverture" - a magazine consisting only of covers. The topic for this new one is "Sexy Science-Fiction of the Post-Stalinist Age". I went for a Octobriana meets Time Machine late 60s comic cover:

The zine will be printed in duotone and at this point the two colors haven't been chosen yet, so it's possible the final result will probably look a bit different.

The list of artists contributing to this is pretty inpressive and there's a crowd funding campaign going on to pay for the printing of the zine, so if anyone's interested in ordering an issue / supporting this project check out this link.

Updates

So, this is going to be kind of a general update post about things I've already blogged about, rather than about some particular new thing I've done lately.


 After being published as a supplement in Zone 5300 last year, my zombie card game Zombory came out in Germany a few weeks ago. For the new version I redesigned the logo and drew several new pairs - it now has 30 zombie/human pairs. Also, with some help of a co-designer, I fleshed out (no pun intended) the additional rules which I had only sketched down when I first came up with the idea. So Zombory - while still playable by the classic memory rules - now has it's own zombie-themed game mechanics and has evolved into a fun little game of its own. The game rules are being translated at the moment so I have the hope that there will be an english version at some point.  Here's the new logo and three of the new card pairs.

Last year I posted some illustrations I had done for the world's longest (apparently) adventure game book, Reiter der Schwarzen Sonne (Rider of the Black Sun). The book did rather well for something so old-school, so recently the second, revised edition came out, to which I was asked to contribute several additional drawings and a new cover. There is talk of an english edition which will hopefully be coming out in the close future.
These are two of the new illustrations:

 

Finally, I did a couple new T-shirt designs...  these are three of them: