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Drache Brokks published

comic, illustration, Uncategorized
Drache Brokks/ Lappan Verlag

Das neue Kinderbuch, dass ich illustriert habe ist nun im Handel erhältlich! Vielen Dank an die Autorin, Silja Luisa Topfstedt, ich hatte großen Spaß mit dem Text und Constanze Steindamm vom Lappan Verlag, sowie Anette Thumser.

Für die ganz Faulen:
https://www.amazon.de/…/pro…/3830312520/ref=cm_cr_dpvoterdr…

 

The new children´s book, which I have illustrated is now available. Many thanks to author Silja Luisa Topfstedt  (I had lots of fun with this story), Constanze Steindamm and Anette Thumser.

Here some older post wioth a little making of:

tps://derekroczen.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/brokks-entstehung-2/

Asyl in Deutschland- Die Anhörung

comic, film, illustration, Uncategorized

Yesterday was the premier of Asyl in Deutschland. For which I did the design, direction and most of animation (thanks to Kerstin Unger, Thea Seidler., Meike Teichmann and Daniel Ossio and Fade to Grey). There were lots of people involved, most of them working for free, most notably Philipp Stendebach of Augenschein Film Production whose baby this really was. I am very happy with the result. The film is intended to help asylum seekers to understand the most important part of the whole procedure the personal interview and how to prepare for it. There are versions in 14 different languages.

I guess this is Serbian:

 

There is a lot of work being done with spreading the news arround. by the way although the whole project was pretty delicate (because of the topic) this was absolutly brilliant because of the enthusiasm and spirit of the people involved.

This is the link to the homepage:

Initiative

 

Fumetto Comic

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This was for a comic contest in Switzerland. Drawing comics is hard work. This me trying to be crass and arty, which is hard if you earn your money be making children’s books. Sigmund Freud would have loved this comic (and would have started to follow my blog…)

Klett und Balmer, Die Sprachstarken 9/ Romulus der Große

comic, Dürrenmatt, illustration, Romulus der Große, School Book Illustration Das Morgenessen

This was a comic strip for Klett and Balmer “die Sprachstarken”. It illustrates a famous quip by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in which he defended his usage of Swiss words, after German critics had accused him of using dialect. Basically the Germans think Swiss is a German dialect and the Swiss think it is a separate language. I don´t want to comment on this. Romulus says Morgenessen instead of Frühstück (breakfast), and yells at his servant when he tries to correct him. I guess the play Romulus der Große is much more popular in Switzerland….

By the way I wish the Germans would spend so much diligence and love on their schoolbooks. They really do an amazing job at Klett and Balmer.

romulus_bw_derekroczen

Horses

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This has been a weird week. I have done an illustration test for a children´s book including horses aimed for girls. It very quickly turned out that the job was already gone, but my agent thought it might be a good idea to finish the samples for my portfolio. Lots of work, I am not yet sure if I managed the balance between a little kitsch and something nice.

Next time I will do football right away.