Went to the US in late March. My dear cousin Steffi got married to her fiancee P.J (hi guys!!) and I had a great time in Portland (OR) I must say. Just got back to Germany a day before they lifted the flight ban on German air traffic, so I travelled home from Amsterdam via train, which was actually quite an enjoyable, short trip. Oh, I don’t know if I mentioned, but I got an Ipad!! Yes, I finally bought my first Apple product. I needed a portable internet device and netbooks are soo 2009… ;-) Okay, let’s quit joking around and get down to business!
Product news:
Available in Germany only is our spectular Mephisto magazine, issue 48 featuring everything about “Die Zwerge” by author Markus Heitz and also some new illos for the Degenesis RPG, and now you can check it all out by going HERE. Also in Germany: We have our first own free comic book day – GRATIS COMIC TAG. And Weissblechcomics releases a nice little book featuring a 4 page story I drew for author Levin Kurio in Horrorschocker #19. Get it for free in good German comic stores on May 8th. By the way, issue #21 (available in the online shop) features another Charon pinup by yours truly.
In the works:
Two covers for the Best-Of series of Transformers books, not saying who will be on those but both are well known characters, one Autobot one Decepticon, whoot! Also on my desk, a new cover for the widely known Batttletech miniatures game, so it’s big robots all the way for me in the coming weeks. Except for the semiars I am giving at the VHS institute and Bielefeld universtity in the coming weeks. Another side project is trying to translate and convert some of my comics work into Ipad and PSP material. Some of my IDW books are already available in the aforementioned formats. Anybody interested in more?
Events:
Wondercon and C2E2 where great! Check out this news bit from the able folks at Comic Book Resources.com about the G.I. Joe Panel which I attended at C2E2 in Chicago, including photo! Want more? Go to TheTerrordrome.com and read this transcription of an interview taken at Wondercon in San Francisco, also comes with a photo where you see me scribbling on an Ipad on April 4th.
Next event I will attend will be the Comicsalon in Erlangen on June 3rd. Also planned for summer are San Diego comic con and Gencon Indianapolis but that is not set in stone yet.
Deutschland News:
Die Verhandlungen mit der VHS sehen gut aus für den Farb-Workshop im September, hier noch mal 2 Sätze dazu: „Für das Wintersemester ist ein Digital-Painting/Digital Coloring Wochenendseminar an der VHS Bielefeld angedacht. Wer das interessant findet sollte mir per Kontaktformular eine E-mail schreiben – je mehr Interesse ich vorweisen kann bei der VHS, je realistischer die Chance dass ich den Kurs anbieten kann. Ich gucke was ich machen kann (Vorraussetzung sind übrigens, Grundkenntnisse in English und Photoshop!).“ Ansonsten hoffe ich man sieht sich in Erlangen zum Comicsalon! Und zu allerletzt noch, was ganz Wichtiges: Ja, es stimmt. Ich habe ein Ipad! :-)