The INC. (Initiative Comic-Art) was founded 1990 in Hamburg, Germany. During the haydaysthey had up to 150 members. Everybody was working professionally in the graphic business as a comic-artist, illustrator, commercial artist, graphic designer, author, publisher, system operators and whatever these jobs are called. Their mission was to show the world, just how great and different comics are! The INC. is inactive today, but twe still meet regulary. Each first Wednesday of a month at Miller at 8.00 p.m.,
Clemens-Schulz-Str. / Ecke Annenstr., Hamburg - St.Pauli.
Under this link you find my comic-party Heftich3
report, which was published in Hit Comics #27, July 2001
(in German only).
Also the next year saw another comic-party Heftich4.
This report was published in the online comic magazine Comicgate,
November 2002 (in German only).
2001 the Inc. was honored with the ICOM special-price for outstanding archivements. For that reason, the Inc. was featured in the Comic! yearbook 2001 with an in-depth article I had the honor to write (Sorry! Also only in German).
Impressions of the Comic-Salon! Here are nice pictures of the comic convention in Erlangen and a 6-pager photo comic created by Wittek and myself. That one was published in Hit Comics #33 in July 2002.
When the INC. went into hybernation and after 7 Heftich parties, Sascha Hommer und Haina Fischer organized the 1st Hamburger Comicfestival. With fresh ideas and new concepts they started a new beginning. This is my (German) report about this event for the magazine Comixene.
The now following comic stories (not the Piccolo comics) have
been printed in small numbers in my ego-fanzine
Systemabsturz / system-crash
(April 2000).
Gezeiten des Lebens / Tide of life
1997
Created for the "4th dimension" exibition of the INC. The concept was
comics and cartoons about time. My idea was to deal with time on various
levels. Time as a physical magnitude, time as a chain of historical events
and time as a duration of life of a human. A man is dying of cancer. He
starts reflecting his life and thinking of death. In contrast to this very
personal point of view, I set quotations about the physical and philosophical
aspects of time together with pictures of "2001" (that is also dealing
with life, death and time).
Der Große Brand zu Hamburg 1842
/ The great fire of Hamburg 1842 1995
Originally created for our 2nd "Der stürmische Norden" (the stormy
north) album, that project failed to get published. Like the title suggest,
this comic is based on a true historical event. I reserched the facts for
two weeks in the state library and wrote the story in an old-fashioned
19th century style. My mother helped me with the translation into "Plattdeutsch"
(old North-German language).
Bestandsaufnahme / stock-taking
1992
That was supposed to be my contribution for the TAZ (a newspaper) about
Hamburger comic artist. But shortly before it was my turn, the series was
cancelled and the page remained unpublished.
Scheidung / Divorce
1995
Divorce was my first non-fantastic story. I surprised everybody with
that one at the Inc.-Supermarket Ehrlich billig (honestly cheap).
Keine besonderen Vorkommnisse / No
special incidences 1994
These three pages were done for the contest and exibition of the city
Elmshorn Stadt der Zukunft (City of the future).
Rituale / Rituals
1997
This one-pager was published in the Mopo (another newspaper) as the
very last part of their series about Hamburger comic artist in December
'97. Sometimes you have luck.
Sperrzone Eiderstedt / Prohibited
area Eiderstedt 1993
These were my four pages to the Schleswig-Holstein (the state north
of Hamburg at the danish border) album Der stürmische Norden published
'94 at Achterbahn Verlag. This project was quite successful, thanks to
Lutz Mathesdorf engaged efforts. The album was reprinted twice and the
originals toured a long time through Schleswig-Holstein.
Utopische Welt / Utopic World Piccolos
Utopic World was a successful anthology-fanzine, which was published
first by Christian Zeiser and later by Comic Club Hannover.
From 1987 -1992 72 issues were published in a piccolo (daily-strip) size.
In the last year also two hardcover albums were published. I'm present
in the following issues:
Drifter 2002
That short strip was already 1987 created. For the re-launch
of our Inc. Homepage I recycled
the idea and recreated it. But this time with modern computer technology!
Tunnelkrieg / Tunnel War 2002
Basend on a true story from a Vietcong veteran this comic was already
created 1989. But it was never completed, because during its creation I
becaume very unsatified with the results. I completly recreated the comic
fragment for Sprühende Phantasie #21 (Sparkling Fantasy). Now,
12 years later it was finally completed.
Das Rätsel von Phobos/ The mystery
of Phobos 2004
That's my contribution to Panik Elektro Vol.2 published by Schwarzer
Turm (Black Tower). This projekt was initiated by Wittek.
Various comic-artists devote a theme. For volume 2 250 pages about Superheroes
& Science Fiction were contributed.
Der Schläfer/ The sleeper 2005
The online Comic magazine INKplosion celebrated in October 2005 four years of excistense with a thick special edition, that also was the #25. A lot of artists were invited to contribute pages about the theme "comic". I was one of them.
Godzilla 2005
Tokyo Punk was the title of the comic party Heftich 7 in December. In 2 photocopied booklets à 64 pages many cartoonist of the German comic-scene drew their perspective about Mangas. This is my contribution.
Star Wars - a mess up hope 2005
My strip for the newspaper supplement of Panik Elektro Vol.4 about the topic "My biggest mistake". The strip was also published in the official Star Wars magazine Jornal of the Whills # 42.
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