Just a quick note:

You will find me tomorrow on the Comic Festival at the Moritzbastei in Leipzig. I will present my book “Selbsthändig” and do a book signing. Starting at 12am at the stand of the Illustratoren Organisation.

If you happen to be in Leipzig, come around!

Leipziger Comicfest, Sa 29.08.2009 10:00-20:00, Moritzbastei, Universitätsstraße 9, Leipzig http://www.leipziger-comicfest.de

My interview with star illustrator David Foldvari has now been published in English.

Lately a great book about illustration has hit the market which gives you the chance to read one of the interviews I have conducted for my book “Selbsthändig” in English. As a preview of “Selbsthändig” it features some of my illustrations and a big part of the interview I did with Dave.

Editor Raban Ruddigkeit calls Freistil Black “the biennial of European commercial illustration in book form” and is also showing his daring by using only black and white works for this year‘s issue of Freistil.
Printed in six colours, including lacquer and extra black!

Euro 39,80 ISBN 978-3-87439-769-8, order: http://www.typografie.de/

I am in Würzburg today. I am invited to
present my book Selbsthändig at my old university as part of
a Symposium about Illustration.

Illustration Symposium
FH Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Münzstr. 12, Würzburg
13. 01. 09, 4:30 – 9 pm

See you there!

 In ihrer aktuellen Ausgabe schreibt die PAGE über Selbsthändig und meine Interviews mit verschiedenen Illustratoren.

“Die Erkenntnisse aus diesen Gesprächen teilt er netterweise mit allen, die ebenfalls Illustratoren werden wollen, in einem äußerst unterhaltsamen Buch, in dem er die Interviewsituationen durch eigene Skizzen lebendig werden lässt.”

Gleichzeitig erschien diese Woche ein netter Artikel über das Buch in der Esslinger Zeitung, der hier nachzulesen ist.

If you are around in Brighton keep your eyes open for the new issue of the Vacuum Magazine. It is published by Permanent Gallery and Grey Area and I had the chance to do some new work for them. Thanks to Laura and Matt.

I am going to travel now to Frankfurt where I will stay during the 60th Frankfurt Book Fair. I will do some signing of my new book “Selbsthändig”. Come to „Kleinod“, Färbergasse 65 in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen this Thursday (October 16th) to get your signed copy! Starts at 18:30. Illustrators Organisation Come Together Party. Free Entry. I am looking forward to meet you there.

The book competition on Designtagebuch found two lucky winners. Each of them won a copy of my book “Selbsthändig”. Congratulations to them! Thank you Achim for the competition. You can find there a big link collection to some really nice artists.