For  the German travel magazine Geo Saison I illustrated the dossier with the topic „How to travel ethically correct?“: a first page and five full doublespreads.
How should we behave as independent travellers in foreign countries? Should we take the offered but forbidden corals as a gift? Should we give our money to the begging streetkids – or is a biro enough – or is it best to give nothing at all? Geo Saison tries to answer those questions and many more.

You can order the November issue (No. 11) of Geo Saison here.
Unfortunately it’s not bilingual – only German.

I illustrated a new book which was just released last week. The Bregenzerwald is a small rural area in Austria near the Lake of Constance and very close to the Alps. The spoken language is German but with a really special accent called „Bregenzerwälderisch“ – nearly impossible to understand for normal German speaking people.
Super BFG, the design company of this German – Bregenzerwälderisch dicitionary invited me to travel through their lovely mountain area, together with my sketchbook, pencils and Christian Feurstein as my personal translator. It was a great research: tasty food, breathteaking landsacapes, lovely people.

Life’s a quest. Therefore we called our new issue of Landjäger Magazine a “Self-Discovery”. Part of it are portraits I drew of current realigning dictators. Here you can see the leftover styles of al-Assad, al-Aziz, al-Gaddafi and Mubarak.

You can order the magazine for 6 Euros plus shipping at http://www.landjaeger.at/wildern/

The underground line U8 in Berlin is the German capital’s most frequented drug lane for heroine. Police and politics seem to be helpless to fight this problem as long the dealers are eleven year-old kids. Having been brought to Germany from countries such as the Lebanon they are too young to be arrested or taken to court.

For the German magazine “Neon” Patrick Bauer and I tried to get a deeper look into the daily business life of those kids. How does it feel like working all day long in the underground, how do they deal with the junkies and how with the police? How does the system work which abuses them? Is there a tiny leftover of childish cuteness and innocence or are they as serious drug dealers as their bosses?

To start with we went underground and secretely researched for days in the tube and its surroundings. Patrick tried to find some guys who weren’t too afraid of speaking and I did loads of on-location scribbles.

After the kids got nervous and thought we were undercover police agents, alerting themselves with secret signs, I stopped my research and discussed a selection of over 40 scribbles with the magazine’s art director Jonas Natterer. After deciding on five of those sketches I reworked them in my studio and created the final artwork with ink.

So, here’s what it loos like in this month’s issue:

Read the full story in the Neon Magazine’s December issue.

Lately Landjäger released its latest issue. And finally I made it to one of the release parties in Austria. It was good to see you guys! For the topic “neighbours” I interviewed some of mine about the people who live on the other side of their walls and did some drawings. During the work on this issue some happy news arrived: The two latest Landjäger Magazines won the bronze medal at the European Design Awards.

You can order it here for 4 Euros plus shipping.

Now you can buy our first three issues of the Shake Your Tree Edition online. Our website is up and running.

www.syt-edition.net

Every issue focuses on one upcoming German writer and one visual artist who present new work, exclusively created for the Shake Your Tree Edition. Our zines are handcrafted and screenprinted limited editions, every single one of them signed by the artists. Edition 2 comes with four original photo prints by Tanja Kernweiss.

This is how we started:

Edition Nr.1 – Frank Höhne & Juliane Liebert
Edition Nr.2 – Tanja Kernweiss & Ulrike Almut Sandig
Edition Nr.3 – Manuel Bürger & Jörg Albrecht

…and others will follow!