I am featured in this visual catalogue of contemporary drawing and illustration practice. It was published recently by Anova Books and compiles international contemporary artists & illustrators. It’s not a ‘show-and-tell’ book but more of a visual source for creatives to dip into and gain insight as well as inspiration for their own work. Thanks to Martin Dawber for this feature.

400 pages, ISBN: 9-781-9063-8831-7, £20.00, Anova Books, http://www.anovabooks.com/

Everybody has some pictures in their mind when it comes to famous moves that musicians have created on stage. Everybody knows the Moonwalk (and if however you managed to forget it your memory surely has been refreshed in the last couple of days) – and several more. I teamed up with Andreas Feuerstein (text) and we made a series about famous moves everybody has stuck in their head. As the new issue of Landjäger is devoted to your physical exercises – “Poses For Eternity” is a part of it and has been published this week.
You can order the magazine online at landjäger.at for 4 Euros plus shipping. The launch party is on Saturday, 25th July 2009.

Angus Young – cleaning the stage with his school trousers.

Grace Jones as you know her from the Island Life Cover.
“An incarnation of the devil!” as her uncle, the bishop of Jamaica wrote.

The cover illustration for Landjäger. Freddy Mercury – stuck in eternity.

Look what the postman brought today. The new issue of the Landjäger Magazine straight from Austria in which I once again had the honour to take part in. When I got the briefing in the first place I thougt: Is it cool or more weird than cool? A magazine made out of beermats? I have to say it’s really great! It seems as if they are made for magazines. Once again Landjäger features some great pictures and wise words. And can you remember the last time you could choose your favourite illustration from a magazine and have it with your favourite pint of beer?

Above, my beermat illustration: An ordinary good old English pub. But something has happened.

You can order it here for 2 Euros plus shipping.

“Die vierte Ausgabe des Illustrationsjahrbuchs Freistil beweist Mut zur Reduktion und präsentiert nur schwarzweiße Illustrationen.” art am 17. 4. 2009

Irit Bahle sprach für art, das Kunstmagazin mit Herausgeber Raban Ruddigkeit über den Beruf des Illustrators, die Stärken gezeichneter Bilder und die Zukunft der Illustration.
Raban äußert darin seine aktuellen Forderungen an die Illustration: “Wir haben in den letzten Jahren einen handwerklichen Schub erlebt. Es gibt sehr viele tolle Arten der Umsetzung. Woran es mangelt, sind die guten Ideen. Es fehlt der Mumm, freche, radikale, böse, emotionale Ideen zu haben und auch umzusetzen. Vieles von dem, was man zurzeit sieht, ist reine Oberfläche. Eine Illustration fängt dann an stark zu sein, wenn eine gute Idee dahinter steckt. Dazu gehört eine gute Ausbildung, dazu gehört aber vor allem auch eine ganze Menge Mut beim Einzelnen.”

Komplettes Interview auf art-magazin.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/

My portrait series “Loser” is published in the latest issue of the Austrian award winning fanzine (or do I have to say magazine?) “Landjäger”. The topic of this issue is “failing” and my series are portraits of failing sportstars in their tearful moments. Landjäger is done with lot of love in the Austrian mountains. You can order the magazine online at landjäger.at for 4 Euros and shipping. Discover the tragic stories behind the tears of those mighty men and women.
When Christian Feurstein, the art director of Landjäger presented me proudly the new issue I discovered why it’s worth to contribute to Landjäger: I got three mags for free and had a great skiing day with Christian in the sunny Austrian mountains.

The Failing issue – a good lecture for those days of failing…

Christian Feurstein, passionated art director and amazing snowboarder

Loser: My new series with a crying John Terry in Moscow…

… a crying Michael Ballack also in Moscow, Peter Müller, crying 1956 in Portland…

… a crying Christiano Ronaldo in Lisbon, a crying Merry Decker in Los Angeles…

… also with crying Gazza in Turino and Janine Beermann and Fanny Rinne, crying in Benjin…

… and of course you shouldn’t miss him in an Austrian magazine: Herrmann Maier, crying in Are. Next to him is Carsten Janker, crying in Barcelona – I’m sure you know why?