Rotopolpress zeigt Zeichnungen aus Nina Kauns neuem Buch WIE IMMER IM FRÜHLING. Nina Kaun präsentiert die eigene Wahrnehmung als Ermessenssache. Brutalität und Poesie liegen da nah beieinander. Für ihre freien ausdrucksstarken Zeichnungen hat sie auf eine für den Siebdruck gebräuchliche Technik zurückgegriffen, bei der mit Tusche, Wachsstiften und Acrylfarbe direkt auf Folien gemalt wird. Linien und Weißflächen werden dann aus den Schwarzflächen wieder herausgekratz. WIE IMMER IM FRÜHLING ist nach AUF, AUF UND DAVON das zweite Projekt von Nina Kaun, das bei Rotopolpress erschienen ist.

Wie Immer Im Frühling
Zeichnungen von Nina Kaun
Eröffnung: Freitag, 07.02.2014
um 20.00 Uhr bei Rotopol

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At the International Comic Salon Erlangen 2014 Lescheks Flug won the ICOM-award as best independent-comic 2014.

Somewhere in space there’s Neulins, a miserable and dirty place, where the check clocks on the factory floors beat time. The population adapted to this industry-asteroid’s rough climate: Neulins is nearly solely inhabited by “maschinenmenschen”. And like all others Leschek as well should actually be a small productive cog in this wheel. But at his work station in the toyfactory the jovial robot spends more time on his daydreams than on the construction plans of the latest multi-functional-figurine. When his hard-working colleague Fattko falls victim to the final malfunction, Leschek suddenly sees himself as the sole heir of a heritage that could finally make his escape possible. But to leave Neulins for ever Leschek needs a human partner.

For his comic debut Lescheks Flight illustartor Sebastian Stamm – designer and co-developer of the multi-awarded indie game Tiny & Big – created an extraordinary action scenario: a quirky space adventure that corrodes, whirs and creaks.

Isabel Seliger überzeugt nicht nur in Technik und Ausführung, sondern schafft es darüber hinaus mit einer einzigen Zeichnung epische Bildwelten und bewegenden Handlungsstränge vor dem inneren Auge des Betrachters zu erzeugen.

anywhere but here
Zeichnungen von Isabel Seliger
Eröffnung: Freitag, 08.11.2013
um 20.00 Uhr bei Rotopol

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Es ist Frühling. Fräulein Guck-in-die-Luft sitzt am Küchenfenster ihres Turmzimmers und sieht Felsbrocken vom Himmel in den Garten stürzen. Oder sind es Vögel? Oder Schatten? Sie fallen schnell zu Boden, wie immer im Frühling. Im Laufe der Zeit werden es immer mehr und es ist ein rauer Tumult unter ihrem Dach.

Könnten Felsen so zetern,
wären die Gebirge unerträglich laut und
sie würde den Wald für immer bevorzugen.

Sie hält Ausschau. Unten im Garten lauert der Katzenmann. Er ist auf der Jagd. Er wildert im Organgarten. Seine Einladung zu Tisch nimmt sie nicht an und so treffen sich die beiden nicht in den Bildern, im Text jedoch schon.

Nina Kaun präsentiert die eigene Wahrnehmung als Ermessenssache. Brutalität und Poesie liegen da nah beieinander. Für ihre freien ausdrucksstarken Zeichnungen hat sie auf eine für den Siebdruck gebräuchliche Technik zurückgegriffen, bei der mit Tusche, Wachsstiften und Acrylfarbe direkt auf Folien gemalt wird. Linien und Weißflächen werden dann aus den Schwarzflächen wieder herausgekratz. WIE IMMER IM FRÜHLING ist nach AUF, AUF UND DAVON das zweite Projekt von Nina Kaun, das bei Rotopolpress erschienen ist.

Who is this strange doctor? Eugène has every reason to wonder. Dr. Trousseau obviously is interested in his hands and offers Eugène a job in town after a scrutiny at the very hands.
Eugène’s palms indeed have a peculiarity: When he was a child, the skin of a stranger was transplanted there. He decides to engage in the doctor’s offer and accepts the ominous job. But the incidents caused by him accepting the job are beyond his control. Eugène gets deeper and deeper into a rousing adventure in which the presence of his mysterious pursuers becomes more and more threatening.
EUGÈNE is Quentin Vijoux’s first book release and it surprises with every new page. In breezing light black-and-white drawings, he develops an exciting thriller that never lets go the reader anymore.

Translated from French by Irène Bluche.

KIIN. TO GO You always wanted to know who the authors of the KIIN.zine Ines and Kirsten are and how they look like? So you should get your hands on the new KIIN. #11. The first KIIN. without drawings but with lots of photographs of the Franconian sisters. And with stickers!

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A group of cosmic entities get together in vast space for a scientific workshop. Their initially low-brow experiments with textures and matter take form by and by. Finally the most sensitive one in the group, Ablavar, made a major invention: He creates earth and all animals living on it. For that he’s admired by all his class mates. Except Zantek. He sabotages Ablavar’s genesis and creates mankind in return. For these “Hu-mans” life on the new planet is no walk in the park, but they learn to stand their ground very quickly. Soon they not only fought their way up to the top of the food chain but also took the recreation of their world in their own hands.

“A rather cusrious level of detail
considering the limited
dimensional representation …”

In his genesis Jesse Jacobs tells the story of spacy divine visions and earthly struggles for life with extraordinary artistic skill. By This Shall You Know Him teames classic comic book storytelling with outstanding illustration art. The result is a complex visual cosmos full of bizarre characters and hypnotic shapes.

(This extract shows a selection of pages from the book.)

By This Shall You Know Him was originally published in Canada by the fantastic Koyama Press.

Press Comments:
“Reading, like a deep, exciting dream you don’t want to wake up from quickly.” – Bastian Küllenberg, Intro
Translated from English by Thomas Wellmann.

The sequel of KIINbetween #1 was created for the Ultimate Disaster Show at Rotopol and ties in with the turbulent events that has been happening around the “Super Villain Familie’s” estate.

Previously on The Super Villain Family:
“Xenovisionary” and her husband “Shell Girl” live together with their hyperactive son “Jape Jester” in the middle of nowhere. “Girlemperor” is also living there. The family hates the house but “Girlemperor” wants to fight for it. “Shell Girl” uses his super shell-power against “Girlemperor”. She’s a nordic girl and loves shells, so she wants to eat “Shell Girl”. “Xenovisionary” attacks her to save her husband – but there comes “Broil Prophet” to protect her beloved “Girlemperor”. She’s attacking “Xenovisionary”. “Shell Girl” wants to help but “Broil Prophet” just laughes at him and shows him her power. “Shell Girl” dies. “Girlemperor” wants to die as well, but “Broil Prohpet” is looking after her. “Xenovisionary” turns into “Flambéed Xenovisionary” and swears horrible revenge. Since that moment, “Girlemperor” wasn’t seen again.

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KIIN.between #2 – The Ultimate Disaster
ISBN 978-3-940304-80-3
28 pages, b/w, 14.8 x 21 cm
limited edition (100), numbered

2012 is a year full of cataclysmic events. Some of them are actually quite disastrous: our bunny beheaded our guinea pig, the good old economic crisis is still there, the awesome pink patent leather shoes are not available in my size anymore, the European countries go bust one after another, again the damn coffee is out and nobody said a word, Moebius, Maurice Sendak and democracy are dead, while bending down the pants ripped and everyone saw it, the middle east is burning, in some laboratory some mutated virus broke out and caused a zombie invasion etc. … oh right, and as everyone knows, in 2012 the world will go down with all hands! Together with you we want to examine that and have a look at all the small and big disasters that make us thoughtful or laugh.

Vernissage on
Friday, November 23, 2012 at 8 pm
at Rotopol
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 95
34119 Kassel, Germany

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Monday to Saturday
10:00 am — 1:30 pm
2:30 pm — 18:00 pm

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With featured artwork by: Maike Plenzke • Isabel Seliger • Michael Meier • Lisa Röper • Nina Kaun • Rita Fürstenau • Bene Rohlmann • Mikkel Sommer • Sebastian Stamm • Guy Vallez • Renaud Forestie • Jesse Jacobs • Ines Christine Geißer • Kirsten Carina Geißer • Karlo Ghokasian • Anton van Hertbruggen • Thomas Wellmann • Vasilli Zorin • Ugo Gattoni • Melanie Climent • Sam Vanallemeersch • Josh J. Holinaty • Talita Hoffman • Lea Heinrich • Markus Färber

Poster: Lisa Röper