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lives and works as an illustrator and cartoonist in London, Ontario (Canada). In his work, he repeatedly links to psychedelia and alternative realities and masters social fears by presenting them in a bizarre and kaleidoscopic way.
In 2012, with “By This Shall You Know Him” (Koyama Press), he published an extraordinary account of life and its molecular forms, which set the tone for his subsequent comics “Safari Honeymoon” and “Space Crawl.” Koyama Press appeared). Other comic stories are u.a. at Kuš! (Latvia), Hollow Press (Italy) and Strane Dizioni (Italy) and his illustrations can be found on numerous posters, T-shirts and in the video game “Spinch” by Queen Bee Games. Jesse Jacobs is a recipient of the Doug Wright award, one of the most important awards for cartoonists in Canada.
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(she/they) was born in 1991 in Spain. She is an illustrator and educator with a MA at the Kunsthochschule Kassel (Germany) in Visual Communication with focus on Illustration and editorial Design. Together with Kathi Seemann she initiated the project Papiercafé, a multifunctional collective space for Self-publishing & Café in 2014. She joined the independent publishing house Rotopol as co-publisher and author in 2016 when her first book “Allé : Hier” was published. In 2017, she worked as part of the Aneducation team of documenta14 in Kassel and Athens (Greece). In October 2018 she moved to Rotterdam (Netherlands) for an artist residency at BAD Foundation and later on at NAC Foundation in the Wielewaal where she worked on a experimental research around critical thinking in visual education thanks to the research grant O&O from CBK Rotterdam. In July 2020 she initiated together with Kamiel Verschuren (NAC) the sociocultural greenhouse space Growing Space in the Wielewaal neighbourhood of Rotterdam. Since November 2020 she is a teacher and researcher in the Illustration and Social Practice departments at WDKA Art University in Rotterdam. As an illustrator and educator Carmen José is interested in questioning the reproduction of visual stereotypes, with a focus on embodied processes. In her work she aims to facilitate spaces for dialogue and coming together.
Nina Kaun was born in Kassel in 1975. After she got her diploma as an art therapist at the FH Ottersberg/Bremen in April 2005, she has been studying visual communications specialised in the fields of illustration at the School of Art and Design Kassel from 2005 to 2011.
Julia Kluge was born in 1989 and works as an illustrator and artist in Leipzig. She studied communication design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and completed a master’s degree in illustration at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her illustrations and comics have been published and shown in multiple books, magazines and exhibitions. Julia also gives workshops on (comic) drawing and accompanies events as a graphic recorder.
Since 2003 the class of Illustration & Comic at the Kunsthochschule Kassel exists in its present form under the direction of Professor Hendrik Dorgathen. In the academic year 2016/17 the illustrator Lea Heinrich supervised the class as a guest lecturer.
(she/they) studied Visual Communication at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. Her clients include The New Yorker, The New York Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, ZeitLeo, Maro Verlag and Ventil Verlag. Some of her comics have already been published in the form of zines in very small print runs. Katharina Kulenkampff is part of the artist collective SPRING and her comics regularly appear in the anthology of the same name published by Mairisch Verlag. She lives and works as a comic artist and illustrator in Berlin.
was born in Denmark in 1994. Following her bachelor’s degree at the Kolding Designskole (DK), she studied comics and graphic storytelling under Anke Feuchtenberger at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW). After several smaller publications in magazines, self-published editions or publications within the context of exhibitions, Kaja Mayer completed her Master’s degree with her book project „Was drängst Du denn so wunderlich, Mein Herz?“ which will be released by Rotopol in the fall.
was born in Brilon, Germany, in 1982. On this day, it snowed. Her artistic practice merges painting and graphic storytelling. Moki studied Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg and her paintings and multi-media work are shown in galleries and exhibitions across the globe. Among her publications are art books and comics, including regular contributions for anthologies like “Spring”. Her comics, of which many are set in fantastical-surreal landscapes, often make use of unusual narrative techniques including the lack of conventional panels and page limits. Moki lives and works in Berlin.
is an artist and writer who works across installation, drawing, and publishing. After two longer stays in Algiers, their poetic travel report “Lichtpause” was published by Rotopol in 2017. In 2019, Nino Bulling’s book „Bruchlinien: Drei Episoden zum NSU“ was published by Spector Books. Bulling’s first fictional comic book „Firebugs“ was originally released in 2022 as part of their contribution to documenta fifteen in Kassel, alongside an exhibition and extensive public program revolving around trans and queer strategies in graphic publishing. Their most recent publication to date is the anthology „Cutes: Collected Queer and Trans Comics“, co-edited with Nour Hifaoui and Joseph Kai of Samandal collective. Nino Bulling lives and works in Berlin.