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was born in 1986 in Leipzig, where she studied Illustration at the Academy of Visual Arts. In just a few years, she has become one of the most important figures of a young generation of independent comic artists around the world. Her unique style and disturbingly honest stories have won over a wide audience and her books, which have been translated into several languages, have become true classics in Europe and also in North America. Anna Haifisch was awarded the Max and Moritz Award in the category “Best German-speaking Comic Artist” by the Erlangen International Comic Salon in 2020.
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At the age of five, Lea Heinrich won fifty bucks worth of cake in a drawing contest at a local bakery. With her friends she spent it all in one day. Later she studied at the School of Art and Design in Kassel where she specialized in illustration and graphic storytelling. Since her graduation in 2012 she works as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist in Berlin and Brooklyn and still enjoys cake.
is a duo consisting of Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller. Together, they work as authors, artists and publishers and are engaged in various projects that encompass illustration, graphic design, exhibitions, publishing and teaching. They have published multiple art and children’s books together that have received the Honorary Mention of the Bologna Ragazzi Award and the Prix Libbylit Bruxelles award. Their clients include Le Monde, New York Times, Canal + and Wired. Icinori work and live in Orleans (France).
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.
(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.
Jeong-in Mun is an illustrator and comic author. She was born in 1998 in Jeju, South Korea, and majored in illustration at the HEAR (Haute école des arts du Rhin) in Strasbourg. Inspired by the works of Munch & Gorey, she delights in creating black & white ink drawings using dip pens. Her works often discusses questions of identity and belonging. She was selected for the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition in 2023 and is a member & editor of the comic collective FRED and its comics anthology’s namesake. “Long Breath” is her first graphic novel, created during an artistic residency at the Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême.
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.