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is an illustrator, author and publisher of the award-winning publishing house Rotopol for graphic storytelling. Since co-founding the publishing house in 2007, she has published high-quality books by exciting talents with personal drawing and storytelling styles. Rita Fürstenau was born in Berlin in 1982 and moved to Kassel in 2001 for her studies. Here she studied visual communication with a focus on illustration at the School of Arts and Design and primary school teaching and educational science at the University of Kassel. In 2006, while she was still studying, she founded the “Verlag ohne Titel” which then became the Rotopol publishing house. In addition to her artistic and publishing work, she occasionally works in children’s and youth education and teaches as a guest lecturer in the areas of illustration and graphic storytelling at various universities, including the Kassel Art University, The Animation Workshop Viborg (DK), the University of Sofia (BG) and Fudan University in Shanghai (CN). Her clients as an illustrator include Bahlsen, Google, Goldkinder-Magazin and the Hessen Kassel Museum Landscape. Her own work is published by Rotopol in the form of books, folded booklets and printed paper goods and can be found together with the rest of the publishing program and a large number of comic and picture books from all over the world in her bookstore in Kassel.
Website: rita-fuerstenau.de
Instagram: instagram.com/rita_fuerstenau/
is a trained graphic designer and mainly illustrates books for children and adolescents. As a comic book author, he made a name for himself with the humorous adventures of Bob the postman from space and received several awards for his comic series. His work, which is stylistically in the tradition of Ligne Claire, is often described as thoughtful and is full of characters with strong personalities. As an illustrator, he works for clients in the cultural and advertising sectors. Born in Rimouski, he now lives in Quebec, Canada.
, born in 1989, studied at the Studio of Illustration and Graphics at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He is one of the best-known illustrators in the Czech Republic and his books for children and adults have already been translated into several languages. He specializes in illustration, sign painting and graphic design. As a member of Xao, a collective of comic artists and illustrators that has been running a gallery, bookshop and publishing house on Krymská Street in Prague since 2016, he organizes exhibitions, art workshops for children, readings and book launches.
was born in 1988 and grew up in Siberia. She has studied in St. Petersburg, Paris and Berlin and now works as journalist and photographer. She works with refugees and on various international projects.
lives and works as a cartoonist in Düsseldorf. Since the publication of her groundbreaking “Ambient Comics” with Rotopol, she has published many further books. These include the emotional examination of the inner life of “Stones”, the hateful love letter “I Hate You – You Just Don’t Know It Yet” and her meditation on fear in “Paniktotem”. Her latest book, “Doing the Work” is dedicated to the struggles of everyday existence. Nadine Redlich’s cartoons and comics can be found in various media including the New York Times, DIE ZEIT, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frieze Magazine, Le Monde and the Elbphilharmonie Magazine.
is originally from a small town in Saxony, who someone used to say about »is good for hiking if you are old«. Over the years he published many short stories, mostly about »supporting actors« of the wonderful story of life. In 2015, his first Graphic Novel »Plus Minus Null« was released, a book about self-reflection and lethargy. It became finalist of the »Comicbuchpreis der Berthold Leibinger Stiftung« the same year. He works and lives in Kassel.
is an artist and illustrator with a special preference for quiet and epic worlds.
Anne Simon was born in 1980 and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angoulême and at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In 2004, she was awarded the Young Talent Prize at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême. Anne Simon is very active in the French independent publishing house MISMA, where she has already published several books of her own and for whose anthology Dopututto Max she regularly writes short stories. Her works appear regularly in newspapers, magazines and in the form of picture books. For more than ten years, she has been writing and drawing the saga of the land of Marylène in which she skillfully weaves social issues into epic narratives with strong protagonists.
Alice Socal wurde 1986 in Venedig geboren. Sie begann ihr Studium in Illustration und Comic an der Kunst Akademie von Bologna und beendete dieses bei Anke Feuchtenberger und Stefano Ricci an der HAW in Hamburg. Sie zeichnet gerne kurze GIF-Animationen für ihren Tumblr-Blog und lebt und arbeitet als Illustratorin in Hamburg.