On my travels to comics art and animation events around the world…I have studied the creative work of many notable artists. Sometimes I have even managed to meet and converse with them. This post starts with an image from an event in Asia then moves to Europe, in Germany. It’s a catalyst for a series of blogs with a fun photo to begin…the Taiwan International Animation Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2004. In future posts I shall feature some of my travels to events such as this…starting in Europe with Germany and followed by France, Japan and Australia and finally U.S.A. So, off to Germany we go to start my journey!
COMIC SALON, ERLANGEN, GERMANY, 2014
A decade after my visit to Taiwan I travelled to Germany. In the town of Erlangen where there was a comics festival, the 16th Internationaler Comic-Salon Erlangen Max und Moritz created by German comics creator Wilhelm Busch. I had previously visited his museum in Hanover(see photo below).
The Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover, an entire institution named after this pioneer in comics history. I was fortunate to find and purchase a book about him and his work at the museum shop. I also saw examples of his creative work on the gallery walls. (Photo-©2014 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics) (Photo-©2019 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
Street poster for the Comic Salon, the comics festival in Erlangen, Germany. The poster carries the anti-war theme of the festival. This was expressed in the work of French comics artist Jacques Tardi (in the poster)…and in the work of American comics artist Joe Sacco (Photo-©2014 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics) Entrance to the comics festival in Erlangen. (Photo-©2014 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics) Inside along a section of the comics festival. There was an accompanying outside section in a large tent, as well. (Photo-©2014 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics) In Erlangen Joe Sacco, creator of the graphic novel The Great War staged two exhibitions of his work…one in a hall at the exhibition site…another in the main square in front of the Town Hall. Both displayed a continuous single panel spread over 24 pages representing a connected scene from one moment of the war. (Photo-©2014 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics) A two panel section of Joe Sacco’s installation of his graphic novel The Great War …across the main square of the town of Erlangen, Germany. It was a new experience for me to literally walk through a comic…but that was Sacco’s rule of engagement in this instance. (Photo-©2014 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics) Another major exhibition at the festival was Landscape of Death, the anti-war graphic work of French comics artist Jacques Tardi. (Photo-©2014 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics) Launching an issue of my own comic…BLOTTING PAPER: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics…at the festival in Erlangen…with support from my German colleagues…L to R: Louise Graber, Professor Michael Mahlstedt, me, Professor Markus Fischmann, and student Krisi.) There was also a large section in the exhibition featuring the FINN FAMILY MOOMINTROLL graphic work of Tove Jansson. (Photo by Louise Graber) My TRAVELS posts form part of my graphic based material that includes…painting, printmaking, cartooning and scrapbooking including artwork for my comic and graphic novel BLOTTING PAPER .
(All text, photos and artwork-©2019 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics).
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Doctor Comics says on June 23, 2023
A bit long…and I have more material on French comics artist Jacques Tardi that I could add…another post perhaps?
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