"B as in Berlin"

A comic project that was launched a year ago.
The setting is the present Berlin, with the central character Held, a sort of Guardian Angel with a shrouded past. It introduces diffrent characters as the Pain Junkie or the Shaman, a strange little boy who lives at the city's roof-tops. A lot of coloruful characters that were inspired by our environment and sometimes based into local celebrities. The novel also caricatures various facets of the city.
It is crime-action spiced with german humor and was once launched for an advertisment by arte. Nevertheless, for now it's in deep freeze.














Some of the characters were overdrawn at the beginning, so they became almost clicheé archetypes that were but easy to play with; the corrupt police-chief or the club-
hanging thief- girl whom Helt wants to protect. And, of course, the small-time criminals and street-thugs.







































Helt watching over root-tops/ two character ideas
















Shady night-life guises











The Pain Junkie would light his cigarettes with the filter first...






















































The shaman was an early fixed figure in the story and would act as Helt's friend and mentor. Originally he was thought a elderly fogey in the fashion of mentor-figures; yet he was more fun as a small boy who lives on the roofs and share his food with his pigeon-friends.












One of the thoughest gangs in Kreuzberg-Neukölln
is led by a guy wth a scull-mask.




















A panel-layout for the first page shows Helt having a curywurst-breakfeast
while wating for the metro. Two school-kids are slightly intimidated by the hulky guy.

"Afrique"

A little while ago there was an attempt to create a comic-book that would carry the name 'Afrique'.
It would feature a collection of short-storys written by Jan Maroske and would be based in a utopic post-apocalyptic settings in far-future Africa. The attempt rests but is not canceled. The furthest developed story is named after its central character Rarab, a girl that transforms herself into an assasin to avenge the murder of her tribes-people. All the storys feature a traditional heritage and archaic plots around semi-sci-fi technology.













Apart from flying or hovering vehicles and firearms, people in the setting would still be using ancient hunting weapons and clothing, would live in hive-like multi-family-cocoons or in tree-villlages. We stole ideas from everywhere to fertilize our owns.













Rarab's story was planned to follow a certain color-code of earthy colours, if not in style of drawing but rather in terms of colour reminding of cave-paintings. I fancy colour-coding a bit since Miller`s "300", yet don`t master it. A lot of drawings turned out to lack contrast somehow.