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Dirk Schwieger

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Berlin-based comic artist (he/him, white) trapped in a tech bubble. Posting for help in 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 about comics, queerness, digital privacy and Elves. :fediverse […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.art/@dirk, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 11mo ago

Happy #FollowFriday! These are 5 comic artists from my city – Berlin – you should subscribe to: @mawil @Elke_Renate_Steiner @jorisbasbacker @Ullilust @thilokrapp 👉 Which 5 comic artists from your city or region are an inspiration to you? #comics #comic #graphicnovels #graphicnovel #mastoArt […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 11mo ago

Name the Elves! #comics #comicart #mastoart #fediart #elves #popCulture #comic

A black and white comic drawing, here and there blue pencil. In landscape format, it shows a group of nine characters side by side, depicting Elves from various pop culture backgrounds, like movies, musc, animation, comics, and anime.
I won't spoil who is who for the moment, but will edit this alt text in one week to reveal the characters.

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 11mo ago

I met this Manga artist at a book fair this spring and bought two of her books. Today I wrote her how impressed I am with her work, and how exceptional her drawings/flow/humor/dialogues are - which they truly are. She was so, so happy! Immediately wrote back a long email and shared how she was […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 11mo ago

The poetry of these children arises from the fact that we find in them all the problems, all the sufferings of the adults, who remain offstage. [...] They are the monstrous infantile reductions of all the neuroses of a modern citizen of industrial civilization […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Drawing by Charles M. Schulz of all the main characters of his comic strip Peanuts, which debuted on this day 75 years ago.

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 11mo ago

Name the Elves! #comics #comicart #mastoart #fediart #elves #popCulture #comic

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 12mo ago

Went to my kids' school yesterday for parents' night, and boy did my body exactly know what to do: Huddle in the back row, mind-wandering mode on, scribble for your life! It was like I never left. #dadtoot #artistslife

Crappy picture of my notebook.
Apart from, well, notes, it shows what I doodled with my pen during parents' night: First it was a rock with some moss and grass, then came a whole underwater world with plants, a snail, a big fish and some smaller ones as well as creepy eyes in an underwater cave.

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Night time. Three figures walk up a set of stairs. They are in fact Penrose stairs, an impossible object which one can walk up endlessly.
Low on the side of the stairs is a window. Another figure leans out and shouts up at the walkers:
“Guys! I'm sure it's not easy being trapped in an endless paradox representing the limited nature of human perception, but some of us are trying to sleep down here!”

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 12mo ago

Welp, the next few comic pages will be a wee bit wonky :BlobCat_Bandage: #comic #comics #artist #artistslife #artistsonmastodon

A hand in front of a grassy background, the pinky is wrapped in an orthesis (for the next couple of weeks).

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

How I wish this #manga by Mizuki Shigeru would be translated into English! He portrays the life of one of Japan’s most fascinating intellectuals, Kumagusu Minakata – naturalist, Buddhist micobiologist and probably Japan’s first environmental activist. 1/2 […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

A black and white double page of a manga drawn by Mizuki Shigeru. I don't understand the Japanese word balloons, but across these pages, you can see the protagonist, Kumagusu Minakata, having drinks and talking to other older men, you can see trees, talking cats and weird microscopic fungal structures - an interesting mix!

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

GPT-5 plateau-ing is giving me hope that maybe all isn't lost 🌍💚🤞 #ai #gpt5 #ClimateChange #climateCrisis

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

The feeling when you realize you're in nature. #comic #comics #makingComics #tfw #workInProgress

Black and white drawing of a comic page showing just on image: A small figure from behind way down on the page, looking at a towering mountain range in front of them. Above, and taking up most of the page, dramatic cloud structures swirl.

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

I’m a huge admirer of comic artist Larry Marder, and love this #FantasticFour-themed cover by him. It was FF-co-creator #JackKirby who – through his art – introduced Marder to Native American designs, especially #Hopi kachinas. Very elegant how this abstract […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

A cover of Larry Marder's comic book "Tales of the Beanworld" issue number 19, published by Eclipse comics in 1991.
At the top you can see Heyoka, the bean who does everything upside-down and backwards bean, flying through a constellation of shapes reminiscent of the Fantastic Four. It's hard to describe the way this arrangement hovers between abstract and figurative, using basic geometrical shapes that correspond to the way the Fantastic Four have been portrayed in the comics by artist and co-creator Jack Kirby. If you know the comics, though, certain colors and textures form an unequivocal portrayal of these comic characters.

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

No shade but while folks on other platforms might be drawing "comics", us Fedi artists are creating #gravy novels.

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

German comic festivals are exactly how you imagine them to be. #ComicfestivalMuenchen #DaveGibbons #Watchmen #comics #comic #Hurm

A photograph of the Dave Gibbons exhibition at this year's comic festival in Munich.
There's prints and original art by Gibbons on display, overtowered by a giant illustration of the comic character Rorschach from Watchmen, holding a German beer and mumbling "Munich? Hurm."

The same Rorschach illustration printed on a flyer.

Ulli Lust @ullilust.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

Juhuuuuu! 🍀🙃🥳https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/deutscher-sachbuchpreis-ulli-lust-fuer-comic-die-frau-als-mensch-ausgezeichnet-a-17aa11a2-66e8-467d-94e1-03b95264c50d

Deutscher Sachbuchpreis: Ulli Lust für Comic »Die Frau als Mensch« ausgezeichnet

Professorinnen und Wissenschaftler waren nominiert, aber die mit 25.000 Euro dotierte Auszeichnung für das beste deutsche Sachbuch geht an einen Comic über Steinzeit-Frauen. Der Preis für Ulli Lust bestätigt einen Trend.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · last yr.

One of the cartoons from Physics for Cats

Title: Soren Kierkegaard, 1843

Image: A three panel comic strip that shows Mr Kierkegaard saying
"Life can only be understood backwards" as he walks from right to left through the three frames (i.e. against the usual order in which these panels would be read)

A dog walks from left to right, saying: "But it must be lived forward"

Tom Gauld@tomgauld.bsky.social · last yr.

My next book of science cartoons Physics for Cats is available to preorder now! Links here: www.tomgauld.com

An image of the book 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. On the cover is an impossible shape against a starry sky. Gravity-defying cats wander around it.

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

Just stumbled upon this box my daughter glued together for me many years ago, when she was just beginning to write single letters. I love the floating island she has drawn on it, but the secret highlight are all the zigzag lines around it. I remember asking […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

A wooden box with thick walls, crafted together rather roughly. On one side, you can see a children’s drawing with black marker, depicting a floating island with trees on top and a whole swarm of the letter N all around it.
It’s an adorable little nothing box.

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

"Angoulême - Comic-Verbände drohen mit Boykott des größten Festivals der Branche in Europa Rund 400 Comic-Autorinnen und Autoren haben zum Boykott des bedeutendsten Festivals der Branche in Europa aufgerufen. Hintergrund ist die stillschweigende Vertragsverlängerung für den Veranstalter im […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

[USpol / faeries ––– [Just a normal children's book signing in a normal country, nothing to see here]] > “You can’t fire the fucking faeries. You can’t put the muses into gulags.” – Musician-turned-children's book author Tori Amos calling for artistic resistance last month in LA […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

[Cosmic transphobia in the Sandman comic “A Game of You” (adapted in Season 2 of Sandman, coming this July) – CW: Neil Gaiman] Today saw the announcement of the 2nd and final season of the TV series #Sandman There's something that has always irked me about its source material, the story "A […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

I miss Iceland and won't be seeing it for quite some time. Still such a privilege to immerse myself into its breathtaking landscape every day 💚 #comic #comics #graphicNovel #graphicNovels #panelPreview #mastoArt #fediArt #PenAndInk #brushAndInk #lineArt #wip #iceland

A comic panel, landscape format and landscape content: In black and white (with light blue penciling here and there) you can see an Icelandic landscape with hills and a waterfall. A road runs through, with two cars visible, but they are very small compared to the surrounding nature.

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦@osma.fishpool.org · last yr.

Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · last yr.

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

A Caroll diagram consisting of four rectangles arranged in a square.
The Y axis is labelled MOVE and split into FAST and SLOW.
The X axis is labelled THINGS and split into BREAK and FIX

Top left image: (Move Fast and Break Things) Tech Bro
Bottom left image: (Move slow and break things) Runaway Steamroller
Top right image: (Move fast and fix things) Emergency Plumber
Bottom left image: (Move slow and fix things) Grandpa with a toolbox

Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

"When the overall economy gets sick, the #comics business gets pneumonia," Rob Salkowitz wrote last year in an article for ICv2. Now it seems to be starting: From July, the #Spawn titles from Image Comics will see a price hike from $ 2.99 to $ 3.99 USD – that's 33%. This is remarkable for a […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

Spilled my india ink today, damn that stuff is powerful – what a heavily pigmented mess, all over myself, the table, the parquet floor. Not grumbling too loudly, though, ‘cause against all odds, the current page has been spared. Plus it won’t happen again for quite some time now, there’s a […]

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Dirk Schwieger @dirk.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

Drawing more ferries than faeries as of late... :ablobthinkingeyes: #comic #comics #graphicnovel #mastoart #fediart #penandink #comicart

Clean pen and ink drawings of a ferry (a ship, not an elf) in different sizes and from different angles. Drawn in black and white, the ships are predominantly white, with greyish exhaust plumes coming out of black chimneys.