May 2013
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April 2013
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Leipzig Bookfair 2013 (GERMAN) →
As I’m writing for the AnimaniA magazine, you can find my German article on the fair on their website, just follow the link.
To sum it up in English: I enjoyed this year’s Leipzig Bookfair. It wasn’t my all-time-favourite, but had some impressive events. For Cosplayers, I think Leipzig is still one of the most important conventions of the year.
Pros:
the mayor German Manga...
Sorry, I'm terribly slow right now!
Dear followers,
I’m currently (happily) drowning in several projects. I try to keep up with the German language manga scene for you, and I’ll sum up some things that happened in the past few months soon. Please bear with me. :)
December 2012
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Watch“Doujinshi in Deutschland” - a (German) video of a panel discussion about the German Dojinshi scene (featuring Animexx, the biggest German registered society when it comes to the Anime&Manga fandom) by Splashcomics. I hosted the panel during this year’s 15th International Comic-Salon in Erlangen.
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Watch“Germanga - Zwischen Pioniergeist und gespaltener Fangemeinde” a video of a panel discussion about the current state of original German language Manga (German) by Splashcomics. I hosted the panel during this year’s 15th International Comic-Salon in Erlangen.
October 2012
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Back! :)
Sorry for being on hiatus for so long, a lot of things have been keeping me busy, but I intend to use the convention winter break to write about the original German language Manga scene on a more regular basis again.
This year, I’ve written some stuff on the German pro and indie Manga scene for magazines, so if you can read German, check out COMIXENE 114 and the ICOM’s COMIC!-Jahrbuch...
September 2012
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June 2012
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COMIX 6
The June issue of the COMIX magazine will feature a second chapter of Olivia Viewegs “Endzeit” and the first chapter of “Streets of Europe”, drawn by Dutch artist Marissa Delbressine (“Coined!” licensed by Fireangels) and written by Anne Delseit (“Lilientod”).
The COMIX magazine has established a manga section in Japanese reading direction...
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Comic-Salon Erlangen
Get ready for the 15th International Comic-Salon Erlangen. More than 400 comic artists and writers will attend the festival, signing, discussing, celebrating the medium.
There’ll be a manga market on Saturday and several German manga artists will be there with their publishers. Say hello to e.g. David Füleki (Entoman), Alexandra Völker (Dark Magic) and Melanie Schober (Personal Paradise) -...
May 2012
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Goodbye Daisuki →
As announced today, Carlsen has to drop its Shoujo-Magazin Daisuki due to falling sales. The running series like e.g. Vampire Knight will be continued as paperbacks. More important for this blog: Carlsen also states that they will continue to work with German artists and authors. The Daisuki has been a famous and highly coveted platform for German artist as it assured to be introduced to a certain...
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April 2012
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Grablicht nominated for Max und Moritz-award 2012 →
Daniela Winkler’s Grablicht has been chosen by the audience to be nominated for the 2012’s Max und Moritz-awards. Congratulations to Daniela!
The other two titles nominated for the Manga category are Summer Wars by Mamoru Hosoda, Iqura Sugimoto and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (German translation: Nadine Stutterheim, Carlsen Verlag) and Pluto by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki / Osamu Tezuka...
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Germanga 2013
The release of the following titles has been announced (titles first published in Germany but not produced by authors from a German speaking country are asterisked)… Note: Some titles may be released a few weeks earlier, so a February title may already be in stores by the end of January…
(a) = artist, (s) = scenario/writer
January
Grimms Manga Sonderband Perfect Edition (hardcover), Anike...
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Manga @ 15th International Comic-Salon Erlangen →
To increase the presence of Manga at the 15th International Comic-Salon Erlangen, there will be an artist alley / “Manga Market” for independent Manga or Manga-related artists and authors. Follow the link for more information and the application form (time for applications end on April 30th).
The attending publishers have announced several international guests already, e.g. Guillem...
March 2012
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Present and sell your Manga work at International... →
For the first time, the International Comic Salon Erlangen is also hosting a market for self-published Manga and products related to the fandom (jewelry, buttons and other merchandise) in 2012.
The market will be on Saturday, June 9th only (festival is form June 7th to 10th). You won’t need a ticket to visit the market.
Follow the link to the official news and the booking form (German).
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Max und Moritz-Preis 2012 - Round 2
With the voting for the audience’s nominee at this year’s “Max und Moritz” audience award concluded on March 15th, the Comic Salon organisation staff has released the following announcement:
Am 15. März 2012 um 23:59 Uhr endete die zweite Abstimmungsrunde des Max und Moritz-Publikumspreises. Insgesamt haben sich in den drei beteiligten Diskussionforen – Comicforum,...
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Webcomics and apps →
Something that might be interesting for the Germanga-web as well:
chrishanel:
Do you support webcomics? Take this one question survey:
1. Do you take the RSS feed of over 90 webcomics, rip the images, put them in your Android app, and then put your own advertisements next to them in order to make money?
Congratulations: If you said “Yes”, then NO, YOU DO NOT SUPPORT WEBCOMICS.
There’s a...
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"Max und Moritz" Audience Award 2012 (English) →
Information on this year’s “Max und Moritz” Audience Award is available in English on the festival’s website. Follow the link above. :)
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Germanga discussions
It’s March! I’ve updated the 2012 release list.
Currently, there are some (ugly) discussions going on about original German language Manga again. They are about Germanga’s quality (considering styles, stories, storytelling, art and more) and if or how it can or cannot be compared to Japanese Manga. An old topic which contains some explosive material - with emotion and passion...
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Max und Moritz-Preis 2012 - Runde 2 (MANGA) →
Ab heute kann unter den besten vorgeschlagenen Titeln (im Manga-Bereich all jene mit mindestens 2 Stimmen) per Formular auf Animexx abgestimmt werden. Der Link führt zur Newsmeldung, in der zum Formular verlinkt wird. Unter der Newsmeldung ist auch der zugehörige Diskussionsthread.
February 2012
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Max und Moritz-Preis 2012
Quote from http://comic-salon.de:
15. Internationaler Comic-Salon Erlangen 2012
Der Max und Moritz-Publikumspreis
Zum zweiten Mal nach 2010 wird in diesem Jahr ein Max und Moritz-Publikumspreis vergeben. Die Abstimmung, die in drei Phasen erfolgt und am Abend des 7. Juni 2012 um 19:00 Uhr endet, wird in Zusammenarbeit mit Tageszeitungen und Comic-Magazinen, sowie im Internet mit den...
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Carolin Walch: Roxanne & George →
Carolin Walch, known e.g. for her Manga-piece “Magic Mütze” (as part of “the royal Walchs”, printed in the Paper Theater anthology by Schwarzer Turm), will release her new graphic novel “Roxanne & George” at Reprodukt in March. Follow the link to the book for more information.
Isn’t it interesting and fascinating to see how German artist develop?!...
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delayed & cancelled 2012 episode 1
Catching up with the recent news on German Manga, the following titles have been delayed:
According the Tokyopop board, the 3rd volume of Anna Hollmann’s Stupid Story is not done yet. A new release date will be announced.
As announced by Cursed Side, the Manga Be mine has been cancelled.
The 2012 release list has been updated accordingly.
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"Subway to Sally - Storybook 2"-Preview in COMIX... →
The February issue of the Comix magazine will feature a preview of the upcoming 2nd volume of the Subway to Sally - Storybook (which will be released by Schwarzer Turm in March).
If you want to order a copy of the issue, ask your German, Austrian or Swiss comic book dealer or order it online e.g. at the freibeutershop (you can buy back runs there, too).
January 2012
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Schwarzer Turm sets release date for Subway to...
The 2nd Subway to Sally Storybook will be released at this year’s Leipzig Bookfair in March. The book contains short comics based on the band’s lyrics, interpreted and drawn by several German speaking artists who will be revealed here ( http://www.schwarzerturm.de/subway.html) as the release draws nearer.
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Germanga in progress: Crash'n'Burn →
Mikiko Ponczeck is currently working on a new project, “Crash’n’Burn”, that is to be published by Tokyopop in late 2012. Check out Mikiko’s progress on the English Crash’n’Burn-blog.
Crash’n’Burn-synopsis - quoted from the blog:
Kyle and Tyler are two very different men that hate each other, but by chance end up playing in the same band. ...
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New Daisuki Short Manga
Carlsen has announced that the February issue of the Daisuki magazine (released on January 27th) features the short manga “Turn around” written by André Linke and illustrated by Simone Xie.
Go catch it! :)
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Germangaka signing
Happy New Year!
Tokyopop’s just announced some signing events of its artists Natalie Wormsbecher and David Füleki. Go meet your favourite German Mangaka!
Natalie Wormsbecher (Life Tree’s Guardian) will be signing in Hamburg on February 2nd at 4 pm: Thalia Buchhandlung Shopping-Center Hamburger Meile Hamburger Straße 25 22083 Hamburg
David Füleki (Entoman,...
December 2011
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Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year!
Go tell your loved ones how much you love them, will you?! :) And get to 2012 savely and healthy!
Best wishes,
Anne
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Yonen Buzz in COMIX
The upcoming 12/2011-issue of the COMIX-Magazine will contain the first 17 pages of the 5th volume of Christina Plaka’s “Yonen Buzz”. Further pages will pe pre-published in the following issues 1-2/2012. The complete volume will be released by Tokyopop in February 2012.
Click here for the COMIX-cover featureing “Yonen Buzz”.
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Germangaka's Webcomics
An unfinished list of webcomics by German speaking Mangaka. Feel free to submit new links here, sumission guidelines are there, too. Sorted by Mangaka’s name. Webcomics are usually in German, I will add English versions if available.
Aerni, Helen (Großstadtaugen, Knaur) Fragmente, Animexx.de
Bösch, Evelyne (Feed me poison, Carlsen) Panorama - Exodus,Animexx.de
Brandner, Stella (Idol,...
Donations
Okay, so I added a donation-button to the side. Feel free to donate if you like to support this blog. Let me know if I should also add flattr…? :)
Best wishes,
Anne
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Tokyopop: Germanga 2012
The Newsletter was just released and - wow! - Tokyopop has some aces up it’s sleeves when it comes to new Germanga titles:
2012 will clearly be a good year for David Füleki. After Blutrotkäppchen (coming up March 2012), Tokyopop is also going to publish the Sondermann 2011(best webcomic)-award winning Serial Sausage Slaughter (May 2012) and 78 Tage auf der Straße des Hasses (starting July...
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kokoroto - new web-tv-magazine →
There’s another youtube-channel dealing with Anime, Manga (& western comic cultures) and Japanese Lifestyle: kokoroto, produced by Gesamtkunstwerk.
In distinction from aufgezeichnet.tv, Kokoroto publishes single videos or series of videos that stand alone. The magazine is hosted by Anne Delseit and reporters Jojo and Sarah. The videos contain interviews, coverages, features et cetera.
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Update Germanga 2012 →
I started updating the list of original German language publications announced to be released in 2012. I also updated 2011’s list.
Habe die 2012-Liste und die 2011-Liste aktualisiert. Mehr, wenn ich die Kataloge vorliegen hab oder die Independent-Verlage mir weitere Veröffentlichungsdaten zuspielen … :)
November 2011
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Original German language Web-Manga - The...
Okay, so here’s tonight’s challenge:
I would like to add a list of current (!), at least semi-professional original German language web-Manga to the blog. I know, there’s animexx.de and you can really find a lot of web-Manga there, but you will have to dig through tons of half-baked doujinshi to find a certain quality. I’m looking for webcomics by German-speaking artists...
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YaYuCo livestream →
Can’t attend this year’s YaYuCo? Check out the convention’s livestream!
