Alexandra Völker
Alexandra Völker (born July 12, 1986 ) is a German comic artist who draws in the Manga style .
Career
Völker has been drawing caricatures for the daily newspaper Westfalenpost since she was 14 . In 2004 she took part in the Connichi Doujinshi drawing competition in Cologne and won second place. Then she took the publisher Egmont Manga and Anime under contract. In 2005 she published her first work, Catwalk , which she drew while she was still at school. The second volume appeared a year later.
Soon after, she was poached by Carlsen Verlag and published the short story Make a Date in 2007 in the Carlsen chibi manga series.
In July 2008 Egmont Manga and Anime published her latest work Paris in one volume. This continues the storyline of Catwalk . Her latest Oneshot Dark Magic was released in March 2010.
style
The drawing style of peoples is strongly influenced by manga, but also by caricatures. So she uses strong contours and completely shaded with Indian ink. She tries to draw hair as humanly as possible and attaches great importance to unusual clothing.
catwalk
Catwalk is about an albino girl who by chance begins a career as a model. It is primarily about the downsides of the modeling profession and how to deal with one's own appearance. Völker hired the budding fashion designer Sabrina Doemlang to design the clothes for the main characters. The manga is completed with two volumes. The work was also implemented as a radio play.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Interview with Alexandra Völker at arte.tv ( memento from October 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), from December 2006
- ^ Article of the WELT about Alexandra Völker, from November 27, 2005
- ^ Announcement by EMA about Dark Magic ( Memento from February 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Die Zeit about Alexandra Völker, July 5, 2007
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexandra Völker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Xela-City , Homepage of Alexandra Völker
- Portrait at zeit.de
- Interview at japanlink.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peoples, Alexandra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1986 |