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Anna Summer (2018)

Anna Sommer (born May 13, 1968 in Aarau ) is a Swiss comic artist and illustrator . She lives and works in Zurich .

biography

Sommer completed the basic course at the Zurich University of the Arts and an apprenticeship as a graphic designer. At the same time, she always enjoyed drawing and a lot; As a child, it was “women who preferred to wear high heels”, but Sommer came to drawing comics almost by chance: “As a child, of course, I read Tintin and Wilhelm Busch, who were obviously important for my comic education. But then I didn't read any comics for years ” .

In 1996, Sommer's first comic book, Damen Dramen, appeared . The volume in A5 format tells without words of different women, "playful and at the same time full of seriousness, innocent, but absolutely free of scruples," writes Milena Moser in the blurb. The success of her wildly weird, sometimes frivolous stories with and about women made it possible for Sommer to move from a permanent graphic designer to a freelance comic artist and illustrator.

The second book, Honigmond (1998), “a bitterly angry story in collage technique about the excesses on a wedding night” , is also quickly sold out.

As a result, Sommer established herself both as an illustrator and as a comic artist, and in 2007 the Fumetto comic festival devoted a solo show to her, because “she is one of the cleverest storytellers on the progressive comic scene” .

In 2007 the autobiographical book The Truth and Other Inventions was published . In this summer no name changed, all characters appearing are called as in reality. “Anna Sommer talks freely and openly about the liberal experiences and discoveries of her childhood and puberty, about first boyfriends, kisses, gentle flirting with homoeroticism and childlike trying out co-sleeping.” She says herself “Poking around in the past shows me how vague ours are Memories are. " The book is " extremely amusing " , judge some media professionals, others praise " The ease with which the drawings are made is what makes the book a great pleasure to look at " and note " the high quality of their stories is not the last thing that touches from the subtle breaks that run through everything. ” With her black and white drawings , she drew “ a little comic pearl ” .

In 2010 the commissioned work Julie is back! released. The story of a girl suffering from leukemia is intended to help parents and siblings to make the stress of this disease more bearable. In 2003 she had already published a children's book on brain cancer with Eugen und der Nache Wicht , which is aimed at affected children and their families as well as teachers, friends, carers and doctors. Then she worked on a picture book for the blind.

Since the 1990s, Sommer has also been working regularly as an illustrator for NZZ Folio , Die Zeit , Liberation , WoZ and Strapazin, among others .

Her life partner is the comic artist Noyau.

She is the guest of honor at the comic festival BD-FIL 2017 in Lausanne , Festival international de bande dessinée de Lausanne and created the festival poster.

style

“The motivation for drawing was always storytelling. I also always told stories in individual pictures, ” said Sommer about her work. To do this, she uses different techniques: At first she mainly drew black-and-white drawings in ink, which "are better suited for quick narration" ; Today she designs paper cuts with a Japanese knife and spray glue as “trendy, striking collages” without speech bubbles, and she also creates drypoint etchings. "The atypical visual language far from comic templates is one of the reasons why Anna Sommer also appeals to readers who are usually not interested in comics" .

Sommer himself particularly appreciates "the intimate comics by Julie Doucet, Chester Brown or David B" as well as among the writing authors Agota Kristof , Emmanuel Bove and works like Effi Briest or Madame Bovary .

Works

  • Ladies' dramas, Arrache Cœur, Zurich 1996/2004, ISBN 978-3-907010-91-4 . French: Remue Ménage, L'Association, Paris 1996
  • Honigmond, Arrache Cœur, Zurich 1998
  • Rêves de Bunker Hill (based on a novella by John Fante ), Editions Demoures, Geneva 1999
  • Amourettes, Buchet-Chastel, Paris 2002
  • Baies des Bois, United Dead Artists, Paris 2002
  • In the Land of Love (based on a story by Gilbert Sorrentino ), Maro Verlag, Augsburg 2002
  • Eugen and the cheeky Wicht (with Michael Grotzer), Edition Moderne , Zurich 2003, ISBN 978-3-907055-70-0
  • Portrait d'Ari la nuit (based on the story by Juan d'Oultremont ), Estuaire, Belgium 2006
  • Truth and Other Inventions, Modern Edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-03731-017-5 . French: Tout peut arriver, Buchet-Chastel, Paris 2009
  • Julie is back !, Edition Moderne, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03731-053-3
  • What tickles in my hand?, Edition Moderne, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03731-087-8 (with Dr. med. Michael Grotzer, screen print, relief only 200 copies on sale)
  • L'inconnu, Buchet-Chastel, Paris 2017, ISBN 979-10-90875-58-6
  • The unknown, Edition Moderne, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-03731-173-8

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Golden Calf, Aarau, 1993
  • Galerie XS, Basel, 1995
  • Papiers Gras, Geneva, 1998 (with Martin tom Dieck )
  • Fumetto , Lucerne, 1999
  • Comixshop, Basel, 1999
  • Martine Gossieaux Gallery, Paris, 2003
  • Galerie Espace Saint-Francois, Lausanne, 2002 (with Yves Nussbaum )
  • Galerie Hauptmann & Kampa, Zurich, 2005 (with Noyau)
  • Fumetto, Lucerne, 2007
  • Cartoonmuseum, Basel, 2009 (with Noyau)
  • BD-Fil, Lausanne, 2017
  • Galerie Papiers Gras, Geneva, 2017
  • Never Stop Reading, Zurich, 2018
  • Comic Festival Fumetto , Lucerne, 2018 (artist in residence at Hotel Schweizerhof)

Group exhibitions

  • Little sexual things, Bommer Gallery, Zurich, 1994
  • Festival de la bande dessinée, Sierre, 1994
  • Art Magazin, Zurich, 1995
  • Comixx, Geneva, Paris, Vallunga, BAK, 1996
  • Marie-Louise Wirth Gallery, Zurich, 1997
  • Helsinki Comic Festival, 1997
  • Women's Art Forum, Bern, 1997
  • Mutanten, Düsseldorf, 1999
  • Athens Comic Festival, 2001
  • Fumetto , Lucerne, 2001
  • Papiers Gras, Geneva, 2002
  • Room 62, Rapperswil, 2002
  • Arts Factory, Paris, 2002
  • Comic Brew, Johannesburg and Cape Town, 2004
  • IG Halle, Rapperswil, 2004
  • 20 years of STRAPAZIN , Walcheturm, Zurich, 2004
  • Comic-Land Switzerland, Pro Helvetia, 2005
  • Les 7 péchés capitaux, BD-Fil , 2011

Awards

  • 1997 "Prix d'humour" at the Festival de la bande dessinée Sierre for women's dramas
  • 2006 working year comics for the city of Zurich
  • 2018 «Comic grant of the German-speaking cities» on the occasion of the Fumetto comic festival

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fine lines, strong stories. Brigitte, June 20, 2007
  2. ↑ "Drawn from everyday life". The Federal Government, April 18, 2007
  3. ↑ Edition Moderne 2007
  4. ↑ From growing up. Schweizer Illustrierte, March 5, 2007
  5. ↑ In the sign of navel gazing. St. Galler Tagblatt, March 27, 2007
  6. ^ Portrait of Anna Sommer. The-Title, 3/2007
  7. ↑ Edition Moderne 2007
  8. ↑ The best. Schweizer Illustrierte, March 24, 2007
  9. ↑ The work of remembering. NZZ, April 19, 2007
  10. ↑ Drawn from everyday life ”. The Federal Government, April 18, 2007
  11. ↑ About the tampon and the boys' kisses. Mittellandzeitung, April 12, 2007
  12. ↑ About the tampon and the boys' kisses. Mittelland-Zeitung, April 12, 2007
  13. ↑ Final poster 2017 . Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  14. ↑ Kesse Comics. Women's newspaper FRAZ, June 2, 2007
  15. ↑ Kesse Comics. Women's newspaper FRAZ, June 2, 2007
  16. ↑ From growing up. Schweizer Illustrierte, March 5, 2007
  17. ↑ Drawn from everyday life ”. The Federal Government, April 18, 2007
  18. ↑ Sans paroles, ils vont plus vite au lit. La Liberation, June 25, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss comic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau