Carsten Mell

Carsten Mell (2010)

Carsten Mell (born May 24, 1974 in Cologne ) is a German illustrator and comic artist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1994 at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule Gymnasium Rösrath and subsequent military service, he began his freelance work as an illustrator in 1995 with numerous publications, such as designs for the title motif of "Der Spiegel" (2001) or "Welt am Sonntag" (2004 ). Mell completed his design studies at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in 2005 as a qualified designer. His diploma thesis was on the topic: "Teachers as comics". Mell lives in Rösrath near Cologne.

From 2004 to 2007 he worked as a draftsman on the international comic series “Red Ears”, which was translated into ten languages ​​and appears in 15 countries. As a freelance lecturer at the "Comicademy", an academy for budding comic artists, he taught from 2004 to 2006.

The works are created digitally on the computer. They are drawn and composed using a graphics tablet .

Works (selection)

• "The Billion Trap" (subject: rip-off of banks, presented by the Frankfurt headquarters), title motif "Der Spiegel", 8/2001
• Gerhard Schröder, Joschka Fischer, Oskar Lafontaine and Gregor Gysi in the style of old communist posters (official election campaign poster of the CSU in the 2005 federal election campaign)
• "The new People's Republic vehicle" (China's car companies storm the last bastion of the Germans), cover image of the magazine "Capital", 05/2010

Exhibitions

• Illustration made in Rösrath - Exhibition in the Citizens' Forum Rösrath-Hoffnungsthal from May 16 to June 25, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Title motifs "Der Spiegel" 2001 (see motif 08/2001)
2. ↑ Title motif “Capital” 05/2010 ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Homepage of Carsten Mell