Eckart Breitschuh
Eckart Breitschuh (born August 16, 1964 in Karlsruhe ) is a German comic artist and author.
Life
Grew up in Darmstadt in the south of Hesse , Eckart Breitschuh read and drew comics with enthusiasm from childhood. He was particularly taken with the French imports of the Kauka Group and Manfred Schmidt's Nick Knatterton , until he discovered some US underground comics, especially by Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson , in his early youth .
After graduating from high school and doing community service, he lived off occasional illustration work for advertising agencies, drew comics for city magazines, took drugs such as speed, coke and hashish but never heroin , and was the lead singer in various local bands (Takka Takka / The Reporters). In 1988 he met the literary scholar Lorraine Flack, and in 1989 they moved to Hamburg together .
From 1990 to 1994 Breitschuh studied visual communication at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . In 1991 his comic The Interesting About Dierckhoffs Death appeared in SZENE Hamburg. Thereupon the Carlsen Verlag became aware of him: From 1992 to 1995 five albums for the television series Lindenstrasse were released by Carlsen. At the same time Eckart Breitschuh worked as a corner phase draftsman in the animation studio, made storyboards for the film and illustrations for advertising.
In 1997 he made his author's debut Irma Corridor - Kannibalen on the Reeperbahn at Zwerchfell Verlag and made his first experiences with digital media. In 1998 the first episodes of Wanda Caramba , a four-volume crime thriller in US booklet format, as well as plot against Berti , the World Cup project by Egmont Ehapa Verlag, appeared . Several comic CD-ROMS by Eckart Breitschuh were also released that year.
In 1999 the first children's book Lotta Schlotter and the last two volumes of the first Wanda Caramba series appeared. In 2000 Eckart worked as a freelance editor at Zwerchfell Verlag ( GRIMM ) and Carlsen Verlag (Mabuse). The second Wanda Caramba series, Bear Cage , was created for which he won the ICOM Independent Prize. In 2002 the Wanda Caramba series was published by Carlsen in paperback format.
In 2003 he developed the concept of an apocalypse comic version with theologian Andreas Köhn . Further GRIMM issues as well as various horror stories for Levin Kurios Weissblech Comics were published . In 2004 his one-page series Patty Partygirl ran nationwide in 36 city magazines. In 2005, Heavy Metal published Breitschuh's US debut, the short story A Mother's Love (with author Josef Rother ), which was also published in German in the tinplate booklet Horrorschocker # 6 under the title Mutterliebe in the same year .
Also for heavy metal, the first Argstein album The Law Of The Forest (with author Josef Rother) was created in 2006 , in spring 2007 also in German with Ehapa. Further Argstein stories have followed since October 2009 in the anthology series Welten des Schreckens by Weissblech Comics. Important influences for Eckart Breitschuh are André Franquin , Will Eisner , Mike Mignola and Régis Loisel . Eckart Breitschuh now lives in Hamburg- St. Pauli with Lorraine Flack and their three children.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eckart Breitschuh in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Eckart Breitschuh
- "There's a man" at Spiegel-Online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breitschuh, Eckart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comic artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |