Frank Plein

Frank Plein (also known under his pseudonym Spong , * 1968 ) is a German comic artist , publisher , editor and translator .

Career

Plein first became active as a comic artist in 2001. From then on he published his first comic contributions in the Cologne fanzine Cosmix . Later he worked on the renowned anthology series Panik Elektro by the Hamburg comic artist Thomas Wittke until 2006 , in which he also published his own comic strips . It followed the comic post icons of masculinity for the anthology Rodeo the comic group Pony X Press , which also includes the comic artist Andreas Eikenroth , Ans de Bruin and Sarah Burrini belong.

In 2007 Plein's first comic book, Das Kurz Hallo und das Lange Machsgut , was published by the Katzenjammer publishing house, which he founded . Halbstark followed in the same year , a collection of various short comic stories. In 2008 he finally published the comic album Tara or the stake that is called life . The following year, the volume was awarded the ICOM Independent Comic Prize in the Outstanding Scenario category.

In 2012, Plein published the book Der Comic im Kopf together with the illustrator Markus Hockenbrink . Creative storytelling in the Ninth Art , in which he briefly introduces the most important aspects of comic writing. Plein documented the creation of the volume in a blog specially set up for this purpose . 2015 followed with The Own Line. Style formation and drawing technique for comics and illustration is another guide for comic makers.

After several stays in Russia and Belgium , Frank Plein, who grew up in Siegerland , has lived in Cologne since the late 1990s , where he has been working full-time as an editor and translator after graduating .

Publications (selection)

• The short hello and the long Machsgut , Katzenjammer, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-940362-00-1 .
• Halbstark , Katzenjammer, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-940362-01-8 .
• Tara or the stake of life is called , Katzenjammer, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-940362-02-5 .
• The comic in your head. Creative storytelling in the Ninth Art , with Markus Hockenbrink, Icom, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-88834-923-2 .
• Your own line. Style formation and drawing technique for comics and illustration , Stiebner, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8307-1696-9 .
• Comic language course for beginners. German as a Foreign Language , with Christine Breslauer, Pons, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-12-562875-5 .

Web links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Frank Plein in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Outstanding scenario: "Tara or the torture stake that life is called" by Frank Plein in COMIC! -Yearbook 2010 , Icom, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-88834-940-9 .