Inga Steinmetz

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Inga Steinmetz (2006)

Inga Steinmetz (born January 4, 1983 in Berlin ) is a German comic artist .

Career

Inga Steinmetz was born in Berlin and grew up there. Inga Steinmetz was already drawing comics in her childhood. After graduating from high school in 2002, she studied at the BTK for three years and attended a private school for design in Cape Town for several weeks as part of her studies . She later published her first amateur comics and smaller cartoons in the Berlin city magazine Tip . She took part in several competitions, at the Connichi Dōjinshi competition in 2004 she came with the story blue in the top six, the comic was then published in the Shinkan Special .

After contributing to the anthology Manga Fieber, the Tokyopop publishing house engaged her to implement the novel series Freche Mädchen by the author Bianka Minte-König . The first volume was published in April 2008, the second in January 2009, the third and last in February 2010. She also makes illustrations for children's books.

Since 2012 she has been traveling to countries such as Sweden , Indonesia and Malaysia for the Goethe-Institut to hold workshops and lectures on manga.

In 2013 Inga Steinmetz received a scholarship from the South Korean comic institute Komakon for a 2-month stay in South Korea . She processed the experiences there in her autobiographical comic Schneeballens Fall , which appeared in 2015.

Working method

Inga Steinmetz creates the drawings by hand with pen and ink, the grids are inserted on the computer after scanning. For color illustrations she mainly uses watercolors and alcohol-based markers.

Works

  • Blue (2004 in Shinkan Special )
  • Stone, Scissors, Paper (2006 in Manga Fever )
  • First love - safety first! (2006)
  • An Angel's Late (2007 at the Paper Theater )
  • Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Manga (since 2008, 3 volumes)
  • Promise (2010 in the Daisuki )
  • Little Brother and Little Sister (2011 in Grimms Manga - special issue )
  • Alpha Girl (since 2012, 2 volumes)
  • Snowball's Fall (2015)
  • Snowball - In Love with Japan (2017)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mangaka Inga Steinmetz. Comic Radio Show, May 28, 2008, accessed March 18, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Shinkan Special. Shinkan Special 2004. Animexx , accessed December 29, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Expressive - the manga artist Inga Steinmetz. Goethe-Institut, April 2014, accessed on March 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Interview with Mangaka Inga Steinmetz. Carlsen, July 30, 2015, accessed March 15, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Steinmetz, Inga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin