Jamiri

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Jan-Michael Richter (Jamiri), 2004

Jamiri (actually Jan-Michael Richter , born May 3, 1966 in Blankenstein ) is a German comic artist . The stage name is an acronym of his real name.

Biography and personal information

Jan-Michael Richter attended a Waldorf school in Bochum from 1972 to 1985 . In 1985 he began to study German , comparative literature and philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum , but in 1986 he switched to communication design at what was then the University of Essen . During his studies, he worked for several years as a draftsman for advertising agencies until, from 1990, he was able to earn his living mainly as a cartoonist.

Richter worked as a bartender from his studies until he gave up his own restaurant, Haferkamp, in 2003.

Richter has lived in Essen since 1986 . In 2000 he married his partner, with whom he had lived since 1990. Richter is a cousin of the former soccer player Mehmet Scholl .

Publicity and dissemination

Richter has been drawing comics since he was a child. In 1990 he started making money with it. In 1992 he became the "house draftsman" for the Ruhr area city magazine Marabo for the first time .

Since then, he has published comics every month in current magazines, such as the German student magazine Unicum , with the highest circulation . From 2003 to 2012 Jamiri was Spiegel Online's in- house draftsman .

In addition, Jamiri publishes comic albums in the classic format (DIN A4 with 48 pages), which are currently being published by Edition 52 in Wuppertal . Ten of these albums have been released since 1994, plus a best of in a smaller format.

subjects

According to the definition of comics (several consecutive images), Jamiri is both a comic artist and cartoonist , since part of his drawings consists of just one image. He describes himself as a "comic artist".

Jamiri's comics are mostly about his alter ego . Many events are borrowed from actual events. The comics printed in the Unicum university magazine dealt with the struggle with the dominant girlfriend, with unruly computers, broken cars and increasing age.

Jamiri moves with his comics largely on private topics. Occasional statements on social issues are usually packaged in everyday scenes. He reveals contradictions by regularly combining intellectual highs and banal everyday activities and contrasting them with one another.

Works

Comic albums

  1. Carpe Noctem (1994, Unicum Edition, Bochum; re-edition 2002, Carlsen-Verlag, Hamburg)
  2. Bohème 29 (1995, Unicum Edition, Bochum; re-edition 2002, Carlsen-Verlag, Hamburg)
  3. Homepages (1997, Unicum Edition, Bochum; re-edition 2002, Carlsen-Verlag, Hamburg)
  4. Kamikaze d'amour (1999, Eichborn-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main)
    Special volume with a focus on "Beate & Relationships", intended as a prelude to a series of themed albums, including a. to “Spacejamiri” and “Jamiri & God”. The repetition of some Beate comics already printed in previous albums with the aim of completeness took some fans as an occasion for protests. The concept of the theme albums was then no longer pursued.
  5. Dotcom Dummy (2000, Unicum Edition, Bochum; re-edition 2002, Carlsen-Verlag, Hamburg)
  6. Hypercyber (2002, Carlsen-Verlag, Hamburg)
  7. Richter scale (2004, Carlsen-Verlag, Hamburg)
  8. Pornorama (2005, Uni-Edition, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-937151-39-7 )
  9. Autodox (2007, Uni-Edition, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-937151-55-7 )
  10. Best Of 1993-2008 (2008, Uni-Edition, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-937151-80-9 )
  11. Arsenicum Album (2009, Edition 52, Wuppertal, ISBN 978-3-935229-72-2 )
  12. Memme Fatale (2011, Edition 52, Wuppertal, ISBN 978-3-935229-87-6 )
  13. L 'Argh pour l' Art , Artbook (2013, Edition 52, Wuppertal, ISBN 978-3935229760 )
  14. Borderlein (2014, Edition 52, Wuppertal, ISBN 978-3935229654 )
  15. Equilirium (2018, Edition 52, Wuppertal, ISBN 978-3935229968 )

Other monographs

  • Bochum local (1990, Bospekt-Verlag, Bochum)
    cartoons about the Bochum pub landscape in booklet form
  • WP Fahrenberg (Hrsg.): Master of the comic art - Jamiri . Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-88897-826-5

Articles in collective works

  • Community of authors: Cartoon 2000 (1999, Achterbahn-Verlag, Kiel)
  • Marcel Feige: The Great Comic Lexicon (2001, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin)
  • Winfried Ulrich: Didactics of the German Language (2001, Klett-Verlag, Stuttgart)
  • Jamiri (Ed.): AufRuhr - Comics from the Ruhr Area (2006, Verlag Konturblau, Dorsten)

House draftsman of periodicals

Individual articles in periodicals

030 Magazin Berlin , Airbrush Art + Action , Berliner Zeitung , Coolibri , Designers Digest , Digital Arts , Hamburger Morgenpost , Chief Own Hearth , Info 3 , Magic Attack , Neue Ruhr Zeitung , Petra , Prinz , Ran , taz , WDR online , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Newspaper , quick-witted

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV ( Memento from May 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Jamiri Dotcom , April 3, 2000
  2. ^ Goodbye Haferkamp! ( Memento of July 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Jamiri Dotcom , December 2003
  3. ↑ a b https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWXB4zpAXzM
  4. ↑ Jamiri: "Mehmet", Unicum , June 2006
  5. ↑ Die Detail-Neurose, Interview with Jamiri ( Memento from July 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Subway City Magazine , August 2002

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Jamiri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Jan-Michael (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenstein