Johannes Borer

Johannes Borer (born September 18, 1949 in Zwingen / BL ) is a Swiss cartoonist , draftsman and illustrator .

Life

Borer grew up in Zwingen near Basel and, after completing a commercial school and training as a company secretary at the post office, retrained to become a graphic designer and later an advertising assistant. After a few years as a graphic designer and advertising consultant in Zurich , he worked as a freelance cartoonist, puzzle maker and illustrator. In 1980 he moved to Allschwil near Basel and has lived in Sion , Valais , since 2010 .

The first drawings appeared in 1973 in the magazines Schweizer Jugend und Team , and since then in over 100 newspapers and magazines worldwide. From 1984 regularly in Nebelspalter , Stern , Punch , Pardon , Lui , Eulenspiegel , Reader's Digest , Schweizer Illustrierte , SonntagsBlick , Die Zeit .

Awards

• 1984: Audience Award, Knokke (Belgium)
• 1985: Special Prize, Skopje (Macedonia)
• 2007: Audience Award, Langnau (Switzerland)

Works (selection)

• Who eats the longest spaghetti. Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk , Zurich 1984, DNB 870113372 .
• Open your eyes - cartoons about daily horror. Fackelträger Verlag , Hannover 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1491-0 .
• Puzzle cartoons from A to Z. Otto Maier Verlag , Ravensburg 1988, ISBN 3-473-51675-9 .
• Totally hidden. Nebelspalter , Rorschach 1992, ISBN 3-85819-167-1 .
• Vortex words. Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk, Zurich 1996, DNB 948514957 .
• Flawless. Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk, Zurich 1997.
• I fell in love with a pulp novel. Letterado Verlag , Quedlinburg 2006, ISBN 3-938579-13-7 .
• Over Bock and Stein to Santiago. Epubli Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-4054-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Borer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Johannes Borer's website at borer-cartoon.ch
• Curriculum vitae in the Jura Lexicon at diju.ch