Kim Schmidt

Kim Schmidt (2010)

Kim Schmidt (born May 16, 1965 in Flensburg ) is a German comic artist and cartoonist .

Works

In 1983 the weekly Flensburg advertising paper Moin Moin began publishing Schmidt's comic strip Öde . From this series about a lazy man and later his bizarre grandma, around 1,400 episodes and five anthologies were published by December 2015. 2017 appeared with Das Was Öde. Comics from 1983-2015 a complete volume of the series. Schmidt is also featured in the Flensburger Tageblatt weekly with cartoons on local politics in Flensburg. The animal cartoon series Local Heroes has been published weekly in all 18 regional editions of sh: z since 1996, and has also been published in 16 edited volumes by Flying Kiwi Verlag , which Schmidt founded in 1988 with Jens Junge . Schmidt also published at Carlsen , Tokyopop and Achterbahn . His first publication by Carlsen was Unser Schumi , a satire on the hype about Michael Schumacher , with Lutz Mathesdorf as the author. This was followed by an adventure comic about the youth by Klaus Störtebeker , written by Patrick Wirbeleit , and the cartoon series Prince Charming about frogs and princesses. For Tokyopop he drew the two-volume comic Little Thor in manga format , also based on texts by Wirbeleit. Cartoon maps by Schmidt are already available for all German federal states, maps with local features and corrupt city ​​names (e.g. "Kokshaufen" for Cuxhaven or "Humbug" for Hamburg) were drawn. In addition, he also created book illustrations, including for Die drei ??? Kids or for Rüdiger Nehberg , e.g. B. in Experienced stories .

Kim Schmidt lives in Dollerup , a community in the Schleswig-Holstein region of fishing .

Comic drawing course

Another work by Schmidt is the comic drawing course in three volumes, in the course of which two books have already been published ( Great Cinema and Das Liebe Buch ). In 2006, the associated forum won the ICOM Independent Comic Prize in the Special Jury Prize category for a special achievement or publication .

Publications (selection)

Desolation

• That was boring. Comics from 1983-2015 . Flying Kiwi Verlag, Flensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-940989-33-8 .
  • Bad times . Flying Kiwi Verlag, Harrislee / Bonn / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-926055-01-4 .
  • Desert on the road . 1st edition. Flying-Kiwi-Verlag, Glücksburg 1997, ISBN 3-926055-09-X .
  • The new big wasteland anthology . 2nd Edition. Flying Kiwi Verlag, Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-926055-08-1 .
  • Barren - hard on the border . 1st edition. Flying Kiwi Verlag, Flensburg 1999, ISBN 3-926055-19-7 .
  • Happy Birthday, dreary! 1st edition. Barren band 5 . Flying Kiwi Verlag, Flensburg 2002, ISBN 3-926055-60-X .

Local Heroes

• Local Heroes. Volume 8 - Land Under. Flying Kiwi, 2006, ISBN 3-926055-87-1 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 9 - chicken stuff. Flying Kiwi, 2007, ISBN 978-3-926055-90-3 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 10 - Holstein. Flying Kiwi, 2008, ISBN 978-3-926055-98-9 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 11 - Regional League. Flying Kiwi, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940989-00-0 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 12 - Everything organic. Flying Kiwi, 2010, ISBN 978-3-940989-02-4 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 13 - www.landleben.sh. Flying Kiwi, 2011, ISBN 978-3-940989-04-8 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 14 - Crosswind. Flying Kiwi, 2012, ISBN 978-3-940989-11-6 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 15 - Land of Horizons. Flying Kiwi, 2013, ISBN 978-3-940989-13-0 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 16 - Selvieh. Flying Kiwi, 2014, ISBN 978-3-940989-21-5 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 17 - Garden Friends. Flying Kiwi, 2016, ISBN 978-3-940989-31-4 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 18 - Coastlines. Flying Kiwi, 2017, ISBN 978-3-940989-34-5 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 19 - Country Eggs. Flying Kiwi, 2018, ISBN 978-3-940989-35-2 .
• Local Heroes. Volume 20 - Wat moo, dat muht. Flying Kiwi, 2019, ISBN 978-3-940989-38-3 .

more publishments

• Schronz. Comics like you & me . Flying Kiwi Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-926055-06-5 .
• The flying lighthouse. Flying Kiwi Media, 2001, ISBN 3-926055-44-8 .
  • De fleegende Lüchttorn. (Translation into Low German by Renate Delfs ) Flying Kiwi Media, 2001, ISBN 3-926055-45-6 .
• Comic drawing course. Carlsen Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-551-76825-0 .
• Cartoon characters - step by step. Carlsen Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-551-76834-X .
• Kim's cartoon drawing class workbook. Carlsen Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-551-76866-7 .
• Prince Charming. Carlsen Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-551-68005-1 .
• Kiss me, you prince charming. Carlsen Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-551-68006-8 .
• Little Thor. Volume 1 (Text: Patrick Wirbeleit ) Tokyopop, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86719-029-9 .
• Little Thor. Volume 2 (Text: Patrick Wirbeleit) Tokyopop, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86719-030-5 .
• Störtebeker. (Text: Patrick Wirbeleit), Carlsen Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-551-77531-1 .
• Cartoon map Hedwig-Holzbein. Flying Kiwi, 2000, ISBN 3-926055-13-8 .
• WOA Heroes: faster, harder, louder! 2nd Edition. Flying Kiwi Media, Dollerup 2014, ISBN 978-3-940989-16-1 .
• The three ??? Kids - beach pirates. (Text: Ulf Blanck ) Kosmos-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-440-12633-2 .
• The three ??? Kids - diamond robbery. (Text: Boris Pfeiffer ) Kosmos-Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-440-15829-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kim Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Kim Schmidt
• Kim's forum for comic artists
• YouTube channel Kim Schmidt
• Wikipedia: fact or fiction? - Comic artist Kim Schmidt (video)