Laska Comix

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Laska is the stage name of Elke Reinhart (* 1967 in Munich) and Gerhard Schlegel (* 1966 in Kaufbeuren). You manage the agency “Laska Grafix für Illustratoren” in Munich, where you work for comics, children's books and advertising.

In 1997 they founded Laska Comix Verlag to publish their own works.

Laska make use of different stylistic devices, partly with an American, partly with Franco-Belgian influence. The wordless comic cactus was mentioned as tip of the month in the American preview magazine. A new version of Struwwelpeter was created in 2005, the album Der Golem was released in 2006, and the album Luzie from Hell in 2007 , after the individual episodes were published in Magic Attack magazine. The last Laska Comix, No. 11 was published in 2014. In 2016 a sticker album was published for the Comicsalon Erlangen, which was illustrated by Laska.

Awards

  • 1998 Honorable mention at the ICOM Independent Comic Prize for Nesmo - The Neuschwanstein Monster
  • 1999 ICOM Independent Comic Prize for Tentakel (Best Independent Comic)
  • 2000 1st place and an award at the Online Comix Award for the flash comic lookup
  • 2002 1st place and an award at the Avatar Award for the film Underground
  • 2003 Cosmonaut Laika (next to "Floralia" by Ulf K.) named at the ICOM Independent Comic Prize for Edition 52 (Best Independent Comic)
  • 2011 PENG! The Munich Comic Prize for special achievements for Munich comic culture for Gerhard Schlegel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ralf König u. a .: Wilhelm Busch and the consequences . ehapa Comic Collection, Cologne 2007, ISBN 9783770431731 , p. 36.