Leo Leowald

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Leo Leowald (* 1967 in Gummersbach ) is a German comic artist .

Life

After studying visual communication, Leowald provides illustrations for magazines and newspapers (including taz , Spex , Titanic and Jungle World ). He is a member of the drawing collective Herrensahne (including Tobi Dahmen and Roman Klonek ) and published the weekly comic strip "Zwarwald" on his website from May 15, 2004 to February 16, 2010 as "a kind of James Kochalka from Cologne". This was followed by a break of several months with the occasional new comic strip. Since the end of 2010 the publications have been lively again, new "Zwarwald" drawings are now mostly appearing several times a week.

Leowald's works take up anecdotes, observations and biographical material, but can also take the form of purely graphic picture narrations or even metafictional games of reference. Leowald also experiments with works by befriended comic artists or authors (for example Ralph Ruthe or Flix ), series (within the series, for example the "Tant" cycle) or multimedia, intertextual mixed forms between comics and other media.

Leowald's graphic works are in the tradition of the New Frankfurt School (he names FK Waechter , Rattelschneck and Bernd Pfarr as influencers), the narrative style and the processing of biographical and observed material are reminiscent of Max Goldt's columns . Leowald himself calls his work " kafkaeske Ulks", his style "baroque".

Leo Leowald lives and works in Cologne.

Works

  • 2. In your face. Reprodukt, Berlin 2005
  • Elementary animals. Reprodukt, Berlin 2006
  • Rough manners. Reprodukt, Berlin 2008
  • The travel toothbrush. Exceptional publisher, Hamburg 2008
  • Stop dance Reprodukt, Berlin 2011
  • The i in Zurich: a tourist guide. Edition Moderne, Zurich 2014. ISBN 978-3037311264 .

Children's book series Gustav (with Haimo Kinzler )

  • Gustav and Albo from Aldebaran. Stromboli, Cologne 2009
  • Gustav and the professor. Stromboli, Cologne 2009
  • ... Only at home they didn't believe a word of Gustav . Stromboli, Cologne 2014

reception

Andreas Platthaus certified Leowald's children's book Gustav und Albo vom Aldebaran (2009) that it could be a "very big series", the narrative tone was "short and succinct", the graphic implementation "clear and lovable".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.zwarwald.de
  2. ↑ www.comicologie.de ( Memento of the original dated August 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.comicologie.de
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  8. ↑ www.zwarwald.de
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  11. ↑ www.comicradioshow.com
  12. ↑ cf. the discussion of the term "column" in Goldt's work, for example in a book called Zimbo (Hamburg 2009)
  13. ↑ www.comicradioshow.com
  14. ↑ ibid.
  15. ^ Andreas Platthaus: Detour to the dinosaur country. In: FAZ.net . September 14, 2009, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  16. ↑ ibid.
personal data
SURNAME Leowald, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwarwald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach