Matz Mainka
Matz Mainka (* 1959 ) is a German illustrator , cartoonist and author.
Life
He studied graphics and illustration in Hamburg . In 1986, he illustrated the cover art for the Hamburg label Weird System published Punk CD Paranoia You Can Dance To .
In August 1991, his first comic album was published by Carlsen Verlag under the title Werwölfe . This is about children who have to fight for their survival shortly after the Second World War . A short time later, Mainka was invited to Japan by the Japanese publisher Kōdansha to design the scenario for an episode of Tsutomu Takahashi's detective series Jiraishin set in Hamburg . The episode was a success (and was also published by Carlsen in German-speaking countries), whereupon the publisher Mainka made a three-month study in Tokyo possible. In Japan he met the Spanish illustrator Ana Juan and began a relationship with her.
After his stay in Japan, the comic artist went to Madrid, where he lives and works today. In 2002 he released the album 1928 - Una Historia de Hamburgo for the Spanish Ponent-Mon publishing house , which the same publisher also published in German in June 2003 under the title 1928 - Eine Hamburger Geschichte . The historical comic is about children who watch the murder of a communist by the National Socialists before the beginning of the Third Reich .
literature
- Christian Moser: Time drawing . Goethe-Institut , issue 02/2004, pp. 56–57
Individual evidence
- ↑ Recordcovers Drawn By Comic Artists - M , accessed June 10, 2017. (English)
- ^ Werewolves in the German Comic Guide
- ↑ 1928 - A Hamburg story in the German Comic Guide
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mainka, Matz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German illustrator, comic artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |