Moga Mobo

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MOGA MOBO is an artist group that has already published over 100 issues of the comic magazine of the same name . Members of the group are Titus Ackermann , Jonas Greulich and Thomas Gronle .

MOGA MOBO's approach is to make comics accessible to a wide audience. The magazine is free of charge and financed exclusively through advertising. The entire edition is distributed in pubs, cinemas and clubs in Berlin and Stuttgart and in selected comic shops nationwide.

history

The comic book Moga Mobo was founded in Stuttgart in 1994 and initially appeared (issues 1-12) with a monthly circulation of 10,000 copies in A4 format and exclusively black and white comic contributions.

Issues 13–15 appeared in Stuttgart and Vienna , in collaboration with the Viennese magazine Mixer. Due to artistic differences of opinion, the collaboration ended after three editions.

At this point in time, only Sven Abel, Jonas Greulich and Titus Ackermann were left of the original eight founding members. They decided to relaunch the magazine. With the number 16 in autumn 1997, they fundamentally changed the concept and appearance of Moga Mobo. The circulation was increased to 20,000 and from then on the issues appeared with a constantly changing subject and format. The independence from market constraints allowed the three artists to freely experiment with form and content, ranging from pure entertainment to political issues.

While Moga Mobo still had a strong semi-professional fanzine character in the early years , the new concept quickly turned the magazine into an artistically sophisticated comic magazine . This was rewarded in 2002 with the Max and Moritz Prize for the best German comic book publication (Issue 86 - Masterpieces of World Literature).

Between 1999 and 2001 the editors of Moga Mobo relocated to Berlin . Since then, the magazine has been published in Stuttgart and Berlin and nationwide in selected comic and book shops.

In the meantime, Thomas Gronle had joined the group. A short time later, Sven Abel left the magazine.

In the following years, the three Moga-Mobo artists expanded their forms of expression to include exhibition stands, workshops, exhibition concepts and numerous other cross-media activities.

In 2006, in collaboration with the Japanese artist group NOU NOU HAU, the exhibition Kugelblitz was created in Tokyo . It was financed by the Goethe-Institut and the Federal Cultural Foundation as part of the "Germany in Japan" year and then shown at the Foreign Office in Berlin and then went on a tour of Germany. In addition, a full-color exhibition catalog of over 200 pages was published.

In 2008 the group's artists traveled to Havana to work on an edition with Cuban draftsmen. During their stay, Fidel Castro resigned from office. The experiences of the trip in the island state were published as "Moga Mobos aventuras en Cuba".

In 2012 the Moga-Mobo makers, again financed by the Goethe-Institut, developed the comic blog Morgenstadt. Based on a concept by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft , 14 illustrators from South Korea , Taiwan , the People's Republic of China and Japan published stories on the topic of sustainability over two years . The group then developed the 3D installation Morgenstadt, which was shown in Taipei, Seoul and other exhibition locations. The contributions have been summarized in an extensive book of the same name.

In the same year Moga Mobo organized the "Comic-Clash" together with the comic magazine Epidermophytie. In over 20 publications - some of which were founded exclusively for the Comic Clash - over 100 comic artists competed against each other in this ultimate competition between comic magazines. The highlight of the action was an artists' village and live competitions in various disciplines at the 15th Erlangen Comic Salon .

In 2014, to mark the 20th anniversary of Moga Mobo, issue 111 was published, in which the editors processed their versions of the publisher's history as comic stories in three separate issues.

Titus Ackermann, Jonas Greulich and Thomas Gronle work alongside their work as cartoonists and publishers in the Moga Mobo Studios as freelancers in the areas of illustration , animation and game design for clients such as Deutsche Bahn , KIKA and the German Bundestag .

editor

  • 1994–1996 Christof Ruoss
  • 1996–2002 Sven Abel & Jonas Greulich
  • since 2002 Titus Ackermann, Jonas Greulich and Thomas Gronle

Draftsman (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exhibition - Moga Mobo gives courage. Lars von Thörne. Daily mirror. August 14, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  2. ^ Federal Foreign Office - press releases. Federal Foreign Office website, April 5, 2006. Accessed November 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ Morgenstadt Blog / Goethe-Institut Website Goethe-Institut. Retrieved November 12, 2015.