Nana Yaa Kyere

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Nana Yaa Kyere (born March 28, 1991 ) is a German comic artist . Her works, stylistically based on Japanese comics , have been published as web comics or by various German publishers. Her series Goldfisch was also published internationally.

Career

Kyere attended the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium in Kaarst . Kyere completed her studies in Düsseldorf in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in communication design . She lives and works in Neuss .

Kyere has been fond of drawing since childhood. When Pokémon and other anime series and manga came to Germany, she decided to draw manga-style comics. With the short story Batterie she won the MangaMagie competition in 2008 and was then invited by Stefan Raab to TV total , where she first became known to a broad audience. On eight pages, Batterie tells about a dark-skinned boy who is racially insulted on the train, but ignores him when he puts on his headphones.

In 2010 Knaur Kyeres published the comic Patina for the first time with a publisher. In 2013 a new edition of the volume followed and a continuation at Delfinium Prints. The plot of the series revolves around a sporty, self-loving girl who is drawn into a video game world and experiences adventures in it. In the webcomic High Angle , also published in 2013, Kyere shows how a shōnen manga works and developed a comedy and sports story based on the parody about schoolchildren who practice kite flying as a club sport. Printed in one volume, the story was sold directly at German conventions and distributed by the small publisher Neon Comics. Several volumes of the webcomcis Hockey Homo appeared there , which later became Crushed !! was renamed and also translated into English.

Her series Goldfisch , based on the Japanese shōnen manga, was published in three volumes by Tokyopop from 2016 to 2019 and was awarded the AnimaniA Awards in the category Best Manga National in 2017 and has been translated into two languages.

Working method and style

While Kyere mainly worked with fineliners when she started working on High Angle 2012, she switched to graphics tablet and Photoshop during the series . She had already worked alternately with pencil for Battery and edited or colored it on the computer. For Goldfisch , she worked with pencil on the storyboard and inks by hand, but created sketches, drawings and final versions digitally on scanned storyboard and ink drawings. One of her role models in storytelling and humor is the Japanese illustrator Rumiko Takahashi .

In the 2014 ICOM yearbook, her style is described as dynamic and relaxed, with genre-oriented humor. The Tagesspiegel described the style in the Goldfisch series as "sophisticated and impress [d] with differentiated figures with expressive facial expressions and meticulously executed backgrounds [n] that convey a lot of depth thanks to finely graduated grids". The exact lines are loosened up by chibi inlays, the panel structure is varied and creates “additional dynamism through changing image formats and open frames”.

bibliography

  • Patina (2010, 2014 at Knaur / Delfinium, 2 volumes)
  • What is Elemant Dimenstion? (2013, article in Shounen Phalanx 1 , Delfinium)
  • Goldfisch (2016-2019 at Tokyopop , 3 volumes)
Small publishing house / webcomics
  • High Angle (2013, webcomic and Neon Comics, 1 volume)
  • Brave and Safe (2014 by Neon Comics, 1 volume)
  • Crushed !! (originally Hockey Homo , since 2014, webcomic and with Neon Comics, 4 volumes)
  • MCS * (2015, webcomic)
  • Java Bonds (since 2017, webcomic)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Westdeutsche Zeitung: Neuss: Series of Manga prices for 17-year-old schoolgirls. November 2, 2008, accessed July 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b J-Mag: Topic of the week # 5 (Nana Jaa Kyere) (interview). In: Youtube. J-Mag, June 26, 2013, accessed July 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ RP ONLINE: Neuss: The best mangas are from Neuss. October 26, 2008, accessed July 28, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b Anne Maren Delseit : Independent Manga 2013 Networks and Drawing Miles. ICOM - The Interest Association Comic eV, 2014, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Freetalk (author's comment ) in High Angle Vol. 1. Neon Comics, 2014.
  6. ↑ A. Delseit: AnimaniA Award 2017: The winners. In: AnimaniA. August 9, 2017, accessed June 4, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Nana Yaa Kyere: Goldfisch , Vol. 2nd epilogue. Tokyopop, 2017.
  8. ^ "Goldfish" by Nana Yaa: Goldjunge in Nöten , tagesspiegel.de , October 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kyere, Nana Yaa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic / manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1991