René Lehner

René Lehner (born April 3, 1955 in Zurich ) is a Swiss cartoonist , comic artist and author of books for young people. His first cartoon appeared in a Swiss newspaper (SPORT) in 1972.

In 1974, together with Andreas C. Knigge and Thilo Rex, he founded the comic trade magazine Comixene , which is still published today and deals with the subject of comics. In 1981 he left the magazine, emigrated to Spain and devoted himself only to drawing comics. Various books and comic contributions have appeared. In 1986 he moved his studio back to Zurich and began drawing comic strips for daily newspapers. The daily comic series Bill Body and the weekly series Willy and Zoo Klamauk ( Züri Zoo ) were created. Over the years his strips have appeared regularly in over fifty newspapers and magazines in various European countries as far as Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Iceland. In 1987 he started the Gabi Grün series for WWF Switzerland .

In 1988 he moved on to Hamburg - at that time the comic capital of German-speaking countries. In addition to his newspaper comics, he created new books and cartoons, eighty half-hour cartoons with his character Bill Body and countless merchandising articles. In 1990 he moved back to Switzerland. Further series such as Peach Weber or the erotic daily series Freudendorf were created for the Swiss tabloid Blick and in 1991 he was one of the founding members of the Lucerne comic festival Fumetto . In 2008 his first youth novel Help from the Future was published and in 2009 he drew his first comic series just for the Internet: Don Caneloni . It was followed by Fred Flamingo . In 2016 his first children's book, Zwerg Stolperli, was published based on a text by Peach Weber. Since 2015 Rene Lehner has also been the publisher and editor-in-chief of the comic magazine Comixene .

Publications

Rene 1989; Comic album for adults; Volksverlag, Linden
Blake 074 ; 1983; after a text by P. Porc; Comic Forum , Vienna
Lies, stomach aches and crooks ; 1985; SJW-Verlag, Zurich
Fred Flamingo ; 1987; SJW-Verlag, Zurich
Oscuro ; 1986; Comic crime thriller for adults; Comic Forum, Vienna
Bill Body, The Horror of Sport! ; 1989; Goldmann Publishing House
Bill Body, bad luck for athletes! ; Goldmann Publishing House
Bill Body, don't let it show! ; Goldmann Publishing House
Bill Body, please don't shoot the goalkeeper! ; 1990; Ehapa publishing house
Bill Body, is it you, Boris? ; 1991; Heyne mini paperback
Bill Body, the ball is round ; 1992; Heyne mini paperback
Willy, Best before: See ground ; 1990; Carlsen Publishing House
Willy, suddenly topless ; 1991; Carlsen Publishing House
Fred Flamingo, The Citrus Rebels ; 1990; Youth comic (text) together with Nihat Kesen (picture), published in Fix and Foxi
Fred Flamingo, The Secret of the Invisible ; 1991; Carlsen Publishing House
Fred Flamingo, Planet of the Immortals ; 1992; Carlsen Publishing House
In need of fresh milk? ; 1991; Cartoons; Bread roll
Love, lust and critters ; 1992; Cartoons; Bread roll
Peach Weber, nothing like comics ; 1993; Bread roll
Gabi Grün, The Horn of the Rhinos ; 1995; WWF Switzerland
Comic strip collection ; 1998; 4 issues of the series Bill Body, Freudendorf and Zoo Klamauk
Tim Moebius - Help from the Future ; 2008; Youth novel
Oscuro and Other Stories ; 2009; Shaker Media
The lifesaver ; 2012; Comix magazine
Dwarf stumbling blocks ; 2016; Holper & Stolper Verlag
Dwarf Stolperli and the broken wand ; 2017; Holper & Stolper Verlag

Books together with other authors

Wanted ; 1983; Bread roll
Besemmelt! ; 1984; Bread roll
Comics of the month ; 1986; TV DRS
Love and be paired! ; 1991; Eichborn Publishing House
Everything in the sack! ; 1991; Bread roll
Nautical yarn ; 1993; Carlsen Publishing House
Pirate stories ; 1994; Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk SJW
Office Cheerful ; 1994; Zurich office
Thanks, Carl Barks ; 2001; Egmont publishing house
A40 cartoons ; 2010; Cartoon capital
Especially now! ; 2010; German Caricature Award
Hugh! Winnetou ; 2011; Edition 52
Cartoons for Loriot ; 2012; Lappan publishing house
Nasty festival ; 2012; Lappan publishing house
No more fun! ; 2012; German Caricature Award
Forbidden! ; 2014; Carlsen Publishing House
How sick is that?! ; 2014; German Caricature Award
Retirement cartoons ; 2017; Wooden tree

Comics and cartoons have been published in: Eulenspiegel , Punkt ch , Hamburger Morgenpost , Blick , Berliner Kurier , WAZ , tz Munich, Playboy , Nebelspalter , Bravo , Pop Rocky, Schweizer Illustrierte , Tages-Anzeiger , Züri Tipp, Panda Club WWF, Lucerne Latest News , Baslerstab , Swiss week, Bündner Zeitung , Bündner Tagblatt , WWF Panda-Journal, Aargauer Kurier, Aargauer Woche, Tagblatt Zurich, New Press , TUT, Wiler Zeitung , The Yellow Booklet, Scene Hamburg , Panic, Swiss Sport, Liechtenstein Fatherland , Zurich Express , Schwyzer Woche, St. Galler Nachrichten, Zuger Woche, Bernese Oberland Week, Cosmic, Main Post , Mannheimer Morgen , Münchner Merkur , Sonntag Aktuell , Blesk (Czech Republic), Fräcka Fredag and Karlskrona (Sweden), Katowice, Express Ilustrowany, Warszawa and Jestem Warszawa (Poland), Akyreyri (Iceland), Helsingfors (Finland) and many other newspapers and magazines.

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personal data
SURNAME	Lehner, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss cartoonist, comic artist and author of young books
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich