Rotopolpress
| Rotopol | |
|---|---|
| legal form | owner-managed |
| Seat | Kassel , Germany |
| management | Rita Fürstenau |
| Branch | Publishing |
| Website | www.rotopol.de |
Rotopolpress is an independent publisher from Kassel with a focus on comics and illustration .
The publishing house was founded in 2007 by Rita Fürstenau, Lisa Röper and Michael Meier, who were students at the Kassel Art College . An office with shop, studio, screen printing workshop and gallery was built at Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 95. The publisher presented itself at the Erlangen Comic Salon , the Hamburg Comic Festival and the Angoulême Festival .
In 2014 two works, Lescheks Flug by Sebastian Stamm and Pimo & Rex by Thomas Wellmann, were awarded the ICOM Independent Comic Prize . In 2018 the publisher received the Hessian Publishing Prize, which was awarded for the first time . In 2020 the publisher received the German Publishing Prize .
authors
- Max Baitinger
- Paula Bulling
- Nick Edwards
- Michel Esselbrugge
- Markus Färber
- Rita Fürstenau
- Kirsten Carina and Ines Christine Geisser ("Kiin")
- Anna Shark
- Lea Heinrich
- Jesse Jacobs
- Carmen José
- Nina Kaun
- Julia Kluge
- Anna Rakhmanko
- Nadine Redlich
- René Rogge
- Isabel Seliger
- Anne Simon
- Alice Socal
- Mikkel summer
- Sebastian Stamm
- Quentin Vijoux
- Thomas Wellmann
- Bruno Winter
- Illustration / Comic Class KHS Kassel
Web links
- Literature by and about Rotopolpress in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- rotopolpress.de
- 10 years of Rotopol. A publisher reinvents comics , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, April 10, 2018 (accessed September 6, 2018)