Tobi Dahmen

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Tobias Dahmen (born March 24, 1971 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German comic writer , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

Tobi Dahmen grew up in Wesel . As a student he began, Comics drawing. At the age of 16 he also got to know the Mod subculture, to which he has remained connected to this day. Since then, he has designed numerous flyers for scene parties and allnighters , on which he put up a time himself as part of the Kuschelmods -DJ collective.

Dahmen moved to Düsseldorf in 1991 , where he studied visual communication with a focus on illustration at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences . In 1997 he graduated from there with his thesis Poetry And All That Jazz , an illustrated book about the beat poet Jack Kerouac and the demi-world of the American jazz clubs . He lived and worked in Düsseldorf until 2008 and then moved to the Netherlands , to Utrecht , where he has since continued to work as a comic artist and illustrator for advertising agencies, press and publishers. The first commissioned work as a comic artist was the Scoot Riders series for the motor scooter magazine Motoretta (published in 2003 as an anthology). In 1998 he became a member of the artist group Die Tapezisten . In 1999 he founded the independent comic project Herrensahne together with other young cartoonists, including Leo Leowald and Roman Klonek . The project won the ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2005 as "Best Fanzine ".

Tobi Dahmen won the ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2008 in the category “Best short comic 'REALISTIC'” for his comic prohibited area .

In 2011 he started his mostly autobiographical webcomic Fahrradmod , which in 2011 came in second place in the “ Sondermann Webcomic Award ” at the Frankfurt Book Fair . In 2015 his graphic novel Fahrradmod based on it was published by Carlsen Verlag , for which he received the Rudolph Dirks Award for graphic literature the following year in the category "Germany - Best Scenario" .

Comics (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Tobi Dahmen in: Fahrradmod , Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2015, p 473
  2. ↑ Tobi Dahmens' biography in: Scoot Riders , Motoretta Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Recklinghausen 2003, p. 4
  3. ↑ Short Biography Tobi Dahmen on the website of the Carlsen publishing house , accessed on October 2, 2015
  4. ↑ Short biography on the Tobi Dahmens website ( memento of the original from October 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 2, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tobidahmen.de
personal data
SURNAME Dahmen, Tobi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dahmen, Tobias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comic author, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , Germany