War and Peas

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War and Peas is a comic strip by the German duo Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz . The strips were launched in 2011 as an English-language webcomic and have also been available in book form since 2020.

content

The comic presents bizarre everyday stories and grotesque phantasms with surprising, black-humored punchlines. There are talking animals, objects and natural phenomena as well as recurring figures such as the grim reaper, a ghost, a robot and a witch. The drawing was highly abstracted and colored flat, so human figures usually only appear with a circular head with point eyes and stylized hairstyle and clothing.

Recurring characters

  • Bitch witch ( Slutty Witch ): Promiscuous and fortified Witch
  • Godfather Death ( Grim Reaper ): Reaper
  • Robot ( Robot ): Emotional Robots
  • Officer McSexy: Incompetent, muscular cop
  • Gary: Ghost of a deceased child
  • Bob & Bob: Gay couple
  • Lord Nibbles: Witch's Cat
  • Dog ( Dog ): All the time its owner changing dog

publication

Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz met while studying at the HBK Saar . Both were characterized by American and British humor. The comic strips, created with Photoshop and posted on Sundays, became known from 2011 on their own website as well as on Facebook , Twitter and Reddit ; on Instagram they reached over 780,000 followers. Through a contact through the US illustrator Nick Seluk, the first book was published in 2020 by the US publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing . This was followed by a German-language version, translated by Claudia Kern , at Panini .

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comic fans love War and Peas at dw.com
  2. ↑ Comfor reading recommendations 2017 at comicgesellschaft.de
  3. ↑ punchlines Made in Germany at tagesspiegel.de
  4. ↑ Comedy is truth and pain , Saarbrücker Zeitung Kultur, 1/2. August 2020
  5. ↑ War and Peas 1: From Witches and People at comic-community.net