Zwerchfell Verlag

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The Zwerchfell Verlag is a comic publisher based in Hamburg , which was founded in 1988 by the television technician and comic artist Christian Heesch .

History and program

1988 to 1999

Since it was founded, almost exclusively works by German comic authors have been published . Zwerchfell sees itself as a comic publisher, which on the one hand promotes new, up-and-coming talent and on the other hand gives already known comic stars the opportunity to carry out their own projects.

Stylistically, the comics published in the first ten years of the company's existence are mainly to be found in the fun and semi-fun area, but tend more towards American-style funny comics such as MAD , PANIC or the parodies of Fred Hembeck than towards the classic Franco-Belgian comic . In the later years more realistic comics were added, and the narrative range also opened up.

First releases were the album series Heroes of the Black Lagoon (by Herod & EmdE ) and the anthology HIT IT! . The publisher's few licensed publications also date from this period, such as an album by the French Martial ( Erbsenerwin ), books by the Finns Wallu ( Chauvinist ) and Rauli Nordberg ( Redneck ). A productive period began for Zwerchfell Verlag in the early 1990s. Artists such as Isabel Kreitz (the Ralf series), Haggi ( The Solution from Kringeln ), Haimo Kinzler ( Wüttner , Krigstein ) and the Dinter Bros. ( Stefan , Jan and Matthias Dinter ) ( Die kleine Mutterficker ) published their comics at the publisher. Stephan Katz from the artist couple Katz & Goldt published his debut, Electric Carrot . In 1997 Eckart Breitschuh joined with the crime series Wanda Caramba . His wife Lorraine Flack designed the publisher's website.

Since 2000

From 2000 new draftsmen joined the publisher. Naomi Fearn, for example, continued her autobiographical series Zuckerfisch bei Zwerchfell, which she started at Ehapa Verlag . At the same time, Sascha Thaus' agent thriller The Cosmopolitan: Scum , a realistic drawn comic with a soundtrack by the band Mörser, and Paul Hoppe's Die Schlange , an all-ages comic without words. In the summer of 2003, Zwerchfell Verlag organized the “Monsters of Comics” tour through eight cities in the Federal Republic to present the new cartoonists to the public with book signing sessions and parties.

Since 2003, other young artists such as Christopher Tauber with Disco Amore , Katrin Baumgärtner with MK: Mundkopf and Roggmann & Ferreira with Daniel & Oleg have joined the Zwerchfell Verlag. At the same time, older series like Krigstein were continued, while Zuckerfisch , Grimm and Die Kleine Mutterficker continue unchanged.

In 2009 Christopher Tauber and Stefan Dinter took over the management of the publishing house.

In 2014 the publisher entered into a cooperation with Panini for the first time . Affected were the two most successful titles at the time, according to their own statements, Die Toten and Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof , which, due to the possibilities of a small publisher, had to be reprinted too often and are now only edited by Zwerchfell.

Awards

Several comic series from the Hamburg program have received the ICOM Independent Comic Prize , in 1998 the publisher won the Max and Moritz Prize for the best German in-house production for Haimo Kinzler's series Wüttner . Wittek published his series Bizarr Bazar and received a commendation at the fourth ICOM Independent Comic Prize. The sub-publisher Z2 , which was launched with the series Intravenös by Nightfall Studios ( Düsseldorf ), was discontinued after its end. Of the four-part series Held by Felix " Flix " Görmann, only the first volume to receive the ICOM Independent Comic Prize was published by Zwerchfell Verlag, the series was later published as a general paperback by Carlsen Verlag .

List:

  • ICOM Independent Comic Prize 1996 for Knurf. Hero of the Green Hell by Dinter Bros
  • Max and Moritz Prize 1998 for Wüttner from Haimo Kinzler
  • ICOM special prize of the jury 2000 for the Zwerchfell Verlag
  • ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2001 for Wanda Caramba by Eckart Breitschuh
  • ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2002 for GRIMM 3: Fitchers Vogel
  • ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2002 for Old Women by Tim Dinter
  • ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2003 for Held von Flix
  • ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2007 for Sugar Fish by Naomi Fearn
  • ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2009 for Der Schicksalsgnom by Bastian Baier and Robert Mühlich
  • ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2011 for Die Toten 1 + 2 by Stefan Dinter and Christopher Tauber
  • ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2013 for Maike Plenzke's lunch break in bed stories
  • ICOM Special Jury Prize for a remarkable 2015 comic book for Oh, that's it ?! by Martina Schradi
  • ICOM Independent Comic Award in the category Outstanding Scenario 2016 The rejection of Lukas Kummer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.u-comix.de/2013/04/jan-dinter/
  2. ↑ The thing with Panini. Zwerchfell Verlag, accessed on May 13, 2014 .