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The danish genius Hans Christian Andersen wrote this epigrammatic 

truth about stock in his poetry fairy tale "Das hässliche junge Entlein".

He suffered from mean birth all his life.

Andersen's Fairy Tales were already published 1875 

in Leipzig, Germany.

Even so I would like to substitute the german text 

in the speech bubble by danish text. 

Maybe Henrik Drescher or Adrian could help me.

C.Pom

Friendly Dragons

The collection of monsters is growing,

at the moment inspiration is coming from

old prints - tatzlwurms, harpyies and galleytrots*.

I'm now thinking about taking a look

at classical movie monsters. I don't like Godzilla

and his equals, but it would be a nice challenge

to make a humoristic interpretation.

(* please ask if you don't know what it means.)

Regards,

Boris

Hello back

Hello my dear aerienners,
after a longer break I am back now and happy to be with you again. I start on the blog with a ceramic I did for myself. I like this material.
It is really great to make things that last . Sand and glas.
Hugs and greetings IB

Robert Johnson again

Now I've finished my Robert Johnson illustration (here‘s the preparing pencildrawing) - with an accompanying text by Carl-Ludwig Reichert.

Nice Weekend
Dieter

Die ganze Welt und ein Paar neue Schlittschuhe

Happy new year to all of you
and I wish your deepest dreams come true.

c.pom

Lazy Sunday - Work in progress

Recently I did this pencil drawing as part of a new bookproject. I used some details of an old photography showing legendary Bernd Witthüser smoking, relaxing...

- Dieter

Happy New Year in the Zoo

birdie front

birdie backside

Dear Friends and "Kollegen",

I hope this year will start off lighter than the last one ended.

My Computer still is in the garage. Repair shop, that is.

Befor x-mass I was double diseased at once.

I had no contact with the digital world at all except

at office, where I spend most of my time latetly.

Therefore I will post some work I did for the letterpress-cards-firm

I work for. And because my very best friends are 9 week old parents,

I decided to show some of the babycard layouts I made last year.

MORE TIME FOR ILLUSTRATION is my only new year's pledge.

Cheers,

Cléo

giraffe front

giraffe inside

whale front

squirrel front

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

First of all a happy 2011! This is the year of the hare (in the chinese calendar), nevertheless I started 2011 with the drawing of another favourite animal of mine.

To celebrate the beginning of the new year german newspaper TAZ invited 20 writers and 20 artists (including also Detlev Beck, Lars Henkel, Doro Huber, Vitali Konstantinov, Rinah Lang, Henning Wagenbreth) to illuminate their special view on our present time. An optimistic view under the slogan „Schön, hier zu sein“.

Greets, Dieter

THREE LITTLE GUYS

Once again a fine illustration job,

for a belgian magazine with a text by Claude Raucy.

Boris

In Memoriam: Don Van Vliet (1941-2010)

The enigmatic musician and artist Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart died last Fryday from complications of multiple sclerosis.

Captain Beeheart and his Magic Band drew attention in the 1960s with their special mixture of free jazz, psychedelia, delta blues and rock & roll combined with odd rhythms and absurdist lyrics. 1969 saw the release of the Captains best known album, Trout Mask Replica, which was produced by his childhood friend Frank Zappa, today regarded as a groundbreaking art-rock masterpiece. His music has always been more influential - especially on punk and new wave - than popular. At the early 80‘s Van Vliet retired from performing to devote himself to painting and drawing

„I thought Trout Mask Replica was the greatest album ever made - and I still do.“ Matt Groening

See some drawings of our graphic novel project „The Adventures of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band“, here, here and there.

- Dieter

Perfume bottles for Weekend Knack

Some time ago I had an assignment for the

important Belgian lifestyle magazine: Weekend Knack

I made 28 small illustrations of perfume bottles!

They used it for the cover too!

Woehaa!!!   :)

greetz,

Leen

summary of 'Single Covers' in Brugge

Hi,

My exhibition 'Single Covers' in Brugge is already a few months over.

 I'm actually preparing my next exhibition.

Between all those busy times I would forget to post some stuff.

So here are some pictures. :)

I made also an exclusive print for this exhibition.

It shows Marvin Gaye in Ostend. 

Light Eaters and Pidgin German - mare #83

Does anyone knew that the southpacific island of Samoa was part of the former german empire? Indeed! At the beginning of the 20th century, the Mount Kilimanjaro, the big Victoria Sea, the diamant mines of today Southwest Africa, some smaller landscapes around chinese town Tsingtau and a big part of New Guinea belonged to the kingdom of the bizarre Wilhelm II. The history of german colonies came abruptly to an end with World War I.

The December issue of mare-magazin, # 83, takes a closer look on some special items of this part of german history. Very exiting is the story of early german dropouts, based on the idyllic island Kabakon. There, the disciples around charismatic franconian pharmacist August Engelhardt decided exclusively to feed on coconuts. But their last and ultimative aim was to abstain any earthly food and live only on the absorption of light!

Almost lost and forgotten are some special colonial language variations - the mixture of German with native african speech and, very exotic, a special kind of Pidgin German, only spoken in one part of the Bismark Archipel.

The magazin asked me to make a double-paged map of those former colonies. So I did it with prominent help of an ancient book, bougth years ago at a southgerman flee market: Rudolf Schmidt's Bayrischer Schulatlas, 1910.

- Dieter

What I´ve been doing (between doing nothing)

Hi everybody!

It´s been quite a long time since my last blog post,

so let´s jump right in without further ado!

I´ve been designing the cover for the next issue

of Dolor Magazine, published by the nice

Michael Meier at Rotopol, which is about 90% finished. 

I did a little cheesy Photoshop rendering of how

it might look like when it´s printed. I chose these

nice wooden planks as a background, so if you´re

going to spend a sunny day at a nice pond somewhere

it might end up looking exactly like in this picture.

Once this is out I´ll let you know right here!

Going from fake wood backgrounds to real wood backgrounds,

next up is my new sticker set which has just been released.

My mexian friend Inés, aka the one half of 

Café con leche asked me if I wanted

to contribute to their fantastic line of stickers,

which, naturally, I did. You can check them

out as well as order them here.

I also started dipping my toes into other fields

of illustration, and because I can´t just draw

girls with tattoos all day long I decided to try

out some handlettering.

These are great fun and a good way for me to

stay busy even when I´m taking a break from

my bigger projects.

Me as a very small kid. Just thought I´d

throw that in here. I actually still have this wooden
toy snail, though the paint on its wheels is worn down.
I must have dragged this thing around with me for
quite some time.

Anyways, that´s it for now, see you later!

Cheers,

Frederik.

Peking Hotel

000x planed its seventeens number "Peking Hotel".

I designed several postcards with a poem of Li Bo "Selbstvergessenheit"

or in general with the theme of peace and harmony.

The Swiss 000x- team chose a decorative motive.

Perhaps too many designers took the chance and present something political?

We will see in december.

c.pom

Thank you for visiting! ♥

So the bookfair is over already, and we had a great

time again, meeting lots of new people, old friends

and even some artists from our own group

that have never seen each other before - 

given that our members come from

all over Germany and Belgium.

So thank all of you wonderful people

for dropping by, and if you missed it, don´t

worry: We´re going to go next year

for sure, with even more new stuff!

Cheers,

Your Poste Aérienne-Team.

The King of Cool

Barbara (former Minty) McQueen, has compiled a book about her time with husband Steve McQueen. The legendary actor, well known for a lot of popular movie classics like „The Magnificent Seven“, „Bulitt“, „The Getaway“ or „Papillon“ and his passion for any kind of motor-races, died 30 years ago. This report about his last years, living withdrawn together with his third wife Barbara in rural environment, offers some really new and unexpected views on the King Of Cool. In my opinion really „autumn-reading-stuff“.

I did two doublepaged illustrations, one as an intro the other at the end of the book. Today my free copies came by mail and I was very pleased about. Great bookdesign, rare photographies, fine printing.

The book is now out, published by Ankerherz under the title „Mein McQueen“.

Greets, Dieter