Twisted is back!

My webcomic Twisted is back. The independent, dark comic features a lot of pitch black humor and crimson red commentary and centers around 4 dysfunctional Ladies.

I update it Tuesdays. I am deeply enjoying working on this, even though that style is not marketable. Comics always force me to learn a lot of stuff I could study.

If you enjoy black comedy, are a fan of splatter and drama, some noir and crime, conspiracy, feel invited to follow the ongoing story on http://www.twistedcomic.net (English) or http://www.twistedcomic.de (German)

I started the story in 2001 through 2004, reworked the script and redrew it until 2007 and applied at a publisher, who never wrote back. Since I have this story burning in me and finished in rough script, I need to get it out. Luckily, the web let's me play around with some animation and alternative formats and presentations. 

Book 1 (first 24 pages) are from 2007. Starting with book 2, you will see pages from 2013.

Welcome! And not for kids ; )

the calendar of 2013

First of all, I started a facebook page just about my artworks and appreciate every follower. There I organize news and projects:
Gabrielarts on Facebook

This week I finished a calendar for 2013. I decided to do one quite late - to be precise 2 weeks ago, because I really missed drawing my dates onto the wall and did not find a calendar I liked. Since this is so late, I offer the print-file as a free download.

It's A2 and organized in weeks, with the summer months occupied by tentacly goodness - as it should be.

>> print file (9.3MB) <<


2013 Calendar von Gabriel deVue steht unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung-Nicht-kommerziell 3.0 Unported Lizenz. )
you can use and print this file as often as you want and apply your individual changes, but please do not cut away the (small) signature or make money of this.

Enjoy : )

BUND-comic competition finalists

I love working with Maren Marmulla. Luckily, we found out last minute about the competition of the BUND (Friends of Earth, Germany). The task was to make sailors aware of the problems of sea pollution.

Read the 3 page PDF.

We did not win but were honored as one of the best entries. Thank you for this competition, and thanks to Maren again for the great collaboration. It's always fun!

Klick HERE to read the comic (PDF),

Klick HERE to see the other comics.

Art prints

Greetings dear visitors!

I have been asked repeatedly for art prints. My goal was to offer high quality prints on very good paper and the closest possible match to the original colors for a good price, so that everybody might be able to afford them. These are the three that made it into a first edition:

Art Print Set

I put them up in singles and in a package over at my dawanda store. Every image is numbered (the first edition has 10 of each image) and signed. If you wish for a personal dedication, just tell me. They come at 10 Euro and 25 Euro combined and are A3. I send them in an cardboard A3 envelope so the images are not rolled or folded. Shipping is 4-5 Euro.

I hope, i did not miscalculate international shipping because for A3 Maxi Letter it seems to be cheaper internationally.

Have a nice day!

Geheimnisvolle Bibliotheken

In February I finished the last strokes on a dear and fun project: An 8 pages short comic for "Geheimnisvolle Bibliotheken" Mysterious Libraries. A dark fantasy collection by Carolin Gmyrek, featuring 23 short stories and all together 3 comics. I really liked the idea to weave the comics into the prose. The titles of the comics read one sentence together. My word was "Schweigend" being silent.


It's a small, viciously inked story about a post apocalyptic library and its last inhabitant. I love having the last "word" in this 400pages strong book.
Thank you very much for asking me and giving me the opportunity to tell a story.
Available on Amazon. (German)

Extra Credits ep. 99 - Video

Yay, I was very lucky to work on another episode of Extra Credits. Visit it over at the Penny Arcade TV:

Visit this Blog Entry for notes on the references and a collection of some of the drawings from the episode. The Hero's Journey (pt 2) was a great topic to pop-culture-reference my brains onto the canvas. Thank you : )

Public Diploma Presentation

Greetings!

I am Jack's calm little center of jo... ARRRGHGG! Finally, my diploma presentation is drawing near.

I will present my findings on research about interactive music videos and the very practical approach on a project by the band Van Canto next week on:

Tue, 10th of July, 13:00h 
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Pappelallee 8–9 
Building 5, Room 3.16

This is a public presentation. I hereby want to extend my invitations to you. You will get to see: 5 Minutes of an upcoming Van Canto Music Video, 30 Minutes of me babbling and shaking and being supremely nice and witty....... and a presentation of an interactive prototype. I will talk about interactive music videos and the factors that seem to be motivating for an audiences. If anybody makes his way to Potsdam - i would be very happy, if you say hi! after the presentation.

A first trailer was already announced:

I am so excited!
gab

Exhibition invitation!

Busy Busy Busy! But not busy enough to forget to tell you the details!

On the 25th of February at 20:00 my first solo exhibition will open and you are invited : )
I printed this invitation on beautiful linnen-structured paper to impress everyone make it feel really nice.
If you cannot make it to the exhibition, the gallery is open wed - sat starting from 20:00.

There are some posters and buttons available. I will not be selling paintings. But the buttons are originally hand-colored, so there are miniature originals ; )

Thank you for the well wishes!

And, btw, the local magazine "Blicklicht" chose one of my artworks as their cover.

Further information about the exhibition. 

Cultural Magazine "Blicklicht"

Exhibition!

Dear readers,

I am very happy to announce an exhibition in the Gallery "Fango" in Cottbus (by Berlin), Germany. The solo-exhibition focuses on my graphic work that centers around psychic disorders and translations of strong feelings. I do not plan on showing comic works, but comic lovers, ink fetishists and tattoo fans are probably the right target. Ach, heck, I don't really understand, what my "target audience" is. So be it - if you enjoy intricate, detailed artwork, searching for clues and like to see my artwork in person and on paper, feel very, very invited.

It opens on the 25th of February and will run for about a month. The exact opening hour and the program for the vernissage will follow soon. I am happy for every friendly face to turn up and say hi! I will probably be too excited to function rationally - maybe seeing me blabber incoherently is also worth a visit.

There will be some limited high quality prints to purchase and some posters. Galerie Fango also host concerts and a coffee shop.

Announcement on the Fango Homepage

VanCanto Poster!

Hey Folks!

I am very proud to present (a very small!) version of the Poster I did for the special Edition for the new VanCanto Album - Break the Silence. It's out today!

I illustrated the very complex Song "A Storm to Come", circling around the Peer Gynth topic in a modernized Version.

(click to see a detail)

The poster is on the back of the booklet, carefully crafted that no fold will obstruct any character's head. Boy, that was a challenge and I enjoyed it!
Check out their Music. They do acapella! Metal! Seriously. And they can do that life!

And stay tuned, to hear more about the Peer Returns Project!

Extra Credits Video

I had the very great honor to create pictures for one episode of Extra Credits, a weekly webshow now with Penny Arcade TV.

(Was temporarily unavailable. Now back online!)

Read the whole process and more about the show in the next blogentry here.

The gab-shop!

Major stuff is happening!

First of all: I passed my final test before the diploma way better than I expected. I rarely heard so many good advices and had the impression, that the examining professors really, really got me. It was actually fun! Well, who would have thought after all those sleepless nights and bad starts.

But - alas! - I present to you: My webshop at DaWanda.

DaWanda is a shopportal for selfmade stuff. I wondered, how I should handle selling my Calendars and this was the Solution. Aaand, finally, my dusty buttons got a new polish and i look forward to update the shop.

Feel very invited to check it out.
Thank you!

gab

Exhibition "Apocalypse"

Hey folks!

Gallery Fango hosted an exhibition / happening titled "Apocalypse" together with some other venues in Cottbus, Germany. I was happy to exhibit one of my drawings.

Find more info on the Galleries Homepage here .

Collection of Publications I

Dear Readers,

I am very excited about working on a project, giving an interview or participating in exhibitions. So excited, that I usually forget to document it later.

I will from here on collect publications, exhibitions and interviews.

Starting with:

"200g of ground beef" : Worked as editor and participated with the story "rats"  (Publisher: Schwarzer Turm)

Subway to Sally Storybook: One comic "Arche" (Publisher: Schwarzer Turm)

De Bello Britannico - Coloration (Publisher: Feder & Schwert)

Interviews:
PummelDex 2007
Photoshop Creative 2009 (Ausgabe 09/09)

An interactive Christmas Carol

In November 2010 i finished the work on A Christmas Carol for Padworx.

The awesome guys from Padworx made this video with a first version of the Cover that follows along the tracks of the machine that is supposed to also turn pages. The application hit Itunes and made it to the feature page. It was one of the best projects I was allowed to work on so far. Without the help of Maren Marmulla this project would have a lot more sketches and a lot less finished illustrations. There is nothing as motivating as working with people who are also lit up for a project.

Offset-Calendar 2012

I proudly present my 2012 Calendar-Edition, handprinted on an old preflight-offset-machine. They are limited to 60 pieces and I have 40 for sale. They are all unique in color (most of them in green-shades). There are even some in iris-print!




If you are interested: I sell them for 10Euro + Shipping (They will be sent in a rectangular Package for A2-Posters). Write to me at gab(a)gabrielarts(dot)de if you are interested. I will be happy to sign and send you one of the numbered versions as long as they last.

Read the making-of.