Gerhard Seyfried (born March 15, 1948) is a German

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cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

, and writer. One of the most popular German

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artists, he won the

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in 1990.

Working method

With Flucht aus Berlin (1989/90) he changed his drawing style and switched from the "scurrying line that curls around the tiniest little things" (F.W. Bernstein)Martin Frenzel:
Ausstellungen. Die Wimmelbilder-Welten des Gerhard Seyfried: Harmonian Anarchy vom Feinsten.
' In: ''comicoskop.com'', September 2015. to ligne claire. In the meantime, he uses the computer to color his figures: "I draw with pencil, then trace it with ink, but no longer color by hand.Plutonia Plarre:
„Die Grünen werden mir unheimlich“.
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-Berlin'', 24. September 2017, Interview. That's too expensive and too toxic." His colleague Ziska judged, "He's very precise and an incredibly good technician." Bernd Drücke:
NATO raus aus dem schwarzen Afghanen!
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'', Oktober 2007, Nr. 322, Interview mit Gerhard Seyfried und Ziska Riemann. When he works alone on a new comic book, he does without a "storyboard," i.e., a visualized scene book, and relies entirely on his spontaneous intuition. Only in the case of the comic albums that were created together with Ziska was a storyboard developed jointly. When writing his historical novels, on the other hand, he first reconstructs the "framework of historical events."Natalie Tenberg:
Gerhard Seyfried wird 60: „Ich sage nicht, Bullen seien Schweine“.
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'', 15. März 2008, Interview. To do this, however, he does not limit himself to the historical-scientific secondary literature, but researches archives for original documents and primary sources. Old photographs are also helpful to him, since he can "glean a vast amount of stuff from them."Natalie Tenberg:
Gerhard Seyfried wird 60: „Ich sage nicht, Bullen seien Schweine“.
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'', 15. März 2008, Interview. Only at the end of the research does he connect the context of the events with fictional characters, who act primarily as observers. N.N.:
Jenseits von Kreuzberg liegt Afrika.
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German cartoonists German comics artists Living people 1948 births {{Germany-artist-stub